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CRIME AND CRIMINALS: MURDER HOMICIDE :
POLICE BRUTALITY :
UNITED STATES: CITIES: BALTIMORE, MARYLAND:
Freddie Gray
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Freddie Gray
Adam Shatz
London Review of Books
LRB Online
7 May 2015
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2015/05/07/adam-shatz/freddie-gray
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Gray was killed by a novel method: he was driven while black. Three police
officers on bike patrol saw him at 8.30 a.m. on 12 April. Its not clear
why he was a person of interest, other than that he was a young black
male. They made eye contact, and he ran, for reasons unknown. The officers
arrested him and placed him face down. Unable to breathe, he asked for an
inhaler, to no avail. The officers found a sliding knife on him, which is
legal to carry, but charged him with possession of a switchblade, which
isnt. He was then shackled, placed in the back of a police wagon and
driven without a seatbelt, as required by department regulations. By 8.59
a.m., he had suffered a major injury to his spinal cord. Again, he said
that he couldnt breathe and asked for medical assistance. The police
waited another 25 minutes before calling for a medic. Gray died in
hospital a week later.
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This account of Grays killing was presented, in riveting, forensic detail,
by Marilyn Mosby, the states attorney for Baltimore City, at a press
conference on 1 May. Toward the end of her 16-minute speech, Mosby, a
35-year-old African-American woman, did the unthinkable: she charged six
police officers with crimes ranging from murder to involuntary
manslaughter. She promised justice to Grays parents and pleaded for peace
so that she could do her work. Her press conference was as swift as it was
bold. When someone dies in their custody, the Maryland police are not
required to say anything until ten days later, a law that has been widely
criticised by local politicians. Mosby beat the police to it, and made
plain that it was unacceptable for them to leak details of the
investigation. Black Baltimore, expecting an official whitewash, was
electrified.
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Mosby grew up in Dorchester, a poor, predominantly black neighbourhood of
Boston, and has spoken about her experience of police harassment. She is
well aware that while the events that followed Grays arrest were
extraordinary, there was nothing unusual about his arrest. But Americans
are not supposed to say what they know about police treatment of black
men, especially if they hold high office. New Yorks police nearly went on
strike after Bill de Blasio, the new mayor, described the talk that he and
his African-American wife had had with their teenage son about how he
should conduct himself with officers in uniform. (When two police officers
were killed by a deranged man angry at the death of Eric Garner, Pat
Lynch, the bullish head of the New York Policemens Union, accused de
Blasio of having blood on his hands.)
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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