BALTIMORE — A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he could hear Gray “banging against the walls” of the vehicle and believed that he “was intentionally trying to injure himself,” according to a police document obtained by The Washington Post.
The prisoner, who is currently in jail, was separated from Gray by a metal partition and could not see him. His statement is contained in an application for a search warrant, which is sealed by the court. The Post was given the document under the condition that the prisoner not be named because the person who provided it feared for the inmate’s safety.
The document, written by a Baltimore police investigator, offers the first glimpse of what might have happened inside the van. It is not clear whether any additional evidence backs up the prisoner’s version, which is just one piece of a much larger probe.
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Both Freddie and his sister would have won a case against their mom’s landlord for all the lead paint they were exposed to as children.
(Apparently their drug addicted mom allowed them to peel paint from the walls and eat it for years.)
The case ended when they failed to show up in court.
But looking at them I’d say it is fair to conclude they both were poisoned by lead.
The now-adult sister has the shakes just like a ”mad hatter.”
Freddie was assigned to the special ed classes and never finished school.
When I was quite young I saw a cat that had been hit by a car struggle to a curb then begin bashing its own head on the curb. Before it could kill itself a man killed it with a shovel.
I wonder if Freddie (as brain and nerve damaged as he was) was aware he was dying in the van and trying to kill himself?