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Prisoner in van said Freddie Gray was ‘trying to injure himself,’ document [W:384]

Riot first, ask questions later.

At best you could prove that people jumped the gun.

You could prove that people on the left and the Obama administration are feeding this narrative. " Black Lives matter ", only when there's a assumption that they were murdered by the Police.

Killed by Gang violence ? Nah, nothing to protest about.

Now every inner city is one assumption away from a full blown riot.

As I said to Excon, riots aren't intelligent beasts waiting patiently for data, they are predatory. You can prove that people jumped the gun, but that's pretty much all it would demonstrate.

However, even if true the police are still contributors. They did not restrain him properly in the van and they did not get him medical attention quickly enough. These are even admitted to by the police. Also keep in mind that the other prisoner could not see Gray, he heard him thumping about. Was he properly restrained? How were the conditions of the ride? That GPS thing can be used to determine the route taken. If they left him unrestrained and purposefully have him a "bumpy ride", then it's quite easy to see that he could have essentially been thrown about the van, but not by choice.

So in the end, it doesn't fully answer the questions. Video would answer the questions, but we don't have those.
 
OMG, some people are such suckers. Some people will spout any ridiculous line if it suits their agenda.
:doh
Said the one spouting such.


I mean, how convenient. On its very face it's patently absurd. Any person even remotely intelligent would be skeptical over this. This is the classic "jailhouse snitch" scenario where a guy gets arrested then suddenly confesses all his sins to a total stranger within seconds of meeting them. Really? I'm sorry, but no.

Before being gullible and a sucker, find out if the "snitch" is getting anything in return for his alleged information... i.e., reduced sentence, reduced charge, or even no charge at all for his crime...
The product of biased and convoluted thoughts.

This was information known from the beginning. Do you understand that?
Information obtained through the investigation and used to obtain a search warrant.
 
In the final analysis. Crushed windpipe and 80% broken neck.
Nothing more need be said.
 
Well being a white male of means has it's privileges, you make that perfectly clear. You seem to fail to realize that many of those who are poor who are in jail, didn't commit any crimes either. It's hard for those people to treat their police with respect because the police as they presents themselves to impoverished is a different persona to the one you see.

My first long term boyfriend drove an old 68 chevy pickemup truck that he was refurbishing, he was also from the other side of town, though his parents had moved pretty close to our side, and hence we went to the same high school. It was also clear he wasn't entirely white, he Italian/Cajun and came out looking like a darker Mexican. He was going down the 281 one day and our local Hollywood Park cop pulled him over for going 5 over. Now no one from our neighborhood got pulled over for 5mph over, never. But he was clearly poor by our neighborhood's standard. Well the cop approaches all attitude and rude and smart ass, then he saw me in the passenger seat. His behavior changed in a split second.

You don't believe because you've lead a sheltered life. I get that. It doesn't make you right.

You claim I've lived a privileged and sheltered life while I claim I've lived a respectful and decent life. My parents were about as poor as most but they taught myself and my three brothers respect for elders and others, politeness and civility. Being able to teach those things doesn't take money or privilege.

My parents did everything for their children - my dad had $5 spending money each week and never griped about it and my mother even less. They saved what little they had so they could buy a small house. They bought a one bedroom house with minimum down and my three brothers and I shared the house's dining room as our bedroom because there was only one bedroom. It had a big yard though, so four boys had plenty of place to play. My parents lost our home when I was about 6 because they wanted to give us bedrooms and a home renovator who didn't finish his job left them with a home renovation loan and no renovation and my father had a heart attack from the stress and lost his job.

Bottom line, I was hardly the child of privilege and I learned pretty early on that life can be a bitch. But I also learned how to be a civil, decent adult and most of that came from parents who did their job.

So don't give me any crap and excuses about poverty causing savages to rampage.
 
Riot first? They've been protesting peacefully for over week. Trying to use that as any type of judgement call only shows your complete ignorance of the situation. One night of rioting, no deaths, and ignore all the other nights of peaceful protest.

They have ??

In Baltimore ? That didn't look like protesting to me. And protesting over what exactly ?

A assumption ? A guess ?

Here's the issue. " Police brutality " or the assumptuon of Polive brutality is the least of the problems in Cities like Baltimore.
 
However, even if true the police are still contributors. They did not restrain him properly in the van
And there may have been reasons for that.
But it does not automatically make them a contributor.


and they did not get him medical attention quickly enough.
Do you think that if it is believed the arrestee is making fake claims they are going to provided medical care?
That is like a person yelling they can't breath, when yelling that is an indication that they can breath.

Here his legs appeared limp, but his neck was not. Then he clearly stood on his own and ducked to get into the van.
An indication he is faking injury.

