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Originally Posted by icenine
As an expert in x-raying necks in Emergency Rooms for the last 20 years my gut tells me that he was not severely injured before the van although it is a possiblility. He most assuredly was not given the proper standard of care for those with suspected spinal cord/neck injury: a trip to the ER in an ambulance with full c-spine precautions i.e. neck brace and and strapped to a spine board.
Maybe the police were more focused on the nickel ride that calling 911 for an ambulance. Has their internal investigation given a sequence of events  ? |
The way this guy was screaming and the way he was dragged to the police van indicated to me that he was hurt pretty badly when the cops got to him. If there's some way to prove that something was done to him to in the van to almost sever his spine, hopefully that will come out. It's pretty hard to sever a spine. The only way I think that could have happened is if one or more of the officers stomped him, and stomped him severely in the van...which I suppose is possible. The crushed larynx is disturbing though. I'm not sure you can make the kind of noise Gray was making when videoed being dragged into the cop van, or ask for medical care as the police confirmed he did, with a crushed larynx. So maybe that's evidence enough that he was stomped in the van. But the undeniable fact that we have so far, as confirmed by the Mayor of Baltimore and the Baltimore Police Commissioner, is that Gray pleaded for medical care and the cops ignored him. They killed the guy.