Freddie Gray

I believe that society let him down. It all started back when his mother had gotten pregnant. Her blood was filled with lead and thus when he was born his blood had lead in it as well. As he grew older and continued being stuck in the horrible neighborhood he was forced to grow up in, he developed even more lead in his blood and this impaired his thinking abilities as well as physical functions. He had trouble focusing and paying attention and his reading and writing abilities were much lesser than of someone from other better neighborhoods. His whole life he was stuck in the dumps and he couldn’t get out.

Freddie was a nice and genuinely funny guy when it came to his personality. Even though he had trouble doing some everyday tasks for us; like reading and writing he still found a way to be cheery. But all the fun he had eventually got him in trouble. This kept getting him in trouble until for years until the one time he got in trouble and he couldn’t come back from it. Freddie had, had many different little harmless crimes over the years like drug possession and other little things of that nature. But one day he wasn’t even smoking weed or doing anything illegal but he got caught up in the wrong area at the wrong time and he ran from the police when they showed up. They then jostled him around a little bit and he ended up damaging his spinal cord and this later led to his death.

                Freddie was a well-liked man in the community that never left the place he was born and raised. I believe if Freddie would have been raised in a better neighborhood that maybe he would have had a fighting chance. When he is stuck in a place that attracts the scum of the earth it is hard to get out. He was just a product of bad habits that were all influenced by the community around him. It was hard for him to control but it was the place he had to be, because that is the place where all his problems began.