Recently 25 year old Freddie Gray died
after injuries sustained after his arrest in Baltimore by police.
This has led to riots, protest, and multiple injuries. But first I'm
gonna go back to what caused this to happen. I am gonna try and be as
factual as I can be while writing this because this is all still
under investigation and not all of the information has been released.
Every day more comes out that makes me go “Okay, but...” and “I
get that, but...”
To me a lot of what is wrong with this
case, the people involved, and not to sound like a hippie, the
system, is the procedures that are in place.
Gray lived at home with his two
sisters, one of whom was his twin. He had been arrested a lot of
times. A lot. It is shown that he was arrested 22 times for various
crimes, primarily drug related and some assaults. There has been 20
cases against him in court with five of them still being active. I'm
not writing this stuff to paint this guy as a criminal. He was a
criminal. That isn't even a question. I'm just stating what I believe
are facts. But criminal or not he didn't deserve what happened.
