With each incident of police violence unleashed
on yet another unarmed African-American – another wave of consciousness sweeps
the country as new rebellious uprisings emerge.
There are black and brown communities all over the country – the
constant targets of police violence – who have said no more and are actively
galvanizing, mobilizing, organizing and yes, resisting. There is something emerging in this country
that can longer be contained – and we recently bore witness to that in
Baltimore, Maryland.
For the last two months there’s been relatively two
burning questions asked by those in and out of Baltimore -
what exactly happened to Freddy Gray and
how did he die? Since Mr. Gray died from horrific spinal injuries
occurring while in police custody - these questions were left unanswered only
for the public to draw their own conclusions – until now. The recent “leaking” of the autopsy report to
the Baltimore Sun is supposed to finally address these questions. The “
leaked” autopsy report revealed that Mr. Gray
suffered from what the report described as a “high energy” injury while making
a comparison to injuries suffered from shallow-water diving accidents. The
report states:
The type of
fracture/dislocation documented in imaging studies on admission is a high
energy injury most often caused by abrupt deceleration of a rotated head on a
hyperflexed neck, such as seen in shallow water diving incidents.”
