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Freddie Gray's death ruled a homicide, police officers charged
Business Insider ^ | 05/01/2015

Posted on 05/01/2015 8:17:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Prosecutors ruled that Freddie Gray's death was a homicide. Friday morning, State attorney Marilyn Mosby announced that all six officers involved in the incident have been charged and warrants are out for their arrests.

"Six officers are each facing multiple charges, including manslaughter, assault, misconduct in office and false imprisonment: Lt. Brian Rice, Sgt. Alicia White, Officer William Porter, Officer Garrett Miller, Officer Edward Nero and Officer Caesar Goodson," The Baltimore Sun reports. "Goodson, who drove the van, has been charged with second-degree murder."

Mosby described how police arrested Gray on no grounds, violated police procedures by cuffing his hands and legs the van without putting him in a seat belt, and repeatedly failed to provide him with medical attention.

On April 12, Gray was arrested for carrying a knife and his spine was somehow partially severed while in police custody.

Mosby said that the knife was legal and that the officers “failed to establish probable cause for an arrest.”

Gray underwent major surgery, lapsed into a coma, and died on April 19.

“Mr. Gray was no longer breathing at all" when he was removed from the wagon.

His death sparked protests across Baltimore that escalated into riots.

"We know he was not buckled in the transportation wagon as he should have been. No excuses from me. Period," City Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said. "We know our police employees failed to get him medical attention in a timely manner multiple times."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: badcopnodonut; baltimore; blackkk; elijahcummings; freddiegray; homicide; justiceforfreddie; maryland; thugcops
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1 posted on 05/01/2015 8:17:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Here’s the bizzare thing (for me ) about this report:

The police initially stopped Gray because he “fled unprovoked upon noticing police presence,” according to charging documents written by officer Garrett Miller and cited by The Baltimore Sun.

Why would Freddie run for no reason?


2 posted on 05/01/2015 8:18:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Now it’s the LEOs’ turn to become angry and feel betrayed. This will be interesting.


3 posted on 05/01/2015 8:20:52 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: SeekAndFind

If that’s the case, shut down those cops! PERIOD

THAT is not law enforcement by anybody’s standards!


4 posted on 05/01/2015 8:22:14 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Lee'sGhost

The War on Police contiues.....


5 posted on 05/01/2015 8:22:27 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I gotta say, when I was teen, some of my friends would run when the cops showed up just to F with them. When they got caught, the cops would ask them why they ran. “Because I was tired of walking.”

So, it isn’t ENTIRELY out of reason that someone would run for no good reason. My gut says Gray had a reason, but again, it could happen.


6 posted on 05/01/2015 8:23:49 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: Lee'sGhost

LEOs, Hands up , we quit, you police your own neiborhoods.


7 posted on 05/01/2015 8:23:52 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe like ProjectR : build it already Congre)
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To: Lee'sGhost

[ Now it’s the LEOs’ turn to become angry and feel betrayed. This will be interesting. ]

Maybe they will strike like they did in New York?


8 posted on 05/01/2015 8:24:02 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: SeekAndFind

No surprise at all...


9 posted on 05/01/2015 8:24:43 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: SeekAndFind

I would LOVE for every LEO in Baltimore, Philly, DC and Ferguson to walk off the job and let the animals run wild.


10 posted on 05/01/2015 8:26:03 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: SeekAndFind

We all know what happens when people leap to conclusions before the facts are all known. There’s nothing any of us can do about this, so sit back and let the truth become known.

I have no idea whether this is justified or not and neither does anyone else here.


11 posted on 05/01/2015 8:26:11 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Why would Freddie run for no reason?”

He had a long rap sheet & was known to police. People with criminal pasts are wary of the police


13 posted on 05/01/2015 8:27:14 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: SeekAndFind

Obviously the “Ferguson Commission” thinking is to arrest all and have a jury trial. This is the same thinking that lead to the stand down order. At the end of the day, riots still happened and the trail will most likely result is lesser charges and acquittals. That will mean more riots. It is not the approach, it is the response.


14 posted on 05/01/2015 8:27:23 AM PDT by 11th Commandment ("THOSE WHO TIRE LOSE")
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To: SeekAndFind
I have questions about this whole business.

1. Did they test Freddie's blood for presence of Flakka or Bath Salts?

2. Did Vallerie Jarrett contact the mayor and recommend that the cops ‘stand down’?

3. Did she also recommend to that mayor that Al Sharpton be called in?

15 posted on 05/01/2015 8:27:40 AM PDT by chopperman
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To: bigbob

One thing we know, EVERYONE involved from top-to-bottom is a Democrat, no Republicans in Baltimore.


16 posted on 05/01/2015 8:27:54 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

Most of the cops involved are white. They’ll never get a fair trial in Baltimore. How anyone would want to go into law enforcement is a cesspool like Baltimore run by a bunch of thugs is beyond the pale.


17 posted on 05/01/2015 8:28:16 AM PDT by kenmcg
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To: nuconvert

RE: He had a long rap sheet & was known to police. People with criminal pasts are wary of the police

Some street wise person that I spoke to just after I typed that question told me that he was certain Freddie Gray had drugs on him to sell. He ran so that he would have time to dispose it before the cops catch him.


18 posted on 05/01/2015 8:28:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: freeangel
I would LOVE for every LEO in Baltimore, Philly, DC and Ferguson to walk off the job and let the animals run wild.

And I would LOVE for every good LEO out there (and that's most of them) to speak out against the actions of the few bad LEOs out there.

Why should they walk off the job?

19 posted on 05/01/2015 8:28:38 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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20 posted on 05/01/2015 8:30:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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