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Lawyer for suspended Baltimore cops says man who died in custody had no seatbelt ("nickel rides")
Fox News via AP ^ | 04/232015 | JULIET LINDERMAN CURT ANDERSON Associated Pres

Posted on 04/27/2015 4:02:44 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

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To: AppyPappy

Who are the PTB? And evidently their agents not only can, they are doing a jam up good job of it. They are also causing the bootlickers to wear their fingers down to nubs typing on their keyboards defending them.


41 posted on 04/27/2015 5:16:07 PM PDT by sport
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To: Kid Shelleen

Bad cops and thugs. Epidemic levels of both.


42 posted on 04/27/2015 5:18:39 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Future Snake Eater
I> Why is this seatbelt thing such a plot point?

Well.... have you ever ridden in the back of a pickup truck ?

43 posted on 04/27/2015 5:18:55 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

I just wonder if during the take down of the individual he resisted arrest and in the struggle that ensued the individual (Gray) had health problems (asthma) and was taking some other medication four times a day. With his cocaine use that the CNS was affected, resulting in a weakened cervical vertebrae, in turn cocaine use alters the CNS and there is a rarity that the spinal verebrate can fracture. I am just wondering if this is the true scenario, but others want to say police brutality. resist arrest and have health problems there can be dire consequences. But the guy had 22 arrests in 7 years, so he was well known to the police. Just my two cents worth!


44 posted on 04/27/2015 5:22:51 PM PDT by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: Gene Eric

I agree with that


45 posted on 04/27/2015 5:29:24 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: Fuzz
True, even if he wasn’t resisting arrest. And arrest for what? Eye contact?

He was a known drug dealer, and the cops suspected he was in the middle of a transaction.

46 posted on 04/27/2015 5:31:11 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: The_Media_never_lie

I just wonder if during the take down of the individual he resisted arrest and in the struggle that ensued the individual (Gray) had health problems (asthma) and was taking some other medication four times a day. With his cocaine use that the CNS was affected, resulting in a weakened cervical vertebrae, in turn cocaine use alters the CNS and there is a rarity that the spinal verebrate can fracture. I am just wondering if this is the true scenario, but others want to say police brutality. resist arrest and have health problems there can be dire consequences. But the guy had 22 arrests in 7 years, so he was well known to the police. Just my two cents worth!


47 posted on 04/27/2015 5:31:39 PM PDT by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: mass55th

I dont know if an autopsy has been released. The bottom line is failed liberal polices caused more collateral damage.


48 posted on 04/27/2015 5:52:56 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
It's not hard to find the video after his arrest. They drag him away, he visibly cannot walk and is in pain, and throw him in the paddy wagon.

He was arrested without incident. That is how the police reported it. He had a knife on him. And no drugs.

The police, according to witnesses, bend his legs behind his back, nor did they report he resisted arrest. This idea that he was harmed from the seat belts has been put out by the police union.

It days of old, our forefathers would riot and threaten violence against our 'British' masters. Riots and mobs work.

Baltimore Officials Promise Investigation Into Death of Man After His Arrest

6 Baltimore police officers suspended amid investigation of suspect's fatal spine injury


49 posted on 04/27/2015 6:17:43 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: UCANSEE2

I’ve been in some pretty rough rides without any restraints, but my hands were free.


50 posted on 04/27/2015 6:21:54 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: babygene

Fox interviewed a local councilman and hypocrit.. who says what we got has failed.. all those years of keeping em on the plantation with support lines has backfired.. and he’spissed at the system.. what he sees is symptoms.. lol

He seemed clueless that he was in fact part of the problem..

Burn Baby Burn!!


51 posted on 04/27/2015 6:23:20 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Police brutality against prisoners being transported was addressed just six months ago”

WRONG, If it was we would of heard of all the COPS FIRED AND PROSECUTED!


52 posted on 04/27/2015 6:26:36 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: hondact200

Interesting.


53 posted on 04/27/2015 7:05:58 PM PDT by petercooper (And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

On another site, a nurse suggested that he might have had a spinal condition (sorry, can’t remember the name) that is fairly common and can lead to serious injury or death from almost any kind of physical force.

Still trying to remember name.. spinal spondylosis or spinal stenosis?


54 posted on 04/27/2015 10:15:21 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: NormsRevenge

http://articles.philly.com/2001-06-03/news/25322977_1_wagon-police-officer-police-van

Battered cargo: The costs of the police ‘nickel ride’ In city patrol wagons, suspects slam into walls and slide across the floor. Paying the price are the injured and the taxpayers - not the police.
By Nancy Phillips and Rose Ciotta INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS
Posted: June 03, 2001

Gino Thompson stepped into the police van an able-bodied man.

He emerged paralyzed from the waist down.

Thompson had been arrested outside a North Philadelphia convenience store after a drunken argument with a girlfriend over a set of keys. Police put him in the back of a patrol wagon, his hands cuffed behind his back.

The low, narrow benches had no seat belts. The bare, hard walls had no padding. As the wagon headed south on Broad Street, toward the 22d District police station, the driver accelerated - “like they were going to a fire or something,” Thompson said.

Then the wagon came to a screeching stop, Thompson and one of the officers recalled.

Thompson was launched headfirst into a partition and suffered a devastating spinal-cord injury.

“They took me right out of the store and into the wagon, and that’s the last I walked,” said Thompson, father of 11 children. “That wagon changed my whole life.”


55 posted on 04/28/2015 3:23:56 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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