NBC Reporter Contradicts WaPo Story on Freddie Gray Injuries

“The medical evidence does not suggest at all that he was able to injure himself.”

The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that they had obtained a police document asserting that Freddie Gray had been “banging against the walls” of the vehicle when he was taken into custody, and believed that he “was intentionally trying to injure himself.”

However, investigative reporter for NBC’s Baltimore affiliate WBAL, Jayne Miller is now disputing that claim — telling the hosts of “Morning Joe” on Thursday: “The medical evidence does not suggest at all that he was able to injure himself. The force of this injury, akin to have the force involved in a car accident with all that momentum going, that is much more force than you would get trying to bang your head against the wall of the van.”

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