What we are left with is the fact that Mr. Grey was in grave condition when the van ride was over. While res ipsa loquitur can suffice for civil liability; I don’t think it can establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in a criminal context.

We don’t have enough information yet to really judge the quality of the charges, maybe Madame Prosecutor has something that’s not been revealed that solidifies the charges. Far too few details about the autopsy report have been released. So far, however, there’s been no credible allegations of the use of excessive force by any of the six charged officers. The charges don’t even clearly indicate that Goodson conducted a “rough ride.”

Negligence and civil liability? Quite possible.
Criminal liability? Quite uncertain.

“Curley Effect”

from scragged
Mayor James Curley of Boston who was elected to Boston’s Board of Aldermen in 1904 despite being in prison on a fraud conviction when the election was held.

Mayor Curley showed Democrats how to win elections by taxing productive people and channeling the proceeds to less well-off groups. This bought Irish votes. As taxes went higher, productive citizens who tended to vote Republican fled to the suburbs, which tipped the balance further and further in favor of Democratic candidates.

In 1950, Baltimore’s median income was 7% above the national average; in 2011, after 48 years of Democrat misrule, it’s 22% below.

a lot more good stuff here (where i got the above)
http://www.scragged.com/articles/democrat-disaster-cities

She better have some very good and experienced deputies to do the ACTUAL work.

Me too. I’d just assumed it was an actual fact, but according to Andrew Branca at Legal Insurrection, the Gray family’s lawyer, William Murphy, is the “only source” of that claim, which Murphy says “is particularly relevant because while I can imagine scenarios in which Gray’s death was not the result of criminal malice by the police, these scenarios become far less likely if a crushed larynx is in fact among the injuries suffered.”