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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Why is it a war on police if they commit a crime and get charged for it?
Like in certain parts of Detroit, in a de facto sense?
Especially if they are still into criminal activities.
From what I’ve seen and heard about the evidence, I would hazard a guess that these officers will be acquitted - if the trial is held way out in the Maryland Panhandle past Cumberland, or somewhere out on the eastern shore. If the trial is held in Baltimore, however, they will be convicted, regardless of the evidence. I was just watching news coverage from downtown Baltimore as the news filtered out, and witnessed high-fiving and honking of horns. There’s a lynch-mob mentality loose in the Charm City, and the officers will find it impossible to get a fair trial there.
The first task of the defense attorneys, in other words, must be to get the trial moved.
Maybe he heard is mother calling. Maybe he’s been roughed up before. We can conjecture endlessly, that’s why the SCOTUS decided that merely running wasn’t sufficient probable cause.
Was he on foot or on a bike during the chase?
If the mayor isn’t charged with criminal negligence for doing nothing as she watched a CVS get looted of its prescription drugs by teens, I’m calling ‘SELECTIVE APPLICATION OF THE LAW BY BLACKS AGAINST WHITES’ on this one.
Everybody's misused him; ripped him off and abused him.
Another junkie playin'; pushin' dope for the man.
A terrible blow, but that's how it go...
Freddie's on the corner now... if you wanna be a junkie, wow...
Remember, Freddie's dead...
He's the one facing the most serious charges, as the driver of the van.
Maybe he ran because he knew the cops around there might arrest without probably cause. Oh hey! He was right!
If he had banged his own head against the van I would have expected them to IMMEDIATELY have said so...
“Why is this guy in the hospital’
“He bang his own head against the wall”
but when the answer is
“Geez, we dunno” it looks bad
I still expect them to use that defense. I suspect Gray was a royal dick they were tired of dealing with.
It’s my understanding Freddie ran for ONE MILE. During that time he could have discarded any heroin he might have been selling. He was a KNOWN heroin dealer and had been arrested many times for it. Odd how blacks uphold the mighty King ‘heroin dealer’ like he was MLK or something. Ugg.
It’s a ‘war on police’ because when 90% of the blacks murdered in Baltimore are murdered by other blacks, NO ONE CARES.
You should have been shot!
That page JUST got taken down while I was looking at it.
-——Prosecutors ruled that Freddie Gray’s death was a homicide.-—
Nope..... the medical examiner made the homicide ruling
Although the prosecutor did make a charge of second degree murder, she also made a host of lesser included charges including failure to properly restrain in the van.
He got what he deserved for resisting arrest and endangering officers lives
RE: Why do you care why he would run?
because an innocent man would not. I’ve had several encounters with cops before and NEVER ran.
I’m not sure, based upon the evidence that is currently known to the public, how these charges are arrived at.
It seems like they pretty much charged everyone with everything without really knowing specifically what happened or how.
Now perhaps they have access to information that we do not know at this time, but no way for me to know that.
She says she had probable cause to charge, but Angela Corey also said the same thing. I notice that these charges do not originate from a grand jury.
I question whether or not she can prove these charges beyond a reasonable doubt, but I guess we are going to find out.
If she can prove that these officers did this maliciously, then okay, but if she can’t, I hope people in that city can accept such an outcome.
I will follow this case closely.
RE: Maybe he ran because he knew the cops around there might arrest without probably cause.
If that happened to me and I were innocent, I’d let them arrest me and then sue the pants out of them later.
That’s the way it oughta work.
Then when the police turn around and kill one of the people they're paid to protect is it a "war on citizens"?
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