I said I would be interested. As things would have it, the next case happened to be Freddie Gray. But I didn't start immediately on that case once the investigation started. I think police saw that public trust had eroded after Gray's death, and Batts wanted some way to show the public that detectives really did want to get to the bottom of how Gray was injured. So police remembered that I had been approached about embedding into a use-of-force case, and I joined in about midway through the task force's work.