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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
2. Give us a clue?
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 10:52 AM
Jul 2015

Is it that they gave her a 32 gallon trash can, instead of a little 1 gallon one, maybe? That the can has a liner in it again, despite the claims that A) she hung herself with the liner and B) they didn't touch anything in it afterwards? Or something else?

GreatGazoo

(3,937 posts)
5. That's what I see
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 10:59 AM
Jul 2015

also that the can is right in the middle of the cell (more obvious in other pics). The largest trash can you find short of a dumpster, for one person in a cell that lacks...things to throw away.

Why replace the liner? If it was there in the first place (a huge "if&quot and an inmate hung themself with it, why replace it ???

Wanted to see if others see anything else.

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)
3. Also, why the hell does a cell have that big a trash can?
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 10:54 AM
Jul 2015

What kind of trash is a prisoner generating? If it's not attached to the floor, wouldn't authorities worry it could be used as a weapon? Wouldn't authorities be concerned with prisoners using it as a toilet? I know the perspective is skewed on that photo, but it looks like the kind of trash can I leave at the end of the driveway.

GreatGazoo

(3,937 posts)
8. Trash can is big enough to unpack glassware ordered online and shipped with packing peanuts.
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 11:04 AM
Jul 2015

Wait...Trash can is big enough to put a body into and move it past the cameras (?)

Hmmmm

Anansi1171

(793 posts)
10. Also about that phone in her cell...
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 11:12 AM
Jul 2015

...I've heard the voicemail she left a friend, ostensibly from this phone. Yet the morning of her death she asked how to use the phone and upon getting instructions did not actually place a call.

Does not compute.

Igel

(35,356 posts)
16. That has a reasonable answer.
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 12:44 PM
Jul 2015

How long's your phone good for?

I charge up my phone and take it to where I work. Often it's down to 10% charge by the time I leave work 9 hours later. Depends if it gets and holds a signal or if it's always having trouble polling the cell tower.

72 hours? If it's off, it's good. If it was left on, it's a brick.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
7. Maybe the kind and not racists at all police force thought the humongous garbage can would make a more
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 11:03 AM
Jul 2015

comfortable bed?

And they even thought to line the ally-sized can for one cell with a fresh oversized bag for more comfort, but not to be used in a set up, not at all?

Autumn

(45,120 posts)
9. What is the gray spindle thing? It looks like a small trash can under the table
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 11:08 AM
Jul 2015

and a very large trash can that looks out of place in a jail cell. I don't even have that big a trash can in my house.

Anansi1171

(793 posts)
11. looks like a stool that replaced the toilet that used to be...
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 11:14 AM
Jul 2015

...in the cell. You can see the sealant around the base.

matt819

(10,749 posts)
12. Okay, all I know about jails is what I see in these videos and on tv shows
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 11:14 AM
Jul 2015

I'm not in the jail demographic.

But from all the tv shows I see, they have the jailee remove shoe laces so that they don't hang themselves.

And yet this cell has a large rubbermaid style trash bucket with a 30-gallon plastic trash bag. A fucking plastic bag!!?! Plus that arm appearing to hold the camera, convenient for hanging.

This whole case smells, from start to finish. And yet I'll bet there's no one here, except for the handful of police apologists, who believe that the investigation will be thorough, honest, or transparent. That said, Freddie Gray's killers have been indicted, as has that cop in North Charleston, so maybe we'll be surprised?

Gman

(24,780 posts)
17. Everything about this stinks to high heaven
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 12:46 PM
Jul 2015

The supposed self reporter suicide attempt, the trash bag story, the edited video everything. I don't got a second believe the suicide story. And regarding claims of a "technical glitch" in the video. That's just impossible. If part of the video file became corrupted, the corresponding audio would too.

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