Was This A Case of Police Brutality in Baltimore? - July 27 2024

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🗓️ 27 July 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:02.6	Police arrives, I found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:06.0	We have a weird homicide.
0:08.8	A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...
0:13.0	A cup of murder.
0:14.8	Police brutality is a subject we've covered a few times on the show.
0:18.9	Usually, though, they are incidents that take place with the eyes
0:22.6	of the public watching. On July 27, 2016, charges were dropped in a case that saw a man's life
0:30.0	taken during a series of events not witnessed by anyone other than the officers involved. A case that still leaves many wondering what exactly happened behind the closed doors of a police fan.
0:44.4	So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.
0:51.7	Freddie Carlos Gray Jr., born August 16, 1989, was at the time of our story
0:57.7	25 years old. He was a son, a brother to twin sisters, as well as another sister, and was living in a
1:04.7	home owned by one of his siblings in the Gilmore Holmes neighborhood of Baltimore. He was also a young man who had some run-ins with the police in the past
1:13.9	and had a record that included drug charges and a few other minor crimes
1:18.9	that earned him some jail time.
1:21.1	And on April 12, 2015, he would have another interaction with the police
1:26.0	that would end up placing his life in danger.
1:29.3	On that day, Freddie was arrested by the Baltimore Police Department
1:32.5	over what the former prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, said was his legal possession of a knife.
1:39.9	Arrested in the streets near his home, an area known for its high level of home foreclosures, poverty, drug deals, and violent crimes.
1:48.3	This run-in came weeks after Maryland requested, quote, enhanced drug enforcement efforts in the neighborhood.
1:55.6	And as a result, Lieutenant Brian W. Rice, Officer Edward Nero, and Officer Garrett E. Miller, were patrolling the area on their bikes.
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