Posted on 04/28/2015 9:43:15 AM PDT by yuffy
That is quite the rap sheet. Here are some things that you should know about Freddy Gray.
Heavy – Freddie Gray, who died a week after suffering injuries while in Baltimore police custody, had a lengthy criminal record, mainly for drug-related offenses, according to state court records. Police claim he was “involved in criminal activity,” prior to his arrest.
Gray, 25, died after spending seven days in a coma as a result of injuries he suffered while in the custody of city police, the Baltimore Sun reports.
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Gray had a lengthy arrest record with convictions dating back until at least 2007, according to the Maryland Department of Justice. Not all of the arrests led to convictions, in many of the cases he pleaded guilty to one charge while the others were dropped. Details of when he spent time in prison were not immediately available. His arrest record includes at least 18 arrests: •March 20, 2015: Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Substance
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Freddie’s dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6TKClPFQA
The guy obviously was a criminal. However, that doesn’t justify him being killed and having his spine nearly severed.
How would the people here who are sneering feel once Tea Partiers are the “criminals” according to the Feds? Would it be OK to rough them up and possibly kill them because they “deserved it”?
Police brutality and corruption is a serious issue, because it doesn’t take much for it to spread like a cancer.
Hear, hear.
I wonder if we will ever get the truth of what happened to him? I'm not optimistic, because Baltimore is like a third-world country. I don't think anyone who's trying to do the right thing down there can trust people around him/her.
what were his convictions? Why was he on the street??
This is the first I've heard about the bicycle.
Sounds like his initial spine injury was from the bicycle crash as he tried to get away from the police and then his injury got worse as he rode around in the van.
I believe the cops were on bicycles and Freddie Gray was running.
I don’t know the full story yet, but your perception may be accurate.
The problem is, the officers may have not realized how badly he hurt himself, and contributed to his death by not immobilizing him and transporting him in an ambulance.
Perhaps more will come out, and it will become clear they physically abuse him too. We’ll see about that.
The man didn’t deserve to die for what his record was, but he was on a collision course with destiny by his own actions.
His “running” from the police may have caused his death, or at least his paralysis for life on the taxpayer’s dime.
Here’s another malcontent that managed to not only screw up his own life, but the lives of public servants too.
We’ll see how it shakes out.
Not being an EMT and understanding how badly someone is hurt, doesn’t necessarily make you a rogue killer cop.
Mistakes happen. When we know more, perhaps they were just that. I’ll wait for the full story.
London, this time?
If he had been a 7 year old black girl with straight A’s who was killed in a drive by shooting nobody would have said a word.
But as a long time drug dealer he was a popular, well liked guy in the neighborhood.
Priorities.
Thanks, Democrats!
So... multiple arrests for violence and drugs “is not ‘bad’ at all” ?
Setting the bar a little low, aren’t we?
Likewise, if he was like many in say Chicago, who died in gang violence, not much would be said of it.
I’m not excusing rioting. Not at all. But if a 7 year old girl or a hoodlum dies in police custody due to a spinal column nearly being severed and only police had access to them during that time, that would leave some questions to be answered, in my opinion.
Sorry, Earlier I heard mention of a bike. I watched the arrest video and their appeared to be a single bicycle crashed near the arrest. I just assumed it was Gray’s. I guess it turns out to be the cops.
Imagine how much less violence from thugs and police if drugs were legal. We already have plenty of users with the stuff banned. Legalize it and the crime goes away.
Of course there are questions about how this man died. But saying that a lengthy arrest record for violence and drugs isn’t ‘that bad’, as the other posted stated, is in my view completely insane. Of course it’s bad. It’s a terrible record. That doesn’t mean this wasn’t a wrongful death, it may well have been. But that is a separate issue from my comment.
Some people apparently never watched those police booking station shows. Drunks and drug addicts banging their heads against doors. Do not see how that is the fault of police.
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