Posted on 05/01/2015 7:37:37 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
Hannity talking with anonymous cop making breaking news. Cop says Freddy tested positive for drugs, including heroin, thus supporting story by cops and the other criminal in the van that Freddy was trying to cause harm to himself. The drugs would certainly make it easier for him to do it.
Cop also says they were explicitly told not to confront looters and robbers "direct from commander."
If you are claiming that he was let go so he could give false testimony, it would not square with his later recanting. He also would tell the world that the cops offered him an "out" if he committed perjury.
He lucked out.
Right place right time via Limbaugh.
He gave Romney AND McCain support.
An RNC MOUTHPIECE.
He is USELESS in the struggle against the CPUSA.
I’ve served on a few, and still miraculously take it seriously.
Think they said other guy broke peace bond so they picked him up.
“What’s missing is the “hog tied.” Being laid flat on the floor after playing possum with the cops doesn’t mean he can’t get up and then knock himself silly, as the other guy in the van claimed he was doing.”
He was bound by his hands and feet, maybe that doesn’t meed the definition of “hog tied”, I don’t know. But hands and feet bound and laying on the floor of that van, you have no way to protect yourself.
And the other prisoner did not claim that. That was debunked.
HANNITY is obsessed. At this point, all evidence is lousy for the cops, corroborates nothing the cops have said, so far. The evidence is that Gray went into the van alive and came out in critical condition, with too many van stops and no witnesses.
But, murder charges? No. Probably will get reduced to manslaughter or even negligence. Law suits against the city police for negligence is a certainty.
Let’s hope there is a change of trial venue out of there.
Hannity seemed to know him as a veteran police officer. I don’t think Hannity found him out on the street.
According to the prosecutor, that is no reason to arrest him.
We just don't have enough information.
The marijuana can stay in your system for 1-2 months IF you are a heavy user. The opiates not so much.
I think it's a stretch to claim that he was unable to get up from his position. Do you have a link showing that he was "debunked"? This was reported by WAPO as coming out of a report.
Both marijuana and heroin, though generally depressants, can cause any manner of bizarre behavior as well.
Yep, I would have done the same thing. You stab someone in the chest with an 8 inch blade, you meant to kill him or otherwise to great bodily harm. The intent is there.
He might have wished afterwards that he didn’t mean for it to end that way, but his actions speak for themselves.
If he swallowed the heroin and it was his first use then that explains how he could injure himself so horribly... he could feel no pain.
thats along the lines of what I was “thinking”
we dont know how much heroin was in his system, nor are we likely going to be told.
6 hours for heroin.
Wow... did not know heroin was completely gone from your system that fast...
Wow... did not know heroin was completely gone from your system that fast...
The Prosecutor’s announcement in Baltimore about bringing charges against six officers there was nothing more than a political campaign speech, it certainly was not a prosecutorial statement.
This prosecutor should not even be prosecuting the case. She should have recused herself because she is a close personal friend to the young man who died family’s attorney. That attorney has been her mentor and was a large campaign contributor to her political campaign to become prosecutor. With a conflict of interest like that, there is no way she should be prosecuting the case.
As to her prosecution, she has charged those officers with 2nd degree, willful murder. It sounds like she is going for the highest charge she can possibly think of without any credence given to the actual facts on the ground. Again, it sounds like she is doing so to make a political statement and try and use that to calm things in Baltimore. But it will not work. It will only end up making things worse.
Given what happened, I do not believe there is any hope or chance of sustaining, or winning any kind of verdict on such a charge. If the arrest indeed was not legal (and that is certainly not established), charge them with illegal arrest and detention. If they did not seat belt the young man in the paddy wagon, charge them with violating their own safety protocol. But to take those two things and turn it into a willful murder of this young man is simply amazing in its over reach.
Finally, any good attorney and prosecutor would not rile up the public and seek to bias them as this prosecutor has done. That too ends up backfiring when the house of cards ultimately comes down.
I believe, like with the Trayvon Martin case in Florida, and the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, MO, huge, and unprovable over-reaches like this end up in having the people they are trying to trump up the charges on being exonerated and found innocent of those charges.. As in those cases, this attempt will end up not serving justice or the interests of Baltimore. Sadly, predictably, it will only make matters worse when the charges cannot be supported and the individuals are found innocent.
It is sad to see the U.S. justice system being politically corrupted right before our eyes like this.
I’ll ask you the same questions I asked him-
Wouldn’t driving around at high speeds and slamming on the brakes cause him to careen to the front of the van as opposed to careening to the back of the van where the coroner said his head contacted a bolt which left a mark?
Do you think the van was moving in reverse at high speeds and then slamming on the brakes?
Do you think that if a driver of a police van was operating in such a reckless way as to kill a man by breaking his bones that someone would have seen this at 8:45 am in the morning in the middle of a city?
Do you think that GPS data from that van might show erratic driving if in fact erratic driving occurred?
That’s for in the blood. Can be detected 2-4 days in the urine.
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