Saying they should have based on discovered after the fact injuries does not mean they should have under the known circumstances at the time.
When found in the condition he later was in, medical response was provided quickly.




Was he properly restrained? How were the conditions of the ride?
We already know his legs were restrained but he was not seatbelted.
As for the conditions of the ride?
As already provided.


From the 24th.
Batts said another man who was in the van during the tail end of Gray's ride told investigators that Gray was "was still moving around, that he was kicking and making noises" up until the van arrived at the station. Batts said the man also said the driver did not speed, make sudden stops of "drive erratically."
Freddie Gray death: Baltimore police prisoner transport under scrutiny - World - CBC News
 
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Whatever happened, whether he injured himself, or the police did it, one thing we all know is that the looters don't care about Freddie Gray or about "black lives". Maybe the peaceful protesters do, but not these guys. They see an opportunity to destroy things (and people's lives) and that's what they are there for. And, of course, other's see political opportunity and help themselves to that.
 
:doh OMG, some people are such suckers. Some people will spout any ridiculous line if it suits their agenda.

I mean, how convenient. On its very face it's patently absurd. Any person even remotely intelligent would be skeptical over this. This is the classic "jailhouse snitch" scenario where a guy gets arrested then suddenly confesses all his sins to a total stranger within seconds of meeting them. Really? I'm sorry, but no.

Before being gullible and a sucker, find out if the "snitch" is getting anything in return for his alleged information... i.e., reduced sentence, reduced charge, or even no charge at all for his crime... the last one of which would be impossible to prove, which also makes it a popular tactic for the LE side.

Might as well claim that Martians swooped in and shot his back with a laser ray. :roll:

... this isn't a jailhouse informant ("snitch") situation at all. Jailhouse informants provide what is classified as a secondary confession (i.e., the suspect told me he did it or had information only the perpetrator of the crime would know). This is not that; this is a simple witness statement. A firsthand account of a situation is different than a secondhand retelling of a story.

The speal about having the police giving enticements to the witness to alter his story is unsupported speculation. Let's not start diving headfirst into unsupported hypothetical scenarios - it might just cause a riot.
 
They have ??

In Baltimore ? That didn't look like protesting to me. And protesting over what exactly ?

A assumption ? A guess ?

Here's the issue. " Police brutality " or the assumptuon of Polive brutality is the least of the problems in Cities like Baltimore.

Like I said, if you don't know what's been going on in Baltimore for the past couple of weeks, your opinions and comments are pretty much useless.
 
Riot away then.....

Unreal.

Who's advocating rioting? Every time this happens, those of us that want to see police abuse, corruption and excess cleaned up, (which I'm permanently amazed that it's not everybody) the point is also made that rioting and looting is the ultimate stupidity, is counter productive, and moves the focus away from the police abuse, and onto the rioting. Nevertheless, we must remain focused on police abuse.
 
... this isn't a jailhouse informant ("snitch") situation at all. Jailhouse informants provide what is classified as a secondary confession (i.e., the suspect told me he did it or had information only the perpetrator of the crime would know). This is not that; this is a simple witness statement. A firsthand account of a situation is different than a secondhand retelling of a story.

The speal about having the police giving enticements to the witness to alter his story is unsupported speculation. Let's not start diving headfirst into unsupported hypothetical scenarios - it might just cause a riot.
:applaud
I find it odd that he didn't pay attention to the fact that this was obtained by the investigators.
 
... this isn't a jailhouse informant ("snitch") situation at all. Jailhouse informants provide what is classified as a secondary confession (i.e., the suspect told me he did it or had information only the perpetrator of the crime would know). This is not that; this is a simple witness statement. A firsthand account of a situation is different than a secondhand retelling of a story.

The speal about having the police giving enticements to the witness to alter his story is unsupported speculation. Let's not start diving headfirst into unsupported hypothetical scenarios - it might just cause a riot.

Please clarify. Are you recognizing that the affidavit is and affidavit of a cop relaying what he claims he was told? Or do you think the affidavit is by the prisoner the cop claims told him that Gray threw himself around in the van?
 
Every time this happens, those of us that want to see police abuse, corruption and excess cleaned up, (which I'm permanently amazed that it's not everybody) ...
Nevertheless, we must remain focused on police abuse.
The problem with this is that not everything your side points to as being abuse/etc.., is.
Most often it is not.
 
I do not believe it is possible to break your own neck by slamming your head against a wall nor collapsing your own throat when handcuffed.

There are millions of dollars, prosecutions of police, and probably lost higher-up jobs, plus riots to deal with. In short, I do not believe he broke his own neck and collapsed his own throat.

