Baltimore Officials Promise Investigation Into Death of Man After His Arrest

The New York Times ^ | 20 April 2015 | Sheryl Gay Stolberg

[demshateGod]

Another way to look at this: if black men would stop committing so many crimes, they'd have less of a chance being killed by police. I'm not defending police murder. Just stating a fact.

[from occupied ga]

Another way to look at this: if black men would stop committing so many crimes, they'd have less of a chance being killed by police

What an ass.

[from occupied ga]

I heard a few more details on this. He apparently sustained his injuries in the back of a police van . One of the things police do (if someone pisses them off or just for fun) is cuff a prisoner so that he can’t use his hands to protect himself and the drive around accelerating hard, braking hard whipping around corners etc to slam the prisoner around the inside of the police van. It administers a severe beating without the cops even touching their victim.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Where are the highest crime areas in almost any city? A third of all black men will end up in prison at some point in their lives. That is a fact, not a racist statement.

[Theoria]

‘On Monday, police officers filed court documents saying that Mr. Gray had been arrested “without force or incident.”’

[lee martell]

This may be the worst cop brutality story I’ve heard of in the country within the last 25 years. It reads as though there was Internal or Partial Decapitation, albeit involuntary or inadvertant. This is pretty bad.

[demshateGod]

How about a paraphrase a respected author? When you know how to act, good things happen to you: but when you don’t act right, you have a difficult life. Would you curse that author?

Pro 13:15 Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.

[DoodleDawg]

"On Monday, police officers filed court documents saying that Mr. Gray had been arrested “without force or incident.”’

It'll be interesting how they explain the injury then.

[demshateGod]

Also, words mean things. When I wrote, “I’m not defending police murder,” I meant that I’m not defending murder by police. But, would you argue that breaking crimes, does not lead to more negative interactions with police? It seems pretty simple. The article implies that black men are the targets of this. Is that what you’re arguing?

Goodness. I give up.

[Pirate Ragnar]

...and you know this how?

[trisham]

I just saw this story on Fox News. Horrible.

[grania]

Almost all of these cases, except the guy selling single cigarettes in NYC, the "victim of police brutality" was running from the police when told to stop. How are any of us going to be safe if a person on the run can't be stopped by the police?

The solution would be more community policing, so people were familiar with a police presence, lawful public behavior, and respecting authority.

[momtothree]

“... It’ll be interesting how they explain the injury then..”

He fell down the steps... 42 times.

[demshateGod]

I think the best solution is two parents living in the home. If society, the left, the race hucksters really wanted to save black lives, they’d work toward making sure black kids had fathers.

[momtothree]

Bal’more ping, hon.

[petercooper]

Sucks to be cuffed in the back of a police van then.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

[cyclotic]

The worst part was his “crime”. He was arrested on a “weapons charge” for having a pocketknife clipped to his pocket

When did that become a criminal offense. I live in Maryland and have read the knife laws, archaic as they may be, that’s not illegal

[DoodleDawg]

I think the best solution is two parents living in the home

That's true regardless of race.