359 views

2:13

Watch
- Search Videos
  
  Advanced search »
- Submit a New Video
Discuss
About
- Try clicking on the various channels to see videos posted to that channel - if you're into music you can click the Music channel to get more music sifts - go on and explore! Use the "hotness" when you have opened the channel link to get videos that have gotten a lot of votes, or use "newness" to have a look at the new sifts.
  When browsing sifts you like, have a look at the Related Posts list to see other related videos, click the tags under the video title to see more sifts tagged with the same tags or have a look at other sifts from the same user in the More Posts By list. If the sifted video is in a play list, have a look at the play list to see other interesting videos the Sift users have linked together.
  Enter the Sift Lounge to chat with online sifters about anything and everything, or read interesting posts in the Sift Talk forum.
  The Top New Videos list is always full of interesting, current videos. It is always recommended that you have a look through the Top New Videos, but also have a look at these:
  - Upcoming Unsifted Videos - active video submissions that neither are published to the front page nor archived to the submitter's personal queue
- Have you seen a really funny, surprising, scary, interesting, cute or in any other way extra good quality video?
  Post and share it here - VideoSift is the best video aggregator on the Web, where we share, discuss, promote, and interact with the best videos out there on the web. Post it here, and share it with the large community of video-interested users. And - you are guaranteed to find more very good videos here already!
  Mind you, we only share videos you discover that someone else has made; if you "self link," by posting a video you have made, have posted or have interests in, you risk the ban hammer - read the posting guidelines before posting. The sift is NOT for promoting your own videos - it is for sharing videos others have made.
  Submit a Video Now »
Login

On Today's Episode Of Cop's Gone Wild....

submitted by newtboy

9 years 7 months 2 weeks ago

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A man is in critical condition following a videotaped encounter with city police. But questions still remain about what happened in the moments after the arrest that put him in the hospital.

Christie Ileto spoke with witnesses about the incident.

Witnesses describe the arrest as brutal. His family tells WJZ Freddie Gray now has spinal injuries. But police say when they saw the video, there was no use of excessive force.

Witnesses capture the final moments of an arrest that sends a man to Shock Trauma.
“At no time, and I’ve seen the video a number of times, did I see a use of force at that moment,” said Deputy Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez, Baltimore City Police Department.

Baltimore police won’t reveal the reason why bike cops stopped the fleeing individual family members have identified as 26-year-old Freddie Gray, but Gray’s stepfather spoke to WJZ by phone, saying he’s barely alive.

“His face is swollen. He just looks really horrible. Like I said, he’s in an induced coma. We’re all praying,” he said.

“I seen police, him handcuffed, him tased while he was handcuffed,” said Gray’s godbrother.

Police say right now there is no evidence Gray was tased. His godbrother just left the ICU and didn’t want his face on camera.

“I seen the police officer bending his leg to the point where it looked like he broke it,” he said.

Police say the video doesn’t show officers using excessive force, but they do suspect the suspect was brought to Maryland Shock Trauma with injuries. So, what happened from the time Gray was arrested to the point when he was brought to the hospital?

“He was completely healthy, fine being carted off aside from his leg,” his godbrother said. “It’s nowhere near how he’s sitting in the ICU right now.”

A gap in time police are working to close, uncovering what happened in the moments that weren’t recorded and how Gray ended up critically injured.

Police say the officers that were involved are on administrative assignment.

Anyone else who witnessed the arrest or has video is being asked to contact police.

2 Comments

Trancecoach

says...

Well, there's no need to click this link unless you're prepared for something very disturbing (albeit just another example of the psychopathy inherent in the police force). I wonder how many more of these "isolated incidents" involving "one bad apple" must we endure before it becomes obvious to everyone that the problem is clearly systemic and completely out of control?