Late Wednesday night,
The Washington Post reported played stenographer for the Baltimore Police Department, publishing a leaked document that
suggested Freddie Gray somehow managed to sever his own spinal cord and crush his own larynx, based on a statement by a second prisoner in the police van on the day Gray suffered his fatal injuries.
This laughable piece of hacktacular stenography was immediately debunked by WBAL's Jayne Miller—who along with the entire WBAL team has provided outstanding coverage of this story since Day One—along with an appearance on MSNBC on Thursday morning where she pointed out that the second prisoner has "what we call 'a number of years hanging over your head' because he has a suspended prison sentence for a previous crime," and that he has given conflicting statements on what he heard that fateful day.
But never mind all that reality and those pesky facts because the media has a story and they're running with it. Here's just a few examples of stenography-by-proxy:
So kudos to the Baltimore Police Department. Mission accomplished. The seed was sown and the (poison) plant is spreading nicely.
9:30 AM PT: Go figure:
Johns Hopkins doctor: "There are 12,000 spinal cord injuries per year. There was one self-inflicted one. In Japan. In 2002."
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— @Bobblespeak