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- New cellphone video sheds light on Freddie Gray’s fatal journey in a Baltimore
police van. The footage obtained by The Baltimore Sun shows Gray lying
motionless as several police officers shackle his ankles and load him into the
vehicle. It appears to contradict earlier police claims that Gray was "irate"
and "combative." One of the officers, Lt. Brian Rice, reportedly threatened to
use his Taser on the eyewitness who was filming. We are joined by Matt Taibbi,
whose latest article for Rolling Stone is "Why Baltimore Blew Up." He writes,
"Instead of using the incident to talk about a campaign of hundreds of
thousands, if not millions, of illegal searches and arrests across decades of
discriminatory policing policies, the debate revolved around whether or not the
teenagers who set fire to two West Baltimore CVS stores after Gray’s death were
“thugs,” or merely wrongheaded criminals."
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