According to reports, more than 1,000 Maryland police officers, the Maryland National Guard, and 5,000 officers from neighboring states are on standby in the city. People have likened the level of reinforcement as the same the city requested during the riots of 1968 after Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated. 15 police officers have been injured and many suffering broken bones and at least one appeared unresponsive. So far, 27 people have been arrested. Also a $16 million nursing home built by a Baptist church which was due to open in December after 8 years of construction has been burned down, gun stores were looted and shops set ablaze.
Meanwhile, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings- Blake branded the rioters "senseless thugs'' in a press conference and she announced a week long 10pm-5am curfew for all citizens starting from today.
Here is a detailed information of what happened between the police and Freddie Gray that caused the riot;
April 12 8:39am: 4 officers stop and arrested Freddie Gary who ran away from the police in Northwest Baltimore after making eye contact
8:40: Gray is arrested after voluntarily stopping
8:42: Officers held him down and handcuffed him and loaded him into a police van. while inside, he became irate and leg cuffs were put on him, Police said
9am: Gray was not buckled in by a seat belt, a violation of the police departments policy
9:26am: He asked for medical help several times, and after 30 minutes ride that included three stops, paramedics were called. Hes suffered mysterious spinal injury in which authorities have not explained how or when it occurred
April 19: Freddie Gray died from a double broken vertebrae after being arrested near Gilmor Homes in Sandtown-Winchester.
1 comment:
This police brutality has to stop. I guess they had a hand in the boys spinal injury.
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