Several experts have stated that there are no safe levels of lead. When Freddie Gray was just 22-months-old, he already carried 37 micrograms of lead in his blood. Dan Levy, assistant professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University, said when told about Gray’s blood test results: “‘The fact that Mr. Gray had these high levels of lead in all likelihood affected his ability to think and to self-regulate…”. He added, “‘And the real tragedy of lead is that the damage it does is irreparable’”. Freddie Gray often suffered an increase in the amount of micrograms of lead in his blood while living in dilapidated, West Baltimore apartments that had “peeling” lead-based paint on their walls and windowsills. These properties were already in a dilapidated state during the period of time when segregation-ordinances forcibly moved, and subsequently confined, Baltimore’s colored residents into the section of West Baltimore where these properties were, and still are, found. Later on, government officials neglected the responsibility of removing the lead-based paint that covered the walls and windowsills of those properties. This decision put many children’s health at risk of developing chronic conditions. Thus, because of Baltimore’s residential-segregation ordinances; and the local, state, and federal government’s negligence, Freddie Gray was lead-poisoned. What followed was a difficult life filled with academic difficulties and multiple arrests. Tragically, he died aged 25 from injuries he suffered while being transported in a police transport van. There are “…tens of millions of American homes [that] still contain lead paint today,” most of them located in neighborhoods that have historically been inhabited by “low income communities and people of color…” Because of inhumane negligence and discrimination, millions of children are in risk of being poisoned with lead, and in risk of suffering a short, difficult life like Freddie Gray’s.