So Freddy Gray was given a "rough ride" while shackled in a police van resulting in a fractured cervical spine, multiple other injuries, and death on a journey that should have taken three minutes but took much longer. By the time the expired Mr. Gray was brought to medical attention, no amount of whitewash could cover up the stench of what a racist police department inflicted on a citizen arrested for a non-violent crime. So what if half of the involved officers were back--they were still co-conspirators in what could only be described as a racially motivated miscarriage of justice.
And now the "alleged" perpetrators of this horror are begging off being tried in the City which heretofore they had been paid to "protect and serve."
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Now this must strike some as bizarre--it certainly strikes me that way. What excuse can possibly validly uphold the reprehensible actions of those charged. The only thing a jury needs to determine is Not whether the actions were illegal, but whether or not each charged individual was an actual participant in this "rough ride".
There is nothing else to decide--were they participants in this betrayal of justice or were they not. That the acts themselves were heinous cannot be doubted.