as you just heard the prosecutor in charge of that case making the announcement yesterday morning. that gray s death was a homicide. the medical exampler has determined he died from fatal spine injuries after he was arrested. mr. gray suffered a severe and critical neck injury as a result of being hand curved shackled by his feet and unrestrained underof the bpd wagon. mosby says freddie gray should never have been arrested in the first place. he was accused of carrying an illegal switch blade. the prosecutor said it was a legal knife for him to be carrying and gray was arrested under false pretenses. the six officers seen in these mug shots, all of them acoused of assault and misconduct and four charged with involuntary manslaughter. three with false imprisonment. facing the most serious charges,
there any altercation between them at all in terms of putting the suspect under arrest? is did they hit him? absolutely not. they told me that you know they chased him because he ran and the place that he ran from it s a place where he s commonly been locked up for selling drugs out of that alley. it wouldn t surprise me that the reason that he ran was he was probably dirty, he was probably selling drugs and at no time did they say they used any use of force. did they say why they arrested him in the first place? they ve come under criticism saying well they looked at him, he looked at them and then he ran. there s no crime for doing that. if that happened between me and a police officer, he wouldn t have the right to place me under arrest even if he found a switch blade on me which was the second part of the story. i mean one thing that they re taught is unprovoked
flight. he ran, which at that point you re unprovoked the police didn t throw rocks at him, the police didn t threaten him in any sort of manner. when freddie saw the police he ran, which is unprovoked flight. so the officers have every right to pursue him to find out why he was running for. just so happens that when they got to him, he had a switch blade on him. whether that s the reason he ran, you know i don t know. he could have had drugs. it s not an uncommon thing that when you know the people that are running if we can t find him, we can t charge him just because they ran. we have to have some sort of crime. what was he s he being charged with here? he was charged with a switch blade, i guess. but it doesn t my personal guess to this and this is just me speculating, is that he was committing some he was
this is the t catalyst of change. the city will see a big improvement. i appreciate it. we re going to continue our coverage here. we re waiting for the mayor to give a live news conference coming up in moments. this will be the first time the mayor is speaking after we heard from the state s attorney marilyn mosby coming out leveling charges and indictments against all six officers that were involved in connection to the death of freddie gray. freddie gray was taken into custody april 12th after being apprehended for suspicious behavior. he ran, fled on foot from four bike officers. they followed him. they said in the report they had suspected him of having a switchblade on his right pocket. when they apprehended him, they reported they did find a switchblade. they charged him with having a switchblade. the charging document i have here is a lie. the charging document that says he had a switchblade is a lie.
vail. mosby went on to detail how officers found a knife on gray that gray had alledgedly in his position the subject of what gray was charged with. officers miller and naro placed mr. gray in a seated position and subsequently found a knife clipped to the inside of his pants pocket. the blade of the knife was folded into the handle. the knife was not a switchblade and is lawful under maryland law. these officers subsequently removed the knife and placed it on the sidewalk. she then describes how freddie gray received the fatal neck injury. following transport from baker street, mr. gray suffer issed a severe and critical neck injury as a result of being handcuffed shackled by his feet, and unrestrained inside of the bpd wagon. then it headed to the second