Man detained with Freddie Gray: "No space in (van) where man can hurt himself intentionally"

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“The key thing to take away is, he did not see Mr. Gray, he couldn’t have seen Mr. Gray,” WBAL-TV’s Jayne Miller said of Donta Allen, who was listed as a source in a police document indicating that Gray purposefully injured himself on the night in question. “I asked him, ‘Did you hear Gray say anything?’ He didn’t hear him say anything.”

“They waited 30 to 35 minutes to get Gray some medical attention because they want to cover their ass,” Allen told Miller. “So now, since they can’t cover their ass on that, they’re trying to use me to cover their ass.”

Miller told Hayes that when police did eventually seek treatment for Gray, paramedics thought they were being dispatched to take care of a broken arm, instead of having to bring him back from not having a pulse when he arrived at the police department’s western district headquarters.

“That’s a really significant difference because time is of the essence with this kind of injury,” saying it was similar to the spinal injury that paralyzed actor Christopher Reeve. She said her station believes Gray was injured during the first 10 to 15 minutes after being placed in the van.


read/watch: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/baltimore-man-detained-with-freddie-gray-police-are-using-me-to-cover-their-ass/

watch both interviews, as aired on Thursday on MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/prisoner-in-van-with-freddie-gray-speaks-out-437306435539


excerpts:

"There's no space in there where no man can hurt himself intentionally by himself"

"All I heard a little banging for a while..four seconds."

"They did something to him, his body been wobbling back there"

"...can't hurt himself in the back of no paddy wagon..."

"I just heard a little banging...I know it was him back there because he was dying."

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