The setting of the arrest -- Why did Freddie run? -- Baltimore and Freddie and lead -- Freddie goes to school -- The autopsy report and the charges -- Constructing the charges and the defense -- When did they really break his neck? -- What they said at the trials -- Ethics and the medical profession : doctors as expert witnesses.
Summary:
"This book is about Freddie Gray, a young black man who died in police custody in Baltimore as a result of a broken neck. Six officers were subsequently tried, but the trials of three were dismissed and the others were found not guilty on various charges. The charges were incorrectly placed by Attorney General of Baltimore City Marilyn Mosby. Mosby relied on the autopsy report which, in turn, took its opinion of the timing of Gray's death from the self-invested Baltimore Police. It didn't happen in the van: the arresting officers broke his neck. The media perpetuated Mosby's misreading of the report which confused opinion with formal, medical, forensic evidence, thereby reinforcing both the misplaced charges and public misunderstanding, and facilitating the consequent injustice that set Baltimore on fire. This book takes apart the process and testimony of the trial from an informed medical point of view. It critiques the prosecution, the autopsy report, and th testimony of the expert witnesses. It reviews the important medical concepts necessary to evaluating what happened, and the medical ethics which should (but did not) prevail in such cases. This book should be of broad interest: to those concerned with the processes of racial injustice in America generally; to those concerned with medico-legal ethics; to medical and legal educators and their students."--Back cover.
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