Baltimore Officer Says It’s Dangerous To Seatbelt Prisoners

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore officer that arrested a black man who later suffered fatal injuries in a police van testified at the van driver’s disciplinary hearing Wednesday that he still considers it dangerous to put a seatbelt on an uncooperative prisoner in the confines of a police van, even though current police policy now requires it.
Until a few days before Freddie Gray’s 2015 arrest, the department’s policy had allowed for police discretion for safety reasons whe