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Driving like an [ bleep ]. i fell and i can't move. take to a hospital he told the doctor the wagon made a sharp turn i fell hitting face first, heard a pop and blacked out. >> clearly it's not a problem with the vans. it's a problem with the van operator. >> like gray johnson had a broken spine. he died just two weeks later. don day johnson's family filed a $100 million lawsuit against the baltimore police. >> regional auto theft task force. >> officer leak who drove the police van testified i did not seat belt him because she thought he had a full bladder. she denied giving him a rough ride ...
To talk. >> none of the officers describe using any force against mr. gray. >> witnesses say they saw something rougher. >> they flipped him over and put both knees on his back and held him there until the cruiser came to pick him up. >> later when gray was taken out of the van, less an an hour after he got in he couldn't breathe or talk. he lapse into a coma and died a week later of a severe spinal cord injury. the critical questions remaining tonight, what caused his injury and what happened inside the police van. police say gray asked for an inhaler about the same time he got in the van at ...
Person in the van. well that's a curious thing. and we heard that he was separated by some kind of screen. but did he hear anything? what did he say? >> law enforcement veterans say investigator wills be talking to that second passenger whose testimony will be crucial and to the van operator. >> so far i haven't heard allegation that the brakes were deliberately applied. but yes they would need to look into the question of how the van was being operated and whether brakes were applied and at what point and also how he may have been seat belted or secured in the van if he was. >> another key qu...