Mosby said police found Gray was carrying a knife, and the state’s attorney investigation determined that though the blade did fold, it was not a switchblade, meaning the knife he had was legal under Baltimore law. Mosby said today officers “failed to establish probable cause” and “illegally arrested” Gray as a result.
After traveling one block from the original point where police picked up Gray, they stopped at Mount and Baker streets and took him out of the back of the vehicle.
The wagon then went to pick up another individual arrested on North and Pennsylvania avenues, at which point five officers, including Porter, were present and saw that Gray was unresponsive in the back of the wagon.
It was only after the wagon arrived at Western District Police Station and after the second man who had been arrested at North and Pennsylvania avenues was unloaded was a medic called to assess Gray, who was “no longer breathing at all,” Mosby said.