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AGAIN, THAT WE HAVE HAD TO TELL
ANOTHER MOTHER THAT THEIR CHILD
IS DEAD.
KATE: MAYOR STEPHANIE
RAWLINGS-BLAKE THIS AFTERNOON
ADDRESSING THE FREDDY GRAY
INVESTIGATION.
STAN: ON
SUNDAY HE WAS TAKEN
INTO CUSTODY, AND SOMETIME
DURING HIS ARREST HE WAS
CRITICALLY INJURED.
JAYNE MILLER TURNED UP
NEW
DETAILS INTO THE TIMELINE OF
WHAT HAPPENED.
AND IN THIS PAST MAY, FREDDY
GRAY DIED FROM HIS INJURIES,
AND
THAT IS ENOUGH TO EVEN MORE OUT
THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY.
TODAY BY MAYOR
STEPHANIE
RAWLINGS-BLAKE ADDRESS THE
INVESTIGATION.
WE WILL BEGIN WITH JAYNE MILLER,
WHO WAS AFTER -- WHO WAS AT THE
MEDIA BRIEFING.
JAYNE:
SIX POLICE OFFICERS
INVOLVED IN THE TRANSPORT AND
ARRESTS OF FREDDY GRAY HAVE ALL
BEEN TO AND STOP -- HAVE ALL
BEEN SUSPENDED.
UNDER THE GLARE OF THE NATIONAL
MEDIA SPOTLIGHT, WHAT REMAINS
ARE TROUBLING RUSSIANS WITHOUT
ANSWERS STOP -- WITHOUT ANSWERS.
POLICE SAY THERE ARE
NOT MANY
ANSWERS IN THE DEATH OF FREDDY
GRAY.
HIS CAUSE OF DEATH WAS SEVERE
SPINAL CORD INJURY.
BUT THERE WERE NO OTHER INJURIES
TO HIS BODY.
CLASS THERE WAS NO OTHER
PHYSICAL INJURY TO HIS BODY THAT
WE SAW, NOR WAS IT EVIDENT IN
THE AUTOPSY.
NONE OF HIS LIMBS WERE BROKEN.
JAYNE:
HE DIED AFTER HER ARREST,
HE FLED UNPROVOKED UPON NOTING
POLICE PRESENCE IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD.
POLICE CHASED HIM DOWN THE
STREET AND CAUGHT HIM.
THE OFFICER NOTICED A KNIFE
CLIPPED INSIDE THE PANTS -- HIS
PANTS POCKET.
THE OFFICER THEN WRITES HE
SUFFERED A MEDICAL EMERGENCY
DURING TRANSPORT, BUT DOES NOT
SAY HOW, WHERE, OR WHEN STOP
FRIDAY, A WITNESS WHO DID NOT
WANT TO BE IDENTIFIED TOLD US
SHE WATCHED HOW POLICE HANDLED
GRAY WHEN THE VAN CARRYING HIM
STOPPED AT A SECOND LOCATION SO
LEG IRONS COULD BE APPLIED.
CLASS THEY THREW HIM FACE DOWN
-- THEY HAD HIM
FACEDOWN AND
HIS LEGS WERE LOCKED UP.
HE WAS LAYING ON HIS STOMACH.
JAYNE:
POLICE NOW CONFIRM THE
VAN WENT ON TO PICK UP ANOTHER
SUSPECT.
AT THAT
POINT, HE WAS
UNRESPONSIVE, BUT NO MEDICAL
WAGON WAS CALLED UNTIL SOMETIME
LATER.
DEPARTMENTAL THE REQUIRES TO
ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THE
DETAINEE IN CUSTODY AND TO
ENSURE MEDICAL TRAINING IS
OBTAINED WHEN REQUESTED.
THE POLICE COMMISSIONER DID
TECHNOLOGY HE DID REQUEST
MEDICAL ATTENTION WHEN HE ASKED
FOR AN INHALER, AND THEN LATER
DURING THE TRANSFER.
THERE WERE SEVERAL TIMES WE
CAN SHOULD HAVE GIVEN HIM
MEDICAL ATTENTION.
HE ASKED FOR AN INHALER.
AT ONE OR TWO OF THE STOPS, IT
WAS NOTED HE WAS NOTED THAT SHE
WAS HAVING A LITTLE TROUBLE
BREATHING.
WE SHOULD HAVE HAD PARAMEDICS
LOOK AT HIM AT THAT TIME.
JAYNE: AND THE COMMISSIONER DID
SAY HE HAS ORDERED BRAND-NEW
PROCEDURES EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
FOR THE HANDLING OF PRISONERS
AND WHEN A REQUEST MEDICAL
ATTENTION.
EXPERTS TELL US THE KIND OF
THERE IS SEVERE SPINAL CORD
INJURY THAT FREDDY GRAY SUFFERED
COULD BE CAUSED BY
SUDDEN
WHIPLASH, SUDDEN MOVEMENT
FORWARD, OR BY STRIKING ONCE
CHAN ON A BIG SO SEVERELY AND