Unlike Freddie Gray,who died in custody, Keith Davis was shot in the face but survived. A jury cleared him on 14 counts but convicted him of gun possessionFor the more than 240 days since Keith Davis was shot in the face by Baltimore police, and he has nursed his wounds from a jail cell,facing a barrage of charges on allegations that he robbed an unlicensed cab driver and fled. Davis was the first police-involved shooting since the death of Freddie Gray in police custody set off citywide protests in April. And while Gray became a household name as representative of the more than 1000 people who are killed by police each year, activists have held up Davis as an example of how Gray and others like him might have been treated by the law enforcement system whether they had lived. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com