Sgt. Warren Stephens said he went out on assignments with Officer Edward Nero to teach the young policeman the ropes. But Stephens said he didn’t tell his subordinates about a policy that had been updated days before Gray’s arrest, making it mandatory to put prisoners in seat belts.
Also on Tuesday, Officer Aaron Jackson said he worked with Nero and was on the scene of Gray’s arrest. He testified that he could see Gray “violently shaking” the van, and that he’d made arrests but never buckled prisoners into the transport van’s seat belt.
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At least no more settlement money is involved.
925 so if you were one of the officers you wouldn't sue for the witch hunt SA conducted. I would.
Correct, there will be six civil suits against the city, once all the unnecessary trials are done or dropped.
I guess none of you have heard the autopsy report? Even if Gray had tried to injure himself, there is no way he could have inflicted enough force to nearly sever his spine nor crush his windpipe.
But I guess all of you know more than doctors.
12:13 this POS deserved to die, he was a lifetime of problems, in and out of jail all his useless life!
12:13 I have no idea where you heard that but what little we heard about the autopsy report (portion leaked to the Baltimore Sun & the testimony of Assistant Medical Examiner Carol Allan in Officer Porter's trial) does not support your claim.
First of all his windpipe was NOT crushed. That was something tossed out by Gray family attorney Billy Murphy and was never mentioned in either the leaked report or in testimony in Officer Porters trial. It's not true. If it were the prosecution would have brought it up in Officer Porter's trial.
Secondly the report states while it's possible Gray was hurt while lying on the floor and moving back and forth it "likely" wasn't how the injury occured.
"LIKELY" being the key word. The medical examiner never pinned down an exact way Gray was injured nor did she pin down an exact time i.e-report states between the 2nd and the 4th possibly before the 3rd stops injury (again) "likely" occurred.
The key issue is the legality of the pursuit and arrest of Gray. The justification of all events after the arrest are dependent on whether on not Gray should have been arrested in the first place.
Usually it's the defense arguing a legality of an arrest.
Prosecutors are arguing that responding officers should have assessed the legal merits of another officer's pursuit and arrest of a suspect before assisting. Maybe BPD can have 6 or 7 civil rights attorneys on staff and sitting in call centers to assess each case while responding officers wait in their cruisers playing Angry Birds
The defense rested their case this morning. Tomorrow morning closing arguments. Williams has stated he will issue his verdict on Monday.
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