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Freddie Gray Severed His Own Spine Just Like Steve Biko Died of a 'Hunger Strike'
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Freddie Gray Severed His Own Spine Just Like Steve Biko Died of a 'Hunger Strike' By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org | 30 April 2015 | Last night we read: A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he could hear Gray “banging against the walls” of the vehicle and believed that he “was intentionally trying to injure himself,“ according to a police document obtained by The Washington Post. (See: Prisoner in van said Freddie Gray was 'banging against the walls' during ride 29 April 2015.) Recall the death, decades earlier, of South African anti-apartheid activist, Stephen Bantu Biko. The founder of the Black Consciousness Movement also died in police custody — but the cause of his death was similarly reported to the world as 'self-inflicted' an alleged hunger strike. “On 18 August 1977, Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 and interrogated by officers of the Port Elizabeth security police.” (Wikipedia) The New York Times (Young Black Leader Dies in Detention in South Africa, Raising Fears of New Unrest,' 13 Sept. 1977) noted: “Steven Biko, probably the most influential young black leader in South Africa, died while in police detention last night, allegedly after a hunger striker, and there were fears that his death could increase racial tension. Justice Minister James T. Kruger said in a statement that Mr. Biko, who was 30 years old, had died in a hospital in Pretoria, the administrative capital, after refusing food and water since Sept. 5.” The BBC reported: “It is understood Mr Biko died in hospital in Pretoria. The government minister of Justice and Police, James Kruger, stated that Mr Biko had been transferred 740 miles (1,191 km) from Port Elizabeth to Pretoria for medical attention following a seven-day hunger strike.” In fact, Steve Biko was beaten and tortured by police, and died as a result of the injuries, en route to a Pretoria hospital. Only after banned South African journalist Donald James Woods smuggled out Biko's autopsy photos did the world learn of the truth about the death of Steve Biko.
Source: http://www.legitgov.org/Freddie-Gray-Severed-His-Own-Spine-Just-Steve-Biko-Died-Hunger-Strike
