"Investigators believe Freddie Gray suffered serious head injuries while he was in a police transport van... his legs were shackled and he wasn�t wearing a seat belt..."

"... which authorities say was a violation of policy. They said officers ignored his pleas for medical help."

One wound occurred when Gray struck his head on a bolt that jutted out in the van, the official said, but that was not Gray�s only head injury. And the injuries overall are consistent with what medical examiners often see in car collisions, the official said.

So, you shackle a man, put him in a van with jutting bolts, and then you drive the van in such a way that he slams into things hard enough to cause multiple injuries, and the man dies of those injuries.

That's worse that shooting a man on the street, where there's some argument of needing to stop him. The shackled man enclosed in a vehicle is already completely restrained. There's no harm to say you needed to stop.

I think of torture devices like the iron maiden, where a helpless person is shut inside something that is designed and intended to injure him.



UPDATE: "Freddie Gray death ruled a homicide; six Baltimore police officers charged."