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Excerpt: "The video shows Gray motionless and hanging out of the back of a police van on his stomach as police shackle his ankles."

 Protesters in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. (photo: Reuters)
Protesters in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. (photo: Reuters)


Baltimore Police in Question as New Freddie Gray Video Surfaces

By teleSUR

20 May 15

 

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The video shows Gray motionless and hanging out of the back of a police van on his stomach as police shackle his ankles.

new video has surfaced of Freddie Gray's arrest that contradicts previous police accounts and features an extra stop made by police on the way to the station, the Baltimore Sun reported Wednesday.

The newspaper obtained the extra cell phone video footage and testimony from neighbors who said they saw the police van stop at the corner of Mount and Baker street – one block away from where Freddie Gray was arrested April 12. Gray later died from severe neck injuries he received while in police custody.

The video shows the back of the parked police van with the doors wide open and Gray laying flat on his stomach halfway out of the van, with his legs hanging off the back. Four officers are seen standing over him and place shackles around his ankles, as Gray lays there motionless.

The images seem to contradict previous police accounts who say Gray was acting “irate” so they pulled over, took him out of the van and placed flex-cuffs on his wrists and shackles around his ankles.

According Michelle Gross, a neighbor who witnessed the event as well as residents who filmed the event with their cell phone but chose to remain nameless, Gray was not moving when the police van had stopped.

The video then shows another officer pull up in a patrol car, get out and walk toward the van. At this time Gross is heard yelling out to Gray “You all right?” but a response was not heard in the recording, while Gross says she did not hear him respond.

Gross and the cell phone videographer are then heard asking for a supervisor, at which point an officer points to Lt. Brian Rice.

Rice, who is one of the officers being charged by Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby with involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault, misconduct in office and false imprisonment, is then heard threatening the two witnesses with his Taser if they do not leave the scene.

According to Mosby, the stop was a key moment in the arrest process into finding out what happened to Gray.

"Following transport from Baker Street, Mr. Gray suffered a severe and critical neck injury as a result of being handcuffed, shackled by his feet and unrestrained inside of the [Baltimore Police Department] wagon," she said.

The State's Attorney also said the officers violated department policy by not securing Gray with a seatbelt, not providing medical care when he needed it and placing Gray in the van head first and on his stomach.

Later than day, Gray was taken from the police station to hospital with a broken neck. He passed away April 19, prompting a wave of protests across Baltimore with people demanding justice.

Mosby has charged six other officers who were involved in Gray's arrest, all of whom are out on bail. The State Attorney has also faced a wave of criticisms from the Baltimore Police Department for laying the charges, and has been warned by the six officers to drop out of the case because of alleged conflict of interests.

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