[Travis McGee]

The Freep is part of the story.

[Paladin2]

Its the seriousity of the charge.

[demshateGod]

I wonder if this guy writes for Snopes.com. If so, Freddie Gray indeed had a preexisting spinal injury.

[petercooper]

There is a 4 year gap in his arrest record. Was he just lucky during that time? Or was he turning his life around?

[Arm_Bears]

Trying to rehabilitate the perp and justify the riots.

[Spok]

The truth will change nothing.

[Reno89519]

Yes, suspicious distraction at best. The cops still chased him down without cause (not much of an injury I guess if he was able to run from them), arrested him without cause, through him in a van, which left him dead. Previous arrests, previous lawsuits, previous or recent injuries, whatever, do not excuse the police.

[agere_contra]

“We have no information or evidence at this point to indicate that there is a prior pre-existing spinal injury

Lawyer speak.

The article assumes facts not in evidence - and which cannot be in evidence - until the autopsy.

We don't know either way.

[TADSLOS]

Freddie’s medical history will never see the light of day. Val Jal has already seen to that.

[cripplecreek]

He was a lawsuit leech.

[Bogey78O]

When the story came out it seemed too good to be true.

Same thing happened with Darren Wilson’s supposedly broken orbital socket or Larry Reid supposedly hitting Harry.

Fake stories seem to get planted on less reputable blogs hoping they filter upstream to more prominent blogs so leftwing papers can ridicule and lambast them. Note it doesn’t say that the unknown blog got it wrong. It drags FR and TCT into it. Reading TCT it doesn’t do anything other than repeat the rumor with a warning of it being a rumor. With FR, it’s not a news site but more of an aggregator.

And yet the story is right wing news media got it wrong.

Watch out. This is happening too often for it to be incidental. Some folks out there are trying to poison the reputation of some sites.

[trebb]

Does nothing but add clouds to the truth. When an attorney says they have no proof and that it's a rumor, it could mean anything - especially when the attorney's clients stand to profit if it is not true.

I predict it will be 11 months, 24 days, 19 hours and 43 minutes before we have a semblance of the actual facts.....then the DOJ will add more clouds by finding a "broad and oppressive climate of racial prejudice" which contributed to his death....

[allendale]

Soon the Left narrative will claim resisting arrest is a civil right.

[dennisw]

But he was getting various payout due to lead paint exposure. Total BS -scam in my book but it gave him a monthly check $700 like an SSI disability check

For more details read the WAPO article

[mikeandike]

rumor might have caused real damage in a country...

So small websites can cause real damage, but all of the libs screaming that he was murdered by the police is not damaging?

[McGruff]

Well Michael E. Miller, looking at your history as a reporter this topic is a little out of your league.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/people/michael-e-miller

Did you get a tip over at Democrat Underground or something?

[Tupelo]

Story from the Washington comPost. Nuff said.

[hal ogen]

But why was he reported by another perp to be smashing his head against the metal walls of the jail-wagon? Suicide?

[camle]

i seem to recall saying yesterday that IF he had an injury, then it had to have happened years ago in order for him to get a settlement. it takes years. so if he got injured last week, he wouldn’t have gotten a settlement yet, and if he did get a settlement, then his injury must have been years ago.

[tumblindice]

Is it true that he received an annuity settlement worth six figures that would have paid-out some time in the future around $600 @ month, but he sold it to a company that cut him a check now for five figures?