My take on Baltimore:

Black lives are important. Black on Black civilian murder takes many more lives than by the 50% Black police force. Where is the outcry? When police try to solve murders, they run into a "no snitch" wall of silence. On the basis of released information, I believe that the police were wrong in many respects. They arrested a person whose only action after seeing them, was to run. In their custody, the police failed to care for his well being. Simply wrong!

The situation in Baltimore is similar to the Middle East and to the BDS movement here. It matters not how many Palestinians are killed by Arabs, the outrage rises only when Israelis are involved.

Yes "failed to care" but lets get real... many perps play up and feign need for medical attention.

Even if I accept cops should have done more sooner.. it's a disciplinary matter.. far far from a MURDER (or manslaughter) charge.
I am awaiting evidence.. but my feeling is that Freddie was maybe banging his own head in van? Not uncommon. We'll see. I don't see cops were negligent in that regard.. even with seat belt he could have done himself harm. The fact that Freddie died days later.. after surgery.. complicates matters. Who's to say if the medical attention in hospital was actually a contributing factor itself? With best intentions in world.. surgery itself can in effect be a cause of death. Not in sense of liability or wrongdoing.. just tricky surgery that does not always go well. The days in hospital also (unfortunately) mean that evidence within Gray's body at autopsy does not show his state immediately after he was injured. Did he swallow some drugs.. to hide evidence? Maybe massive amount? Indication of Heroin in urine (it is rumored).. but stomach contents days later is too late to gather evidence in that regard.

etc There is a LOT to learn

Prisoner in van said Freddie Gray was ‘trying to injure himself,’ document says
By Peter Hermann April 29 at 9:10 PM

BALTIMORE — A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he could hear Gray “banging against the walls” of the vehicle and believed that he “was intentionally trying to injure himself,” according to a police document obtained by The Washington Post.

The prisoner, who is currently in jail, was separated from Gray by a metal partition and could not see him. His statement is contained in an application for a search warrant, which is sealed by the court. The Post was given the document under the condition that the prisoner not be named because the person who provided it feared for the inmate’s safety.

....more at link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/cri ... story.html

I tried to avoid this...... witness Donta Allen starting to look like a hybrid of Dorian Johnson and Rachel Jeantel
Looking like there are two people? one 38 and the other 22 years old?

The CTH Pulled me back in!!


EXPLOSIVE – The Curious Case Of Freddie Gray’s Paddy Wagon Companion – Baltimore Prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, Manipulating The Media
Posted on May 2, 2015 by sundance



On April 29th the Washington Post ran an explosive article highlighting information from a passenger who was inside the transport vehicle at the same time Freddie Gray was driven toward central booking. According to the Washington Post source: Freddie Gray was intentionally “trying to injure himself“.

On April 30th local Baltimore media outlet WBAL-TV introduced Donta Allen, a person they claimed was the passenger in the transport vehicle.

However, THEY ARE NOT THE SAME PERSON.

Our research indicates the office of Baltimore State Attorney, Marilyn Mosby, used or allowed one of her deputy State Attorneys, Janice Bledsoe (who was in charge of the investigation as assigned by Marilyn Mosby), to willfully and intentionally place a false story using Bledsoe’s lover, WBAL-TV reporter Jayne Miller, and thereby create a fictitious story to imply Donta Allen as the passenger outlined in the Washington Post story.

Yes, you read that correctly.

The full story: The Washington Post does not specifically name the passenger who heard Freddie Gray attempting to injure himself. However, they do provide details as to the identity – details we can independently confirm (emphasis mine).

....more at link
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/201 ... the-media/

diwataman2014 says:
May 5, 2015 at 4:57 pm

That could very well be but Peter Hermann needs to explain because he says the statements come from an:

“affidavit is part of a search warrant seeking the seizure of the uniform worn by one of the officers involved in Gray’s arrest or transport.”

“His statement is contained in an application for a search warrant”

They should post that document otherwise it looks like their covering something up. If there is only a name and no other descriptors of the other passenger in that document then they need to explain if they went looking on their own for that name.