http://dailykos.com/story/2015/05/04/1382333/-Police-at-Station-with-FreddieGray-s-Limp-Body-We-gave-him-a-run-for-his-money?detail=email
Now that charges have been filed in the Police Murder of Freddie Gray we've begun to hear the excuses and counter claims that the Prosecutor "Overcharged", was "Politically Motivated" in submitting the indictments making these 6 Officers into "Political Prisƒoners".
But besides the cell phone and surveillance video we also have one lone audio witness who was in the van with Freddie Gray very soon after her suffered his fatal injuriies, and although it was reported by the Washington Post that he told police that Mr Gray was "banging his head as if to injury himself" in this interview with WBAL reporter Jayne Miller that witness, Danta Allen completely and totally debunks that claim.
As Mr Allen describes he never saw Freddie Gray as they were separated from each other by a metal barrier. He didn't even know anyone else was in the van at all. But he was enough to hear what happened. He makes a number of relevant statements.
There's no space in there, where a man could hurt himself, intentionally, by himself, before he got in that van he was hurt. He was already deteriorating. I know this for a fact because when we got to the police station he was dead.
And yes we know that Freddie actually survived for sometime after the incident, but the record does show that when paramedics finally did attend to him at the police station, he had no pulse. They were able, eventually, to restart his heart but at that point he was functionally dead.
He gets to the part about "banging" when Ms. Miller asks him about whether he knew someone else was in the van.
I did not know a prisoner was... I had it in my mind that somebody might be in this van because I heard little banging. The little banging that I heard I thought he was hitting his head, I did not know what was going on right? Until I got to the police station and I'm like, "Oh, they playing games." When I got out at the police station, they did not hear me when I heard them say "We Gave Him a Run For His Money!".
Ms Miller than asks did you tell police you heard Mr. Gray "Banging his head"?
I told homicide that.
He then goes on to explain that the banging he heard wasn't violent or vicious in anyway. it wasn't hard or loud enough to cause injury, as he demonstrates by tapping on a nearby railing. It was as if a limb body was banging against the inner walls of the cell in the van as it drove along.
When I got in the van I didn't hear nothing, It was a smooth ride. We went straight to the police station. All I heard a little banging for about 4 seconds, and I'm thinking he's banging his head the whole time. Now I know they did something to him and his body been wobbling back there, yo. Cuz he can't hurt himself in the back of no paddy wagon.
He goes on to describe how Officers at the station claimed that Freddie "must have swallowed something" once he was revived by paramedics which is what we've heard via an anonymous police sources who spoke with Megyn Kelly.
well it would seem the police were not as forth coming as right wing media is trying to portray them and the FOP lawyer "they did nothing wrong". is that crack about he must have swallowed something a thinly veiled attempt to switch blame to paramedics? when you start offering ridiculous excuses to make your involvement minimal or non existent it's like the proverbial "first sign" of guilt.
why was the witnesses account stifled while they put out their version of his account and what about the ten day get the lie straight police bill of rights lunacy they framed it the way they wanted but like the right wing maybe they expected the witness to corroborate their version of his testimony, shades of Bill O'Reilly. speaking with Megyn Kelly really puts a dark cloud over whatever is said or alleged to have been said her mission is first and foremost make the Black victim the the cause for police aggression resulting in death.
i worry about these witnesses against police cover ups God Bless them from those they expose.
