Quote Originally Posted by spyder View Post
The Supreme Court, and Maryland Courts have ruled that an unprovoked flight (running) is grounds for suspicion that a crime has been committed, and makes it legal for the cops to give chase, and stop you. Since this happened in a high crime area, the cops had all the right according to Maryland law to chase him, stop him for questioning, and to frisk him... without more though, there can't be an arrest. However, the guy had a pocket knife on him, and that was the charge that all of this has happened on, the knife he was carrying was said to be a switchblade "spring assisted knife" which is illegal.

So, the guy saw the cops and ran... cops gave chase, stopped him, frisked him and found the knife, and decided to take him in on the knife charge. The rest is now in the news-ish... Still need to figure out when the neck break happened.

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I think this was part of the problem. As it was stated, it was a utility knife which was legal, not a switchblade. It appears there were some inconsistencies with what was reported and what actually happened. I think the idea of him breaking his own neck while hog tied raised some doubts as well. Oh well, it's hard to ever know what actually happened with the varying media outlets. Hopefully justice will prevail in any case.