This is my shocked face:

The other prisoner was wrong. Gray asked for medical assistance even before the 2d prisoner was loaded into the police van.

Before the second prisoner was even in the police van, Freddie Gray asked the police for medical assistance.

So you have to wonder why on earth a man who had just asked for help would then try to hurt himself—as the second prisoner supposedly concluded after he was picked up at the next stop a few minutes later.

The opinion of the second prisoner is reportedly contained in a search warrant application prepared by a police investigator and now leaked to the Washington Post.

Somebody leaked the sealed document for a reason just as the police were preparing to turn over the results of their investigation to the Baltimore state’s attorney. There is nothing to stop the police department from also publically disclosing it major findings, as it largely did after its initial investigation soon after Gray’s death.

But what the police have already disclosed is enough to suggest why the second prisoner might have believed Gray was trying to hurt himself—and why he was almost certainly mistaken

After the stop where he asked for medical assistance and medical assistance was denied to him, Gray seems to have resumed signaling his need for help by the only means available; by banging on the inside of the van.