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Thanks for the info. When

NCD — Sat, 02 May 2015 21:20:35 +0000

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.

NCD... Just a note...

oldenGoldenDecoy — Sat, 02 May 2015 17:58:25 +0000

In reply to The NYT piece notes a case of

NCD... Just a note...

Gray was not put into a seatbelt, he was handcuffed.

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:

8:46 a.m.

Stop No. 1 Ms. Mosby said Lieutenant Rice directed the van driver, Officer Caesar R. Goodson Jr., to stop. She said Officers Miller and Nero and Lieutenant Rice removed Mr. Gray from the van and placed him in leg restraints. Mr. Gray was loaded head first onto the floor of the van, Ms. Mosby said.

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~

The NYT piece notes a case of

NCD — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 23:13:27 +0000

In reply to NYT-Baltimore Cops, Gray and the 'Rough Ride' Assault

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.