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Marilyn said that today in her statement. he had a legal, lawful pocket knife that was regular to have under maryland law and not spring activated device as the police charged him with, as the police had written in their report. also writing in their report he was taken into custody without force or incident. we have seen the cell phone video that people and neighbors in that community captured themselves. it doesn t match up. stories have not matched up. now we have new details from the independent investigation levelled by the state s a attorney s office. wbal investigative reporter jane miller here. i m trying to figure out what they re unloading. more cots. your reporting and how it s matching up to what we re hearing about this charging document is a lie. it talks about the fact he had the automatic spring. ....
Knife commonly known as a switchblade with automatic spring or device for opening and closing. the question we re still trying to look into is what would have been the probable cause for the stop because the narrative in this documentk thomas states that the switchblade was found once he was stopped. the actual narrative written by the police officer says that freddie gray fled unprovoked upon noticing police presence. that was according to this charging document the reason for the initial stop. once the defendant was apprehended, the officer noticed the knife was clipped in his front right pocket. two questions this raises is number one, whether or not there was probable cause for the officers to stop gray in the first place before they noticed the switchblade. ....