Had Freddie Gray lived, would he be in prison?

Freddie Gray was picked up for no good reason (the State’s Attorney says the knife he was carrying was legal, though one of the officers arrested in his death disagrees). So had he not received that fatal spinal injury while in the custody of the Baltimore police department (and we most likely would never have …

Once more with feeling: Violence didn’t start with Freddie Gray’s funeral

It started with Freddie Gray’s death while in the custody of the Baltimore police department. A meditation by Rebecca Traister, at The New Republic, which includes this: Violence broke out and erupted not when students threw stones at police, but when Freddie Gray suffered a spinal cord injury while in police custody, and, eventually, died. But somehow …