Well, gee, let's take this quote:
"I told homicide that. I don't work for the police," he said in the WBAL interview. "I did not tell the police nothing."
One question that you might ask is "Do you believe his first sentence or his third sentence?"
Having watched his interview on MSNBC, it strikes me that Mr. Allen is a very animated and engaging speaker. He speaks very quickly and with great enthusiasm.
Logical consistency in what he says from moment to moment is not his strong suit.
He cannot have "told homicide that" and also "not tell the police nothing". Those two statements directly contradict each other and were made within moments of each other.
You tell me - did he talk to the police or not? Pretty simple question, and he gives two different answers to that question in the same breath.
Now, sure, some people aren't careful speakers. He may simply mean that he spoke to the homicide detectives investigating what happened to Mr. Gray, but that he didn't speak to the police who were involved directly in the incident.
He's a very poetic speaker, but that kind of thing runs into problems when it is dissected for the purpose of establishing simple facts like "did he talk to the police?" when his style of speaking needs interpretation to figure out wtf he is trying to say.
But, really, which sentence out of the three quoted here do you believe? The first one or the third one?
It's entirely possible he said all kinds of things that were cherry picked for the report, given that it is possible with the short quote here to come up with two contradictory answers to a pretty simple question.
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