The "maybe it happened like this!" theories to explain the unsolved mystery of how Freddie Gray died from severe spinal injuries after Baltimore police arrested him -- besides that police severed his spine, because that could not possibly be the explanation -- continue. Conservatives were gleefully sure that his fatal injuries
I was growing up at that time, and had a father and an older brother flying jets in the USAF. I was at least as dialed in to US foreign policy and world events as any teenager... because I lived through a bunch of it with my family... Cuba, Tonkin, the rest of the war in SE Asia...
Yet they stopped the van to put him in leg irons - hardly what you'd do to a man who can't move his legs. Somewhere between that moment and his being taken from the van, his spine got busted. We can expect to be told that he "fell down" during a bumpy ride and banged his head, hard enough to break his neck (the absence of a head wound being just one of those unexplained mysteries.) Cops will get a wrist-slap for not buckling his seat belt, the family will settle a civil suit for $$$$, and that will be that.
It wasn't crushed! It was simply pining for the fjords
I think he was collecting rocks in the backpack for the riots that were about to happen.
WINGNUTS WOULD BUY THIS LINE
Rocks? OR ROCKET LAUNCHERS?!11!!!
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"Personal Responsibility" only applies to Others-- Minorities, women and the darker-skinned people.
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz blame Obama.
Is there any more evidence for this "stand down" order than the Benghazi!!!1! order?
I've seen better.
1/10 would not be trolled again.
Man, that three strikes rule is getting tough.
SCIENCE!
This is just like the time I snapped my own neck to get out of speeding ticket. I mean who among us hasn't tried to pull that off?
I don't know that is was convenient. Might of had to go out of their way a block or so. No problem for them each and either way.
I was growing up at that time, and had a father and an older brother flying jets in the USAF. I was at least as dialed in to US foreign policy and world events as any teenager... because I lived through a bunch of it with my family... Cuba, Tonkin, the rest of the war in SE Asia...
Yet they stopped the van to put him in leg irons - hardly what you'd do to a man who can't move his legs. Somewhere between that moment and his being taken from the van, his spine got busted. We can expect to be told that he "fell down" during a bumpy ride and banged his head, hard enough to break his neck (the absence of a head wound being just one of those unexplained mysteries.) Cops will get a wrist-slap for not buckling his seat belt, the family will settle a civil suit for $$$$, and that will be that.
Probably you're right about "most of us". I just wanted to be counted out.
My first thought when I heard about Freddie Gray was:
September '77Port Elizabeth weather fineIt was business as usualIn Police Room 619
I've been listening that that song a lot lately
("Biko", Peter Gabriel)