Freddy Gray

Who let Freddie Gray down? Did society let him down, or did the government? I believe it was both. He was born into a rough life, his mom did drugs throughout her pregnancy with him, and which may have caused him to be born early, and when he was born, the doctors found a crazy amount of lead in his blood. He was then diagnosed at a young age with Attention Deficit Disorder. He and his family lived in Baltimore, which historically hasn’t been the greatest place in the United States. In school, he didn’t have the greatest time in school. He had trouble paying attention to his teachers, and reading information out of his books, his writing skills were poor, and he had the hardest time just trying to stay focused on his school work. His whole life was just filled with hardships.

                People say that Freddie Gray was a well like man. If there was something you needed, Freddie would do anything he could to help, even though sometimes his ways weren’t always the most legal, or correct way to do it. He started his life of crime with a lot of small petty crimes. Things like drugs, alcohol, stealing, and vandalism were some things he was arrested for. Then came a day when Freddy decided to go out on the town, and he turned around the wrong corner and his life came tumbling down. The police saw him and started chasing him, and he ran. He wasn’t doing anything wrong at the time, but he knew that he wasn’t going to get away from the cops unless he ran. The cops caught him, and they said they put him in the vehicle, and he was struggling in the back, which caused him to have a spinal cord injury, which then lead to his death.

                The reason why I believe that both society and the government let him down was because as a society, he wasn’t ever given a chance to live a peaceful life. He was doomed to fail his whole life. The government let him down by the police force. Just because he was black, the cops brutally beat him, and assumed he was a trouble maker. He was an overall good man, but had a lot of things he had to overcome. I believe he was wronged, but, there’s nothing we as a society we can do to go back in time to change anything.