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Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Lucas:

They most likely closed the police van doors leaving his head hanging outside the vehicle

the video does not show that. It is most likely that he was injured when he was first apprehended and it was aggravated after the put him in chains. Whatever it was someone will pay.

I see.. he was handcuffed from his neck.

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Baltimore witness: Cops twisted Freddie Gray like 'origami'

 

Baltimore cops twisted Freddie Gray like "origami," says the man who filmed the fatally wounded 25-year-old's arrest.

Witness Kevin Moore is speaking out on the confrontation between police officers and Gray, who died of a severed spinal cord.

"They had him folded up like he was a crab or a piece of origami," Moore told the Baltimore Sun. "He was all bent up, and the officer had his knee in his neck. He was just screaming, like screaming for life."

The death of Gray a week after the April 12 bust inflamed tensions between cops and black residents with the police union boss describing protesters as a “like a lynch mob.”

Union boss Gene Ryan acknowledged demonstrations had been peaceful but blasted protesters’ “rhetoric” after Gray's death.

 

“In fact, the images seen on television look and sound much like a lynch mob in that they are calling for imprisonment of these officers without them ever receiving the due process that is the Constitutional right of every citizen, including law enforcement officers,” Ryan said in a written statement.

 

The controversial description infuriated critics who bashed the union leader as impossibly tone deaf to one of the grimmest reminders of racial injustice in this country’s history.

“We’ve been the victims of the lynching and now we’re the lynch mob?” Gray family attorney Billy Murphy told the Baltimore Sun. “The president of the police union called peaceful protests and the anger at the death of a man to severe and unfathomable injuries while in police custody a lynch mob? It doesn't get more insensitive or insulting than that. These remarks illustrate why black people and the police don't get along.”

Ryan should rethink his priorities, the attorney said.

“He needs to issue an apology at the speed of light and focus on the more important issues of how this black man didn't deserve to die and have his spinal cord severed and his neck broken — how that happened," Murphy told the Baltimore Sun.

Ryan later backed off the inflammatory language.

“Maybe I need to reword that,” he said at a news conference.

Gray could be heard in a cell phone video screaming as two officers dragged the handcuffed 25-year-old to a police van and loaded him inside.

 

He was later taken to a hospital where doctors discovered his spinal cord was almost completely severed. Gray slipped into a coma and died a week later.

Union leaders maintain the injuries happened inside the van but claim they’re not sure how.

The case is now being investigated by the Department of Justice.

The union rushed to support the six officers involved while laying blame for the arrest on Gray, who was carrying a pocket knife when he was stopped.

“Had he not had a knife or a an illegal weapon on him, he would have been released after the proper paperwork was done,” union attorney Michael Davey said at a news conference.

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