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police station, unbelted in a van. at the station, johnson complained that the officer was driving like a [ bleep ]. i fell and i can't move. taken to the hospital. he told the doctor, the wagon made a sharp turn. i fell, hitting face first. heard a pop and blacked out. phillip has filed two lawsuits against the baltimore police department. >> clearly it's not a problem with the vans. it's a problem with the van operator. >> like gray, johnson had a severed spine. he died two weeks later. dondi johnson's family filed a lawsuit against the department. at trial, officer leak who drove the police van testified i did not seat belt him because she thought he had a full bladder. she denied purposely giving him a rough ride. the johnson family was awarded a wrongful death verdict and won
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 want a tactic used against difficult prisoner pps the johnson family won a wrongful death verdict and was aworded $7.4 million. but on appeal was reduced to $500,000. now the gray family is wondering
we heard they were separated by a screen but did he hear anything? what did he say? >> investigators will be talking to the second passenger whose testimony will be crucial and to the van operator. >> so far i have not heard the allegation that the brakes were deliberately applied, and there's a question as to how the van was being operated and how the brakes were applied, and how he may have been seat belted or secured in the van, if he was. >> another key question why it took so long for gray to get medical attention. 42 minutes elapsed, and we pressed baltimore police on the two questions, the conduct of the van operator and what the second passenger in the van said about what happened. they declined to comment on
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 8:42 a.m. on april 12th less than four minutes later the van stopped. the van operator says gray was irate. he was placed in leg irons. it's one of at least two stops the van made with gray inside. another was to pick up another suspect. police say the two were separated by a metal barrier. >> we learned for the first time at some point, probably right before he was sent to the hospital there was a second
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 question why it took so long for gray to get medical attention, about 42 minutes elapsed between the time gray was put in the police van and when a medic was called. baltimore's mayor says that wu too much time, a mistake. >> reporter: all day we've pressed baltimore police about those two questions about the conduct of the van operator and also about what that second