MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
'Rough ride?" take a look at the NYT map of where Gray was picked up, and where the police station is, and note the cops made 4 stops while driving in a circle around town...The slang terms mask a dark tradition of police misconduct in which suspects, seated or lying face down and in handcuffs in the back of a police wagon, are jolted and battered by an intentionally rough and bumpy ride that can do as much damage as a police baton without an officer having to administer a blow.... and BTW it is against Baltimore PD procedures to NOT buckle in a suspect, Gray was not put into a seatbelt, he was handcuffed.
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The NYT piece notes a case of a 'rough ride' settled for $900,000 in Chicago:
The same year Mr. Franklin was injured, another handcuffed man suffered a broken neck after he fell off a bench in the back of a police van after the vehicle made a sharp turn
Gray had a broken neck also. After those cases Chicago got rid of the vans, and transported suspects only in squad cars.
by NCD on Thu, 04/30/2015 - 7:13pm
NCD... Just a note...
Not only that but don't overlook the shackles... er I mean leg-restraints and then loaded head first back into the van. From the NYTimes timeline:
Here in Los Angeles in the 50s and 60s the cops called this "a ride in the washing machine." It would "clean up" a perp real good before dragging their arse to a holding cell.
Real cold-blooded assholes.
~OGD~
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by oldenGoldenDecoy on Sat, 05/02/2015 - 1:58pm
Thanks for the info. When they do it in a squad car with a barrier between the front and back seats, they brake hard, and the suspect's face hits the partition, that maneuver is called a 'screen test'.
On April 25 somebody researched the topic and put up a Wikipedia page on it called "Rough ride (police practice), with a list of those paralyzed or killed.
by NCD on Sat, 05/02/2015 - 5:20pm