Video captures post-arrest that left black man hospitalized -- later died

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Cell phone video captures Baltimore arrest that left black man hospitalized in a coma

Reuters
14 Apr 2015


A man was in critical condition in the hospital on Monday after being arrested by several Baltimore police officers in an incident that was at least partly captured on video, police officials said.

Local broadcaster WJZ-TV said family members of the man, who the footage it published showed was black, had identified him as 27-year-old Freddie Gray. He was in an induced coma with spinal injuries, it said.

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“A number of officers made an arrest of a man who fled from them,” Baltimore Police Deputy Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez told a news conference.....


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Cell phone video captures Baltimore arrest that left black man hospitalized in a coma

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It's really a shame that the videographer got there post-event. We might have seen something educational if he/she got there a few minute earlier.

Suspect dies after Baltimore cops break his spine in ‘brutal’ police beating
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Freddie Gray had to undergo a double surgery on three broken vertebrae and an injured voice box on Tuesday, after he was released by the police. He died today after days of remaining in a coma.

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