Is there any justification or scenario that you can imagine that would explain someone in handcuffs in police custody sustaining a spinal cord injury?
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April 28th, 2015
Thinking of Freddie Gray in Baltimore. A friend whose son lives there says “who knows what happened.” If the man was in cuffs and had his spinal cord broken, how can that be justified? I don’t see that it can but am looking for possibilities.
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It sure doesn’t seem justified on the face of it.
Not one that rhymes with the police’s statement of ‘no resistance’ and ‘no violence’ during the arrest.
Either he had the injuries prior his arrest or he sustained them during the arrest. Either way, he should not have been brought to jail, but to an emergency room.
Being white isn’t anything to be proud of, but it does seem to be a lot safer.
He should have been better at those shortstops.
Yes. It can be justified if the following happens…
- Person does something illegal and violent.
– Person is put in handcuffs and brought to the station in the back of a police car.
– While on the way to the police station, a tornado lifts police car and throws it 50 feet, breaking the handcuffed person’s spine.
Absent a tornado, there is no justified scenario*.
* We may be able to work in an asteroid hit on a nearby building, which topples the building onto the police car. Or it could be justified if a UFO landed on the police car, injuring his spine.
@whitenoise There’s rumblings that the cops like to throw the prisoner in back, unbelted, and then slam on the brakes at each stop. Guess who slides up and bounces off the seats.
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Interesting approach… and what good does that do?
Sometimes I wonder if all of you guys in the US are living in the same country. There’s a different US for whites, for blacks, for democrats and for republicans. All in the same physical space, yet worlds apart.
Interesting and thought provoking answer. Sometimes it takes someone outside of the US to open our eyes. I guess we have a lot of work still to do. I don’t think good entered the equation after they tossed him in the vehicle.
The scenario that explains it is the person in handcuffs is black and the police are all white. I can’t think of any justification.
If the suspect was handcuffed and placed in a prone position in the back of a van, no belts or other restraints, head to the front, and the van made a violent sudden stop and the suspect slid head first into the firewall or seats.
I was watching an episode of COPS once, a guy in hancuffs broke away, and still cuffed, he stole a police cruiser, took it on a speedy chase, and ran when it crashed. We can’t always envision the possible.
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