Did Freddie Gray throw himself against the walls of the police van carrying him in an attempt to be taken to a hospital instead of jail, after officers dismissed his claim to be injured?  That is the implication of a document provided to Washington Post reporter Peter Hermann by an anonymous source. A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he could hear Gray “banging against the walls” of the vehicle and believed that he “was intentionally trying to injure himself,” according to a police document obtained by The Washington Post. The document was written by a Baltimore police investigator, part of an affidavit for a warrant seeking the seizure of a uniform worn by one of the officers involved in arresting Gray.  As such, it is sworn testimony under the penalty of perjury.  But as Paul Mirengoff of Powerline notes, it is not clear if the words of the affidavit are from the other suspect, or from...(Read Full Post)