[Conscience of a Conservative]

The clear signal here is: Rioting and looting works if you are going to unlawfully arrest someone, make sure they don't end up dead in the back of the police van.

Fixed that for ya.

[FreeReign]

The clear signal here is: if you are going to unlawfully arrest someone, make sure they don't end up dead in the back of the police van.

I see you convicted the cops already.

And you have a conscience?

[Cementjungle]

Did the liberals who run the city and police department know about the lack of seat belts in vans before now?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

We have to separate the police conduct from the rioting, and treat them as two distinct issues.

[ilgipper]

unlawfully arrest someone?

[Drew68]

if you are going to unlawfully arrest someone, make sure they don't end up dead in the back of the police van.

Eventually we're going to wind up with Latin American style policing. When Brazilian or Columbian cops throw petty criminals in the back of vans, they don't show up at hospitals critically injured. They vanish off the face of the earth.

[2harddrive]

“The clear signal here is: Rioting and looting works if you are going to unlawfully arrest someone, make sure they don’t end up dead in the back of the police van.”

The convict was not unlawfully arrested. He was carrying a knife BANNED BY BALTIMORE CITY CODE. Maryland does NOT have a state-level knife law preemption law.