Opinion | I was the prosecutor in the Freddie Gray case. Here’s what Minneapolis should know.

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Opinion: I was the prosecutor in the Freddie Gray case. Here’s what Minneapolis should know.

Gray was killed as the result of a “rough ride”: He was placed in a metal police wagon head first, feet shackled and handcuffed. The officers, and his spine was partially severed in the back of that wagon. Later, his pleas for medical attention were ignored. As I reviewed the evidence, I considered that my office would prosecute any ordinary citizen for such an appalling act, so there was no reason to have a separate standard of justice for police.

kneeling on Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes while he gasps for air and pleads to breathe. Such evidence would have been the “smoking gun" in Gray’s case, which is why I was perplexed to hear Hennepin County, Minn., District Attorney Michael FreemanThursday that he hadn’t yet pressed charges because he didn’t want to repeat the “rush to charge” and"rush to justice” of the Gray case.

It’s a demonstrably false and bizarre statement. My office announced charges 18 days after Gray’s arrest, following an extensive review of the evidence, which included an autopsy report declaring his death a homicide. In addition to my office deciding there was sufficient probable cause to charge the officers, a grand jury also found probable cause and indicted the officers. The case lasted 15 months. In no world is that a “rush.

 

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