Posted on 05/05/2015 9:35:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
Who killed Freddie Gray?
According to Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby, Freddie was murdered in a conspiracy of six cops who imprisoned him in a police van and there assaulted and killed him.
The killer was African-American officer Caesar Goodson, driver of the van, who, with a "depraved heart," murdered Freddie.
This is a summation of the charges against six Baltimore cops made Friday by Mosby, as she ranted into the TV cameras:
"To the people of Baltimore, and the demonstrators across America: I heard your call for 'No justice, no peace.' ... To the youth of this city: I will seek justice on your behalf. ...
"This is your moment. ... You're at the forefront of this cause and as young people, our time is now."
Mosby has cast herself as the avenging angel of those clamoring for retribution. But unless she has far more evidence than has been revealed, Mosby is talking a stronger hand than her cards are showing on the table.
For consider the captivity of Freddie Gray, step by step.
Making contact with a cop at 8:39 in the morning, Freddie fled, was caught with a knife, and put in a police van that made four stops.
On the first, the cops lifted Freddie off the floor and sat him down. On the second and third, they looked in on him again. On the fourth, they had detoured to pick up another prisoner.
Mosby is charging that not only did the cops willfully ignore Freddie's cries for help, but also the driver deliberately handled the van in so reckless a manner as to inflict a fatal injury, the severing of his spine.
But where is the evidence for any of this?
True, as Freddie had a legal knife, he had committed no crime and should not have been arrested. And the cops should have used the seat belt in the van to buckle in Freddie.
But those are police failings, not police felonies.
And while Freddie should have been taken sooner to a hospital, did the cops know how badly injured he was? How could they have known -- if they had done nothing to injure him?
And when and how was Freddie's spinal cord severed?
There appears thus far no evidence that five of the cops did anything to cause this. And no evidence has been brought forward that Goodson tried to injure Freddie by giving him "a rough ride."
The Washington Post reported that the second prisoner said that on the final leg of the trip to the police station, Freddie was thrashing around, possibly injuring himself.
Consider. In the Rodney King case, where there was film of his extended beating with billy clubs, a Simi Valley jury refused to convict any of the four cops. In Ferguson, Michael Brown sustained half a dozen gunshot wounds. Yet officer Darren Wilson was not indicted.
On Staten Island, 350-pound Eric Garner was seen on film being taken down by five cops in an arrest that led to his death, but none of the cops was indicted.
And there is far less visible evidence of any police crime in the case of Freddie Gray than in any of those three incidents.
The heart of the case against all six is that they denied Freddie the medical treatment needed to save his life. But where is the proof the officers knew how gravely injured he was, that he was in danger of death?
By going on national television and ordering the arrest of the six officers on charges that could mean the rest of their lives in prison, Mosby may have stopped the riots and calmed the crowds in Baltimore.
But she has kicked this can right up the road into 2016.
For what is coming is predictable.
Thus far, Freddie Gray has been portrayed by the media as the victim of brutal vigilante cops. But, soon, those six officers are going to be seen as flesh-and-blood cops who may have blundered in not seeing the extent of Freddie's injuries, but who are being railroaded by a malicious prosecutor pandering to an angry mob calling for vengeance.
While we have seen film of the arrest of Freddie Gray and his placement in that van, film that is inconclusive, what we are going to hear now is the other side of the story, the cops' side. From now on, they will be the underdogs, and Americans love underdogs.
A nation already riveted by the Freddie Gray episode, already divided, will become more so, as we move toward the indictments, the trials and the verdicts.
In our deepening political divide, the left invokes the narrative that black males are all too often terribly treated by brutal cops, while the right sees tough policing as having cut crime to more tolerable levels and cops as the thin blue line between them and anarchy.
The battle lines have been drawn upon which the "War On Cops" issue will be fought out in 2016.
As Pete Seeger sang, "Which side are you on?"
Going “All IN” with less than a pair is silly.
Progressive Agenda Gone Wild!
"...EYEP, SHE ARE GUILTY"
Even if the cops were guilty as sin, any prosecutor willing to jump the gun like this and put out charges w/o serious looking at the evidence should face disciplinary action and be sanctioned and removed from the case.
This case smells to high heaven and that 0bama’s DOJ feces are smeared all over this case.
The prosecutor is unambiguously condoning mob justice. Can lynching be far behind?
Let’s say they do kick the can down the road to 2016. Let’s say the six police officers are acquitted. Let’s say, they disadvantaged yutes of the city riot in not only Baltimore but in several Black Democrat cities. Let’s say, the Democrat nominee, Hillary Clinton blames the rioting on the Republicans and by extension, to their nominee, Jeb Bush. The question is, will Jeb make an attempt to rebut the accusation or will he just capitulate similar to what McCain did in 2008.
End results of generational bitter roots
Ephesians 4:31
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.
Amos 5:7
There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground.
Man, I thought I had seen/heard of jack boot licking, but this takes the cake.
Pat, you are a disgusting piece of trash and I’m sorry I ever thought highly enough of you to have bought and read your books in the past.
I’m not sure what Kaslin said that so incensed you, since the points he made are completely in line with what facts are known at this time.
The opinion that this prosecutor over reached in her charges is supported by other prosectuors, defense attorneys and judges who have commented. Expect that many, if not most of these charges will be dismissed at the probable cause hearing.
See when Pat says “The battle lines have been drawn upon which the “War On Cops” issue will be fought out in 2016” the “cops are scum” crowd here at FR really go ballistic.
Because their rhetoric puts them in the same realm as the brick throwing - CVS burning - toilet paper looting thugs in Baltimore. And they know it.
So - Pat is a bootlicker.
Both.
Malicious and stupid prosecutor. How did she get a law degree? Affirmative Action?
This racist idiot was so quick to charge 6 cops, she somehow got 2 of their names completely wrong.
Thanks for the insight. It’s a shame that some have such a negative opinion of people who give their lives so that we can live in peace and safety.
My best friends son who died in the line of duty, was one of the best guys you could ever hope to know. He volunteered to work with youth, was a part of the big brother program, special olympics, and was active in church. He worked with the local school superintendent to put together a program that gave young black males in our community mentors. This program prevented the gang recruitment that had ruined so many youths in towns around us.
“True, as Freddie had a legal knife, he had committed no crime and should not have been arrested.”
Turns out that the knife is illegal. Spring assisted.
Has anyone mentioned the possibility that Freddie had a seizure in the van?
Flailing around could have been the result of a seizure.
Is there some kind of test to show that he had a seizure?
Nothing that Kaslin said. I am referring to the article itself.
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