Because DAs and cops lie. That's why the founders set up a country where stupid little people like me could ask questions about real people and very important matters, and condescending mockery like yours, about obvious flaws in charging documents that declare themselves to be easily accessible real information.
FYI, those charging documents you find so irresistibly satisfying ARE Pravda. But don't let it bother you - cops who break people's necks taking them down, or driving them around, or whatever, are heroes. The only people with a problem about such things are punks anyway. When a cop speaks, that is the truth. Questions prove the questioner needs an attitude adjustment.
Besides, everyone knows that it's more likely that the perp deliberately broke his own neck in the van, rather than having it broken in the take-down. And that his inability to walk in the video with the cops holding his head up after it flopped to the side was just him passively resisting arrest.
Jeez, what do you think - they broke his neck taking him down, tackling him, stomping on his neck, and then tried to HIDE it?! What part of that's completely impossible don't you get? Perps deliberately break their necks in police vans every day - check the FBI stats. So just shut your pie-hole, with that anti-American crap, you friggin communist.
“...and condescending mockery like yours...”
First of all, please specify where I have been condescending or mocking - be specific. Then please re-evaluate your boot-licker, Soviet, and Pravda comments before you shatter the glass house.
“Because DAs and cops lie.”
I really don’t know what to say. That statement indicates to me that you have only a casual knowledge of the case. Do you really think that the DA is some sort of pro-cop shill, who reluctantly filed charges under pressure? Just to allay you of that opinion, here’s a quote from the press conference, when she announced the charges: “To the people of Baltimore and demonstrators across America, I heard your calls for, “No Justice, No peace. Your peace is sincerely needed as I work to deliver justice on behalf of this young man.” Trust me, she is wholeheartedly in favor of this prosecution, and most certainly didn’t lie to protect these officers.
“Jeez, what do you think - they broke his neck taking him down, tackling him, stomping on his neck, and then tried to HIDE it?! What part of that’s completely impossible don’t you get?”
All I can say is that you are completely ignorant of this case, from top to bottom. The autopsy states that a single high energy blow to the HEAD caused the neck injury (is the medical examiner is a liar too). In case you didn’t catch what that means, ‘stomping’ on his neck was not what broke it, rather it was a high energy impact (again to the HEAD and not the NECK) most often found in CAR ACCIDENTS. Gee, I wonder if maybe that’s why this prosecutor charged the DRIVER with manslaughter.
“...cops who break people’s necks taking them down, or driving them around, or whatever, are heroes.”
Wait a minute - is that condescending mockery? Lets establish some things (again).
1. My post dealt with my bewilderment as to why the arresting officers were charged with assault.
2. The arresting officers have absolutely nothing to do with the broken neck
So lets get back ON TOPIC: Specifically what crime did the arresting officers commit?
I think I deserve an answer - you’ve now called me a bootlicker and communist, associated me with the Soviets, equated me with Pravda, and called me condescending...because you disagree with me. So tell me why I’m wrong - what crime did Officer Nero commit?
p.s. - Notice that I haven’t called you any names. Weird huh? And I didn’t admonish you to ‘shut your pie-hole’. Gee I wonder whose losing the argument. I have a suggestion, my FRiend:
1. Learn about the case - get your facts straight
2. Get that chip off your shoulder about police. I don’t know what they did to you, but its never proper to let your emotions about a few paint a broad brush over an entire group.
3. Be more civil on this board. Seriously - re-read your posts and ponder whether or not they belong here or on DU.