But you tell me how a handcuffed person in the immediately presence of police could break his own neck and collapse his own throat if you want to believe that. It's as believable as claiming someone shot themselves in the back of the head 3 times. I think making this explanation is just going to piss people off even more.

It is interesting to see how quickly two members who claim people who are arrested lie, but absolutely believe this prisoner as if the edict from God himself.

How about in a slip and fall in the bathroom?

(Just a quick google found this)

Swedish man sent home with broken neck - The Local

A Swedish man complaining of pain in his neck after a fall in his bathroom was sent home from hospital without an x-ray only to find that he was nursing a broken neck.



So, is it possible to be flopping about in a moving vehicle, surrounded by a metal cage, and fall in a way that breaks your neck? Who knows, but if a simple fall in a bathroom can do it, it's not impossible.
 
Please clarify. Are you recognizing that the affidavit is and affidavit of a cop relaying what he claims he was told? Or do you think the affidavit is by the prisoner the cop claims told him that Gray threw himself around in the van?
I think it is pretty clear that the information was from what investigators were told and was included in an affidavit for a search warrant.
 

He didn't walk into the van. Remember the lady commented that she thought his
leg looked broken as they dragged him to the van. They must have dragged him by
his neck, eh?
 
The problem with this is that not everything your side points to as being abuse/etc.., is.
Most often it is not.

Wtf are you talking about dude, "my side"?? Your side apologises for all police abuse. That side is an obstruction to justice, something the fringe right, hanging from the edge by their fingernails, is keen to cling to.
 
How about in a slip and fall in the bathroom?

(Just a quick google found this)

Swedish man sent home with broken neck - The Local

A Swedish man complaining of pain in his neck after a fall in his bathroom was sent home from hospital without an x-ray only to find that he was nursing a broken neck.



So, is it possible to be flopping about in a moving vehicle, surrounded by a metal cage, and fall in a way that breaks your neck? Who knows, but if a simple fall in a bathroom can do it, it's not impossible.
Something is wrong with a person's position if they can not acknowledge common occurrences.
It reeks of bias.
 
He didn't walk into the van. Remember the lady commented that she thought his
leg looked broken as they dragged him to the van. They must have dragged him by
his neck, eh?

You must have missed the part where he stood on the back on his own and ducked to get into the van.
I can also understand why you may not have seen it as it has been edited out of many of the videos, almost as if in an attempt to cast a false narrative.





Wtf are you talking about dude, "my side"?? Your side apologises for all police abuse. That side is an obstruction to justice, something the fringe right, hanging from the edge by their fingernails, is keen to cling to.
Typical nonsense from you.
I do not apologize for anyone.

Clearly you have a problem distinguishing between reality and your made up bs.
Heck, you are even using the term wrongly here.
 
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I doubt it given the sheer numbers of people your police forces kill either during capture or in custody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUpMXYiCI6w

Your violent law enforcement is basically out of control and being allowed to get away with
:doh
You are speaking biased bs.
Our laws are different and allow such force to be used.
And as the RT [SUB](d'oh!)[/SUB] reporter stated that does not indicate whether or not these deaths were justified or not.
 
And there may have been reasons for that.
But it does not automatically make them a contributor.



Do you think that if it is believed the arrestee is making fake claims they are going to provided medical care?
That is like a person yelling they can't breath, when yelling that is an indication that they can breath.

Here his legs appeared limp, but his neck was not. Then he clearly stood on his own and ducked to get into the van.
An indication he is faking injury.

Saying they should have based on discovered after the fact injuries does not mean they should have under the known circumstances at the time.
When found in the condition he later was in, medical response was provided quickly.

The police admit that they did not restrain him properly, which means even if Gray himself was thrashing about under his own decisions, they contributed to that by not following protocol and not restraining him properly. They also admit that they didn't seek medical attention quickly enough.



We already know his legs were restrained but he was not seatbelted.
As for the conditions of the ride?
As already provided.


From the 24th.
Batts said another man who was in the van during the tail end of Gray's ride told investigators that Gray was "was still moving around, that he was kicking and making noises" up until the van arrived at the station. Batts said the man also said the driver did not speed, make sudden stops of "drive erratically."
Freddie Gray death: Baltimore police prisoner transport under scrutiny - World - CBC News

And if there is GPS, then we should be able to know for sure.

Had they followed protocol and restrained him properly, there would be no question as to what happened in the van. But they didn't. So here we are. His neck didn't just spontaneously break. And if he was still screaming and kicking all the way until the van made it to the station...what happened to make him dead? That would suggest that even if he were banging into things intentionally, he didn't sever his own spine at that point. So if the other prisoner is telling the truth, then something happened AFTER the van got to where it was going to end Gray's life.

So, we're still sorta in the thick of it here, nothing can exonerate the actions of the police.
 
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