He is a known drug dealer and ran unprovoked from the police. Also, an office has said that Gray was observed making a hand ot hand to hand transaction just before he saw the police.
Not only is the illegal arrest charge falling apart, but audio of communications with dispatch enroute prove that medical assistance was requested for Gray several times. Go to thconservativetreehouse.com to hear the audio.
there is some law to support the prosition that he should not run from the police but he still would have the right to walk calmly away. Therefore, that part may just boil down to (a debate about the allowable infrinces of running in that jurisdiction) and the basic fact whether he really was running or just walking fast, etc.
Not the srongest of charge factors, to be sure.
Whatever a ‘hand to hand to hand transaction’ may be is anyone’s guess. And just how illegal that may be? Or suspicious even? Are people required to keep their hands in their pockets while they walk the public way, or perhaps are they required to keep their hands open and in plain view while ambulating about town, or?
Again, I can see that it may be possible to raise enough inference to stop the man, but again a right to stop is not a right to arrest and a stopped person still has the right to walk freely away if s/he wishes (to upset the officer).
I have no way of assessing these things and I am unfamiliar with the local law there, too. So I will quiet down. I only say that the case for arrest does NOT appear proven yet (from the obviously poor media reporting I’ve seen thus far).
The biggest issue will be his death in custody, of course, and not nearly as much the question of false arrest, anyway.
We will see.
I am fully aware that there are some very bad police officers.
These definitely need to be cleaned out...completely..for the public to continue to respect and support the rest of the cops who are honest and civil and worthy of our respect and support.
IMHO.