Excon,
I'm just going to let your own video (post #222) debunk your weak attempt at a reply to my commentary (your post #221).
:doh
Wrong.
The only thing it changes is in what I said was thrashing, continuous or otherwise.
Everything else remains the same.
And it certainly does not debunk the substance as to why you were wrong.
Which brings me to...
2) He gave a completely different story to homicide detectives than what he told local police.
I'd be curious to know why Mr. Allen would tell homicide detectives one thing but local police something different (if anything at all since per the interview he didn't tell the police "nothin'".)
And why would that be?
They were afraid to release his information because of the current hostilities in the area.
You do not think that concern continues and obfuscation is in order for his safety?
What matters at this point is the substance of his statements
in the hands of the Prosecutor making the decisions.
Not what he tells a reporter, especially if it is for his own safety.
Furthermore, per the video news clip you provided, the autopsy concluded that there was "no evidence that Mr. Gray hit his head against anything on his own".
And? That doesn't mean he isn't responsible for his own injuries.
But let me ask, given the known conditions, just what do you think could exist to show that?
That's right, it's absence is irrelevant.
I'd be curious to know why Mr. Allen would tell homicide detectives one thing but local police something different (if anything at all since per the interview he didn't tell the police "nothin'".)
His making an irrelevant distinction between Police and homicide was funny. Nevertheless that distinction is meaningless as they are the same police force.
He was interviewed immediately by homicide detectives. So that would have been the information collected and available for the Commissioner to speak about.
And if he said anything to the other Officers, it too would have been available to the Commissioner.
Moreover, per the autopsy Mr. Gray's neck injury was "akin to a injury suffered in a car accident. It needed that amount of force".
:doh
The same force which can happen in a slip and fall.
For all we know he also could have waited for the upcoming stop and rammed his head at that same time.
Something happened in the police van between the time Mr. Gray was picked up but prior to Mr. Allen being picked up . The question is what?
No. The evidence already dispels that.
He was active "up until" the last stop.