On April 12, 2015, 25-year-old Freddie Gray, an African American, was taken into custody by the Baltimore Police Department for possession of a switchblade. During transport, Gray had experienced what was described by officers as a “medical emergency”; within an hour of his arrest, Gray had fallen into a coma and had been taken to a trauma center, where it was determined that he had suffered a spinal injury. According to his family, Gray’s spine was “80% severed” at his neck, he had three fractured vertebrae, and his larynx was injured.
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