http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/the-mysterious-death-of-freddie-gray/391119/"The police say Gray didn't resist arrest and that officers didn't use force, which seems to be mostly corroborated by video shot by bystanders. Gray seems to shout in pain, and his leg seems injured as officers drag him to a police van. (Someone off camera shouts, "His leg broke and y'all dragging him like that!") Gray also had asthma and requested his inhaler, but didn't get it. Yet it's not the leg or the asthma that killed him. Instead, it was a grave injury to his spinal cord. Gray's family said he was treated for three fractured vertebrae and a crushed voice box, the sorts of injuries that doctors say are usually caused by serious car accidents. The van made at least two stops before reaching the police station, but there's no footage to say what happened during the journey or at those stops.
It's a baffling conundrum. "None of the officers describe any use of force," Deputy Police Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez said. "None of the officers describe using any force against Mr. Gray." And yet somehow Gray was fatally hurt while in police custody."
Eli mustalla tyypillä (ehkä rikollinen, miten vaan) joka ei vastustanut pidätystä ja oli aika kunnossa kun poliisit ottivat kyytiin ilman että vastusti pidätystä, oli myöhehemmin murskattu kurkunpää ja selkäranka sen verran paskana että kuoli siihen. Ja poliisit toki sanovat että kukaan ei tehnyt mitään.
Kyllä tällainen suomessakin vähän herättäisi kysymyksiä, varsinkin jos poliisi on aika lähiaikoina tehnyt muitakin kyseenalaisia juttuja, esim vahingossa ampunut makaavan tyypin kun piti puoliturhaan käyttää lamautinta mutta sekoitti aseen ja etälamauttimen? Tai se ampuja taisi olla joku joka ei edes ollut poliisi mutta pääsi kuitenkin mukaan pidättämään neekereitä?
