Posted on 05/01/2015 7:49:25 AM PDT by kristinn
Edited on 05/01/2015 8:18:19 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby ruled Freddie Gray's death to be a homicide.
Mosby reading a timeline of the arrest and transport of Gray.
Says the knife he had on him when arrested was legal.
Says police had no lawful reason to arrest Gray.
This is what passes for a DA these days?
Officers to be charged in death of Freddie Gray. Mosby announcing multiple charges against the officers involved.
This should be good to keep Baltimore burning for the whole weekend and part of next week.
This is crazy!
She is Baltimore States Atty and is married to a Baltimore Councilman. She should have recused herself in the baginning.
Looks like the police officers have been declared guilty and sentenced already.
Yeah, the Orioles might as well call it a season.
Prosecutor statement in progress.
No commentary as yet.
M.E. Report classified at “HOMICIDE”
PERSONNEL CHARGED WITH CRIMES:
GOODSEN: CHARGED WITH MURDER
PORTER: INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
RICE: INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
NERO: ASSAULT 2ND DEGREE
MILLER: INTENTIONAL ASSAULT 2ND DEGREE
WHITE: MANSLAUGHTER, AND INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
But, prosecutor is describing how the “victim” was illegally arrested and not secured per Department Regs.
Police Lieutenant participated in the arrest.
Baltimore Cop Who Chased Freddie Gray Had Pattern of Violence
April 26, 2015 10:26 am·
Court filings have recently revealed that Baltimore Police Lieutenant Brian Rice had a pattern of violence, even before chasing down Freddie Gray in the moments that led up to his assault and arrest.
Rice had been ordered to stay away from man who court documents say had legitimate “fear of imminent harm or death.”
The Lieutenant has now been suspended in the police assault that led to the severed spine and ultimately death of Gray. That death, and the preceding assault that took place in the police van, has now sparked federal inquiry.
Rice is currently one of the six officers who is suspended with pay, pending a criminal inquiry, as to their roll in the death of Freddie Gray. But Rice has been confirmed as the officer who first chased Gray before he was thrown into a police van and had his neck “80% severed.”
But Rice had previously been accused of threatening to murder an innocent man as part of what court documents call a “pattern of intimidation and violence.” They took this matter so seriously that they issued a temporary restraining order against the lieutenant.
Rice found himself under court order to stay away from the man he had been threatening.
The documents reveal that these threats came in the form of physical confrontations and even one “armed standoff” that resulted in a 911 call, as well as officers from two departments defusing the situation for an hour and a half… Somehow, Rice remained free, in spite of these incidences.
“I am seeking protection immediately,” the Carroll County, Maryland, court documents from January 2013 read. The Guardian UK has obtained these documents, which have not yet been released. The man’s name has thus far remained protected, as he says he fears his life would be in serious jeopardy if the Baltimore police decided to retaliate on behalf of Rice.
The man went on to say in his filings that Rice’s behavior caused him “to have constant fear for my personal safety” as well as a “fear of imminent harm or death from Brian Rice”.
A separate time, also filed separately with the court, Rice even had his firearms confiscated because the threat to the man was considered so seriously. But a judge lifted this protective order within only a week, saying that he saw no basis in the law for it to continue.
Back in 2013, the man says that Rice even came to his house at 2am, very drunk and saying that he “planned to kill” him.
“I witnessed Brian Rice remove a black semi-automatic handgun from the trunk of his vehicle,” he wrote in the filings.
The man called 911, prompting numerous officers to respond.
“They remained on scene for approximately one and a half hours,” he continued. “Brian Rice was allowed to leave on foot.”
But the sheriff’s department spokesman claims that there is no record of that incident. “We were probably there as backup,” he claimed.
After and before that, he didn’t even bother calling 911. “What good will it do?” his wife said. “He abuses his power as a police supervisor and no one believes us.”
In the months that followed, Rice sent “numerous harassing and sexually explicit text messages” on his Baltimore police department-issued BlackBerry.
Another time, Rice came to the man’s house, and was “racing the engine” while flashing the headlights and moving closer and closer to the man.
“This caused me to become distraught and fear my life was about to end,” he said, adding that he was “terrified and had immense fear” of the lieutenant.
Meanwhile, police had no comment on this history of violence, instead choosing to focus on how they are “very concerned about the rhetoric of the protests” that have followed the death of Gray last week.
“The images seen on television look and sound much like a lynch mob,” Baltimore’s fraternal order of police said, invoking the image of police as a persecuted minority.
http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/04/pattern-of-lieutenant-brian-rice-baltimore-freddie-gray/
This could’ve been (and probably was) written by Eric Holder himself.
She sounds like an angry Black woman!
Sheesh does she have to raise her voice. She is sounding like Garrett Morris on SNL for the hard of hearing.
She sure does.
Such a sad story,, another Baltimore inner city yute Success Story, he just couldnt get a decent break..
Hey , who doesn’t have a rap sheet as long as the DemocRatic Code of Conduct&Rules of Corruption when your city and state are run by liebrals. Ya gotta make ends meet til the next welfare chex.
Socialism kills communities.. The police are the convenient target.. caught in a political Catch-22.
She’s not just a DA - she is the State Attorney.
Kangaroo Court on display. Baltimore cops should go on strike.
Statement written by Obama’s New AG ?
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