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CRIME AND CRIMINALS: MURDER HOMICIDE : POLICE BRUTALITY :
UNITED STATES: CITIES: BALTIMORE, MARYLAND:
Freddie Gray in Baltimore: Another City, Another Death in the Public Eye
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Freddie Gray in Baltimore: Another City, Another Death in the Public Eye
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and RON NIXON
APRIL 21, 2015
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/us/another-mans-death-
another-round-of-questions-for-the-police-in-baltimore.html
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In death, Mr. Gray, 25, has become the latest symbol in the running
national debate over police treatment of black men all the more searing,
people here say, in a city where the mayor and police commissioner are
black.
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Questions are swirling around just what happened to Mr. Gray, who died
here Sunday a week after he was chased and restrained by police officers,
and suffered a spine injury, which later killed him, in their custody. The
police say they have no evidence that their officers used force. A lawyer
for Mr. Grays family accuses the department of a cover-up, and on Tuesday
the Justice Department opened a civil rights inquiry into his death.
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But as protests continued Tuesday night with hundreds of angry residents,
led by a prominent pastor and Mr. Grays grieving family, chanting and
marching in the streets the death has also fueled debate on whether
African-American leadership here can better handle accusations of police
brutality than cities like Ferguson, Mo., and North Charleston, S.C., with
their white-dominated governments.
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Unlike other places where incidents like this have happened, they
understand what it means to be black in America, said City Councilman
Brandon Scott, an ally of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and a frequent
critic of Police Commissioner Anthony Batts.
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They understand how something like this can get out of hand very quickly,
Mr. Scott said. They understand the communitys frustration more than
anyone else. But at the same time they also understand the opposite they
understand the need to have law enforcement in neighborhoods. So it puts
them in a bind.
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In interviews on Tuesday, witnesses gave various accounts. Michelle Gross,
who took cellphone video of the arrest, said she saw two officers standing
over Mr. Gray as people said: Hes just lying there? Why dont you call an
ambulance? Why dont you get him some help?
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Another witness, Kiona Mack, who said she took the cellphone video that
showed Mr. Gray being dragged into the van, said she saw officers sitting
on his back, and having his leg twisted.
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Members of Mr. Grays family have said he suffered three fractured
vertebrae in his neck and that his larynx was crushed, according to The
Baltimore Sun; Mr. Murphy, the lawyer, said Mr. Grays spinal cord was 80
percent severed. Those details have not been confirmed by doctors or
authorities, but experts on spinal cord injury said even less obvious neck
trauma could be life-threatening.
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It doesnt necessarily take huge force to fracture or dislocate a vertebra,
and have a traumatic compression of the spinal cord, said Ben A. Barres,
professor of neurobiology at the Stanford School of Medicine. It gets
worse very rapidly if its not treated. And, he said, moving the person,
like lifting him into a van, or even the ride in the van, could make the
injury much worse.
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