the corner of west north avenue and north mount street where freddie gray is described as hanging out with a friend. four police officers pull up on bikes, and after making eye contact with one of them, according to multiple accounts gray takes off running. according to police charging documents gray was arrested without force or incident but eye about anses describe gray crying out in pain and being handled roughly by officers loading him into the police van. part of which you can see in that infamous cell phone video. minutes later the van comes to a stop about a block away at the corner of north mount street and baker street. now, according to police the driver stops to fill out paperwork and he says gray is acting irate in the back of the van. at this point freddie gray is removed from the van and placed in leg irons. once again, that s caught on camera by a bistandard.
freddie gray. mr. downs, your response your reaction to clarify about what he did and did not hear what he did and did not see in the van. i think it s important that we first start the discussion by distinguishing between facts and speculation and the fact is very clear. there s a metal divide ner the van, so this individual did not have the opportunity to see mr. gray. it s important to start with that fact, and it s also important to note that this gentleman just said clearly he heard what he is calling a light banging or and a little banging. we should also focus on the fact that you should not check your commonsense at the door just because the law is involved.
is confusing. es. he was unresponsive when the paramedics finally got there because there is some confusion about the way the call went out, so the paramedics thought they were going to answer a call for a broken arm. not a nonbreathing person. that s a real significant difference because time is of the essence with this kind of swrr. this is the swrr that is similar to the christopher reeves injury with the severe broken neck spinal injury, and the whole key is to get care quickly. we believe now based on this disclosure of this additional stop of the van, that the injury most likely would have occurred in probably the first ten, 12 15 minutes of this ride which means it was another pretty substantial time before he actually got medical care. that s going to be the key to this case.
this case is all i know i know the video is there, and there s the video of what happened in the initial arrest. there s no video of what goz inside the van, but the information that was turned over today by the baltimore police department to the baltimore city prosecutor s office, the state s attorney s office, confirms what we have been reporting and that is that what happened to him happened according to the autopsy and the medical evidence in this case. it happened inside that police wagon. this is all about when did it happen? why did it happen? what police did not do to first of all secure him and also to take care of him after he was swrurd. also, i will add, that it also involves the somewhat controversial element of why they arrested him in the first place. all of that is in play but the autopsy does not have any evidence in it any information in it that he was injured during
to take it. when people say they give someone a run for their money they got over on them or did something to them physically or mentally that was wrong. you feel what i m saying? that s what i took at it as. did you say you thought he was banging his head against the van. i told homicide he had i told homicide he had to be banging his head because i didn t know what was going on. he had to be banging husband head against the rim because i did not know the police beat him up or anything at that time. when we got to the mregs, i m putting ath all the pieces to the puzzle together. they wrote me a citation and they didn t give it to me. joining me now jane miller wbal investigative reporter who conducted that interview. we have trumane lee live in west baltimore. this is really key, and i don t feel there is a lot going on here. you can read let s say, a lot of pathos into this gentleman essentially wanting to come forward. wronk it s too much to say to clear his name essentially