I lived just outside of Baltimore City and worked in Baltimore City at night, during the Freddie Gray riots.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/us/freddie-gray-autopsy-report-given-to-baltimore-prosecutors.html I lived just outside of Baltimore City and worked in Baltimore City at night, during the Freddie Gray riots. I remember seeing the smoke and fires the Friday night after he died and seeing the boarded up windows and destroyed buildings the next morning on my way home. Then over the weekend and Monday seeing smoke rise up from the city while I sat on our stoop. To be 100% honest, from everything I’ve read and my gut, something odd happened in the back of that van. It could be anything on the spectrum from a “rough ride” to refusal of medical treatment. The community and the prosecutors rushed to judgment, leading to riots and harsh charges without first gathering all the facts. This then lead to a rushed and uninformative trial. If everyone would have taken a minute to breathe and think, they might have convicted some of these officers. But a Walgreens was looted and set on fire a...