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you cannot do that in the paddy wagon. hit your head and have a headache yeah. you ain t going to hurt yourself to the point you re dead and brutalized like that. when the police van arrived at the subation freddie gray was nonresponsive. the autopsy report said a single high energy injury to his neck and spine. comparing the injury to those seen in shallow water diving incidents. medical examiner concluded the death was a homicide because he was not belted in and the wrist and ankles were shackled making him at wrist for an unsupported fall. the m.e. believes freddie gray was trying to get to his feet and when the van slowed down he slammed the head against the wall severing his spine. here s the deputy police commissioner. when mr. gray was placed inside that van he was able to talk. he was upset. and what mr. gray was taken out of that van he could not talk and he could not breathe. ....
You don t charge police officers with false arrest or assault based on the fact they thought they had probable cause and didn t. there s an issue about whether that knife was legal. if you do that what will happen you can sue the police department but if you do that what happens is police officers will stop making arrests. she s criminalizing bad decisions. in her opinion, bad decisions by the cops. judge alex and yourself there. that was a mistake. let s end it on a happy note after of agreement. none of the lawyers believe she should be disqualified. there s a question of whether they can get a fair trial in baltimore. that s a separate question of whether there needs to be a change of venue here and mark furman is moments away on that. a big question in this case is about a man who could prove to be the key witness. the only person who shared the van ride with freddie gray to the police station. and the question now is whether ....
So what they do is they handcuff and leg shackle him and then 15 days i think before they were told you now have to seat belt them. four. four days before. you re right n. a 15-page document. no proof the officers were in fact told about it. just a policy went out. right. it was a 15-page memo 4 days before. it s the lack of action here. let me ask you this. these guys are charged with assault. what s the assault? the arresting officers committed against freddie gray? the placing of the leg shackles? the placing of the handcuffs? what is it? well i actually just looked up the maryland law on assault and something about placing someone in eminent danger or fear. unlike learned in law school for the touching here it is almost in new york we have menacing. back to the same thing we discuss ds. without the set belt. let s move on. let s talk about cesar goodson. ....
Either. we don t think gray was bouncing his head against the wall. we think the police officers said let s take him for a rough ride and the driver ernlly hit the brakes. right. but he he is the defense s best evidence that freddie gray did this to himself. that he was on drugs. which the autopsy report shows. that he was acting erratically. he got up in the back of the van to hurt himself. that s their theory. unless you have an expert like you had and said somebody could not cause this injury by themselves. correct. hold on. go ahead, mark. okay. all they have to do is create reasonable doubt. they don t have to say this witness is credible and thus this happened. they just have to come up with that as being a reasonable hypothesis of innocence. let me finish. baden said another possibility is that gray was injured prior to getting into the van and ....
About their role. i think she clearly has a love for the limelight but as far as like eliminating her from the prosecution, no, i disagree with people saying this shows she can t be fair. she has a job to seek justice and she does that determining whether or not to bring charges supporting by the law and the evidence. once she made that determination, i don t have a problem with her standing up there and saying things like i m going to seek justice for freddie gray. she made a presumption of seeking justice that charges are appropriate and that seeking justice for freddie gray is seeking justice in this case. now, the rest of her statements saying to the youth, you know that this is our time and things like that you have to put in it context. remember that for days before it was the youth who were rioting, who were looting, who were burning and stealing cars. so what? so when you make that statement, you kind of make it look like you re in that camp. that this prosecution is to sto ....