Six Baltimore police officers face murder, other charges in death of black man

Reuters ^ | May 1, 2015 | Scott Malone and Ian Simpson

[KeyLargo]

Six Baltimore police officers face murder, other charges in death of black man BALTIMORE | By Scott Malone and Ian Simpson

[Mears]

” If any case screams for an independent prosecutor and a change of venue, this is it.”

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I agree 100%.

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[ansel12]

You really are being silly, at one time we were all your so called legless, arm less, school kids, and we know the difference between our years and years, and years, of riding on the school bus, and being handcuffed with our hands behind us in an empty police van.

Are you on some crusade to put seat belts in school buses, is that what all this ranting is about?

[Forgotten Amendments]

Amazing that they managed to get Darren Wilson's photo on the internet soon after the incident with Brown, but photos of the cops in the Freddie Gray case are non-existent.

That's probably because Baltimore has one of those "Law Enforcement Bill of Rights" which makes it virtually impossible to punish bad cops. Heck, as of yesterday, the driver hadn't even been questioned! But, he had unlimited time to get together with his buddies to get their stories straight.

Oh, and they'll keep getting paid until their convictions (which I doubt will ever happen).

[FreeReign]

You really are being silly, at one time we were all your so called legless, arm less, school kids, and we know the difference between our years and years, and years, of riding on the school bus, and being handcuffed with our hands behind us in an empty police van.

Silly my foot.

About 8,000 kids are injured in bus crashes every year and a number of kids die every year(I can look up the number if you would like) in school bus accidents.

Yet you think that the concern for the safety of kids on government hired school buses is "silly", while at the same time you are so deeply concerned for the safety of cuffed perps in police vans.

Again, that shows your bias.

Are you on some crusade to put seat belts in school buses, is that what all this ranting is about?

My point is, in cases where police aren't giving rough rides, where they don't belt in their cuffed passenger and where an accident occurs, they should no more be charged with manslaughter than any non faulting school bus driver/owner, school administrator or parent of a kid in a school bus accident.

Now go back and read post #14 which was the post I was first responding to.

[Lumper20]

I do not think we can judge the cops as we do not know all the facts. So far we have seen an idiot for a mayor of a city with almost 10% addicts. I damn sure will not go there. It is supposedly the heroin capital of the USA, but; they may be BS too?

[BenLurkin]

Is the prosecutor bring civil rights violation charges against these officers?

[Lumper20]

Good point. They mayor seems to be encouraging more crime. Crime is crime regardless of who does it.

[Lumper20]

I guess times have changed too much for me. I have had two tickets in my 68 years and was arrested as a 16 year old in VA for drinking a beer.

[norton]

Judging by her announcement Ms. Mosby isn't a state prosecutor; she's a cheerleader for the rioters.

We're going to have a "fair trial before the hanging".

[lavaroise]

Yes, after they stopped him, but the arrest itself and continued custodial mistreatment was primarily motivated over the knife finding.

[lavaroise]

It is the case of A Few Good Men, but contrary to the Hollywood story, it is not bad marine officers, but liberal District Attorneys pushing cops under orders to attack “Uncle Tom” blacks who dare entreprize or carry a weapon, because these do not vote Democrat.

It is a liberal white trash racist Harvard lawyer man behind the Curtain Operation.

Yes, the arrest was racist, but not from the right wing, it was left racism that did this, and yet the protestors are manipulated to protest right wingers!

It is a sham.

Obama, the ATF, the DEA, all these outfits pressuring cops to crush a kid for bringing an Oreo cookie at lunch to please michelle are the culprit.

And surprize surprise, the cop snitch Al Sharpton is asking for more Federalizing the police!

[IrishBrigade]

They blamed Rudy for Amadou Diallo, why should this mayor skate?

quite obviously, because she is a black female...untouchable...

[WilliamofCarmichael]

That'd probably be left to the feds at the Obama-Holder Dept. of Just Us.. now maybe the Lynch Mob.

[IWONDR]

“Are you on some crusade to put seat belts in school buses, is that what all this ranting is about”

not such a bad idea is it?

[jetson]

Am I mistaken or was Freddie Gray first seen riding a bicycle by the cops. Would be interesting to find out what kind of acrobatics he did on his bike. Like landing on his head and fracturing a vertebrae.

[KeyLargo]

Who is Marilyn Mosby, the Baltimore state prosecutor with the rallying cry

'Our Time Is Now'?

"Mosby is known for her slogan "our time is now," a statement that she has used since her swearing in. During her speech, WBAL reported that she said in reference to the lack of trust between law enforcement and the community, "Our time to repair that trust, to come together collectively as a community, to start to break down the barriers to progress in our communities, is now."

Her statement has since been paraphrased by her and others, and was recently adopted by protestors since Gray's death. She now promotes on her official Twitter page #OurTimeIsNow."

[discostu]

Even in the old days if you kept the crimes small enough you’d get fines and not much else. The jails just don’t have room for every underage drinker or guy caught with a small amount of dope or paraphernalia (my NIL’s favorite bust). And some folks just get lucky. My NIL got busted for check forgery twice, once in New Mexico where they didn’t realize what a loser he is and they gave him probation and a lazy PO so he never followed any of the conditions. The second time here in AZ where most of his record is, but the cops screwed up the paperwork and they wound up dropping the charges.

[BJ1]

>>> Freddie Gray was busted 28 times, many of those were serious charges. He was STILL walking the streets.

Should we enact a law forbidding jail time for someone until they reach 100 felonies?<<<

Did I say that just because I said the incarceration rate was too high? I did say something is broken if we need to lock so many men up.

[Cementjungle]

I did say something is broken if we need to lock so many men up.

What's broken is the fact that we let criminals walk too many times, thus encouraging them to continue committing crime after crime. I'm all for giving people second chances, and do know that anyone can make a mistake... but 28 arrests and still walking free.... that's insane.

[BJ1]

You miss my point. There are riots surrounding this guy’s story. This guy is a bad guy. So was Rodney King yet L.A. went into riots over him.

Yes I lament over the large number of men wasting their lives in jail. There are only a few countries with a higher incarceration rate than our country. I don’t think, locking them up is the correct response. Crime was not out of control like this 50 years ago. I think the correct response is to structure society so we don’t have so many lawless youths roaming the streets. Basically we need a father back in the house and with proper authority to be in charge of raising law abiding citizens. Single women are by and large the parents of those in jail. Why treat the symptom (with more jails) and not the root problem (destruction of the family)?