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I don’t understand the straw dog and the extreme actions the cops are taking. No one asked for “no cops”.
The anger is all about unarmed blacks being killed by cops. Freddie Gray died in police custody. There were policies in place that cops were suppose to follow when they put him in the paddy wagon. They did not follow those policies. They were put into place because the City had to pay a big lawsuit about someone getting hurt in a paddy wagon. Yes he ran. Yes he had drugs. Yes he has been a thug and criminal for a good while. No, that does not give the cops the right not to follow policy. If he is in custody it is their responsibility to see that he is safe. The cops do not get to decide that it is ok for him to die.
Now, because a grand jury indicted six cops who are accused of not following policy, cops are not doing their jobs. We will show the city, they say. If the city does not go along with what the cops want,we will not do our jobs until we are allowed to do what ever we want to do to whoever we want to do it to.
Cops should be told in person that they had better do their jobs are lose them.
Cops are the servants of citizens, cops are not in charge.

So you believe the cops caused his death?

You believe everything you read in the newspapers and everything the state attorney said?

You think cops should jump in and try to arrest someone when 30 or 40 thugs surround him?

You’re giving southerners a bad name.

Grab a sidearm and badge and get right at it Skippy.

Let us know how it works out for you. ;)

I wouldn’t work for the ignorant Racist Mayor. I will not be put in a position that that AA loud mouthed Racist Pig in the State Attorney Office either.

They both have loud mouths. Let’s see if they can withstand the harvest of the seeds they sowed

If you know that you may be criminally prosecuted by a racist because you and she don’t share the same definition of a law, you might be more reluctant to do your job. This prosecutor did not acknowledge Baltimore City code and falsely accused these officers of making a false arrest. She is now claiming an unlawful detention which is also a bogus charge. The current administration and its “Justice Dept.” are doing their utmost to demoralize and gut police depts. across this country. These neighborhoods wanted the police gone and now they have their wish.

It’s a real simple matter: any government employee and/or bureaucrat pretty much gets paid whether they work or not, and it’s pretty easy to go through the motions enough to not get fired. Only the truly motivated actually work. They work because they believe in what they do, that they make a difference, and/or for self respect. But if your bosses throw up enough obstacles, then even good, self-motivated employees give up and say, “Fuck it, I get paid the same whether I work or not”.

It’s exactly the same for cops, except their jobs are several times more difficult than the average bureaucrat or government employee, especially in inner city ghettos, and believe me, if a cop is told to stand down and “give space to destroy” and then expects to be arrested for “false imprisonment” or “illegal arrest” for making a mistake, then hey, the solution is real simple, don’t arrest anyone. Just answer your radio calls and do the minimum expected. After all, no one can really prove you’re not being “proactive”.

I’m with the Baltimore cops 100% on this one. And I hope they keep doing what they are doing now until they get a new police commissioner, a new mayor, and a new state’s attorney, ALL of whom back the cops 100%. Until then, clock in, respond to radio calls, clock out, and collect your paycheck. Baltimore is not imploding because the police abandoned the people, Baltimore is imploding because the people abandoned the cops.

There was no grand jury. There was only Mosby running her own investigation without using her normal investigation team. And then she outrageously overcharged in order to appease the mob.

If the cops broke policy, it should be punishable. However from what I have read, the policy was 3 days old and may not have been fully disseminated yet.

The politicians ordered the police to stand down and allow the city to burn. I fully expect that the mayor still supports the non proactive policing policy now being followed. She doesn’t want the police to act, but the community as a whole suffers when they withdraw from the field. So the police are damned either way.