Posted on 05/01/2015 7:56:27 AM PDT by markomalley
State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby said Friday she has probable cause to file criminal charges in the much publicized death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray who died while in police custody.
Six officers, including a lieutenant and a sergeant, have been suspended after the incident. Gray suffered a spinal injury and died after riding in a police transport van that made several stops.
On Thursday, Baltimore’s police officials said they turned over their initial report to prosecutors — a day earlier than expected.
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If they didn’t have government employment or welfare I think most all would starve...or learn to go to work for a real living.
It’s a shame.
Maybe he’s Hispanic the driver. Paybacks are hell or he was driving like a madman.
A look sounds like the thought police are in that police force.
She’s been the DA for four months.
I don’t see “freepers” singing any tunes. I see discernment. I see a wait and see approach. You are stereotyping FR members. We are not lemmings.
Now that you mentioned it, after re reading it,in the fine print, I did see it. when your eyes are as bad as mine, I do good to see the large print.
the Oriole’s fan will finally have their wish, no outsiders will want to be in Baltimore... it’s about to become a free fire zone..
So she was indeed the State Attorney during Gray’s arrest and when the Mayor made her “Give the destroyer’s space” comment.
Have you seen any comments or quotes from Mosby regarding the Mayor publicly instructing law enforcement to give “Space” to those who wish to destroy?
If not, doesn’t that seem a bit odd?
My view on all of this is changing big time. My suggestion is many of these problems could be eliminated by reducing our police by 50% and encourage every law abiding American to be armed like the Swiss. Use the resulting savings to pay down our national debt.. Too many police leads to a police state.
It seems our public unions are bilking taxpayers so they can go off to retire in their 40s in the Villages of Florida while most taxpayers are working for another 25 years or more. Public servants shouldn’t have it better than we the public, but that’s how it now works in America.
There are too many questions about overreaction
Thanks for that...
Absolutely we need a justice system that is fair and treats everyone equally. Without that and we do not have a country worthy of respect. What concerns me most is how we are seeing average taxpayers being put at the bottom of the barrel while the interests of public servants are given preference.
As a forensic expert in homicides and trauma said.....if someone that is handcuffed and restrained and in police custody ends up with a broken neck, it can only be a result of abuse or a crime on the part of someone in officialdom? Someone has some serious explaining to do. If this type behavior is not checked now we will all become potential victims.
THere is no doubt he was a drug dealer. No doubt he should have been in jail. Not denying that in any way... and if it was up to me he would have been in jail.... and the people protesting and throwing bottles and rocks at the police, and burning and looting should be in jail as well... but that doesn't change the fact they put a guy in the back of the paddy waggon and he came out with a broken neck. And, they want us to believe they had nothing to do with it. That he may have done it to himself. No way....
The other question that I’ve not heard asked is this.... what in the world was the second guy picked up for. The one that is now recanting his statement. They pick him up, ride him around a little in the paddy wagon, take him to the station.... and let him go without charging him of any crime? I’m just saying, if the cops picked up anybody here and did that, we’d be suing. I would. We’d all be unhappy with the cops if they did that to one of us.
What a bunch of Racebaiting crap. Here are the facts HamiltonSharpton. 433 white guys were killed by cops last year. Yeah look it up That's almost twice as many as blacks that were killed (233) but your such a brainwashed liberal tard you probably never even cared about the media giving you a skewed biased picture.
If the powers that be can do this to someone you dislike today, they can do it to you tomorrow, that’s the pure and simple matter at the heart of this.
The powers that be are not the police. the powers that be are Obama, Sharpton , Holder, jackson, and the rest of the racial arsonists and the media.
the police haven't got a shit's worth of power compared to them. they can railroad and destroy anyone they want anytime they want. And they have done so many times even when the person they railroaded has been proven innocent.
So screw them and screw you. get a brain you liberal piece of trash.
Looks to me like they were looking to teach the scumbag a lesson, and ended up killing him in the process. I disagree with second degree murder, but manslaughter or negligent homicide are in the realm of possibility. It would appear that she has more than enough to indict.
If we want police held to the same stamdard as everyone else, then there are going to be cases where police are indicted for doing bad things to bad actors.
From 2harddrive:
No, the Baltimore city code bans that knife. It was not a switchblade, but it was spring-assisted, which city code bans.
Marktwain replies:
Baltimore City Code is vague on the subject:
Maryland does not have knife law preemption, so municipalities such as Baltimore are allowed to fabricate laws more restrictive than the state itself. Baltimore’s city code prohibits the sale, carry or possession of “any knife with an automatic spring or other device for opening and/or closing the blade, commonly known as a switch-blade knife.” While it might be possible in theory to interpret that unusual definition of “switch-blade” to include assisted-opening knives, such an interpretation would conflict with virtually all other switchblade definitions throughout the country.
http://www.kniferights.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=335&Itemid=1
Change of venue to a rural county. They do exist in Maryland. The eastern shore even has conservatives.
“I’m looking for the late 60s to be making a quick comeback”
I’m thinking more surveilance and microphones inside the offices of our elected officials than on the citizens would make more sense. Also when public officials, are sued by their victims for abuse or other bad stuff the settlements need to come out of their pension fund instead of the wallets of taxpayers.
Jade Helm anyone?
A change of venue is a certainty assuming this goes to trial. And 3 of the cops charged are black.
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