Marilyn J. Mosby, the prosecutor overseeing the investigation into Freddie Gray's death, at a news conference in January. Credit Matt Roth for The New York Times
Ms Mosby's husband, Nick, is on city council.
Posted on 05/01/2015 8:23:48 AM PDT by rktman
All six Baltimore Police officers have been charged in Freddie Gray's police-custody death.
State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby said Gray's death in police custody was a homicide during a long-awaited news conference Friday morning.
Gray's arrest was illegal, said Mosby. The charges include manslaughter, assault and misconduct. One officer, Caesar Goodson, who was the driver of the van carrying Gray, will face a second-degree murder charge.
(Excerpt) Read more at 7online.com ...
Seems the DA punted this one to a jury for political reasons & to avoid another riot.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they were all, or nearly all of the hmmm, ‘African-American’ persuasion
Why the riots? Did the Blacks doubted for a moment that the Black establishment in control of Baltimore will fail to condemn the officers to the highest penalty allowed by Law.?
Democratic hard left control of Baltimore is the main cause of the riots and racial division in spite that all the power is in the hand of Black democrats for several generations.
Baltimore Mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, ordered the police: to “stand down” “LET THEM LOOT. IT’ S ONLY PROPERTY”. We saw hell explode after the Black democratic mayor gave the thugs carte blanche to destroy the city. The police weren’t allowed to defend the city. More than 100 officers were injured, some seriously.
Baltimore needs a new mayor with courage and integrity, Toya Graham, the mother that took his son from the mob.
“The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.p.” Dem. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (In office January 3, 1977 – January 3, 2001)
“The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life. Dem. senator Daniel Moynihan
Facts are irrelevant for Anarchists, Communists, professionals agitators and “community organizers” followers of Marxist Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” strategy.
Obama is the most racist and divisive president in our history. Obama has been inflaming racial tension since he took power.
David Horowitz’ excellent recently published pamphlet “Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model” offers keen insights into Alinsky and what it might mean when Alinsky followers are in positions of power. The conclusions he reaches are not pleasant but are borne out by current events, public utterances of the president, his history, and the work of Alinsky himself.
What we are seeing is the most radical President in our country’s history who is unable to govern because governing is not his purpose. The Alinskyite, ever the destroyer of institutions, cannot govern because governments and societies are built upon institutions.
According to the FBI in 2011, 193 blacks were killed by whites, 448 White killed by Blacks while 2,447 blacks were killed by blacks. That is 2.3 times more whites killed by blacks than the other way around despite the fact that there’s six times as many whites in this country.
Do Black lives really matter? How many of the parents of Blacks murdered by Blacks received a call of Obama or send his personal representative to the funeral? Did our condolences in chief has ever called the parents of so many Whites killed by Blacks?
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke: Obama ‘Quietly Enjoying’ Unrest in Baltimore
therightpundit ^ | 4/29/15
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3284576/posts
Not holding back one bit. Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke says O is “quietly enjoying” what’s going on in Baltimore because he’s a ‘promoter of division’ and has ‘benefitted politically’ from ‘dividing’ people.
Sheriff Clarke points out all the times President Obama has pitted one group of Americans against another. He also questions why Obama didn’t come out and speak about the Baltimore riots earlier. He was interviewed here on the Mark Levin Show
Clarke: Change In Baltimore Should Start With “Failed Liberal Democrat Policies”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3284755/posts
Breitbart.com ^ | April 30,2015 | Ian Hanchett
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) blasted “failed liberal government policies” for miring people in cities like Baltimore in “generational poverty” and argued that change in Baltimore “needs to start in the politics, the failed liberal Democrat policies” on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.
Any pictures of the 6 accused?
Yet half the attackers of LEO and arsonists
were let free.
Red meat to the mob. If I were a Baltimore policeman, I would be dusting off my resume.
Are there bad officers?? Yes...but 6 at a time??
I would suggest this....if Gray’s arrest was illegal....most Baltimore cops will question why they need to perform any drug-related arrests and stand down on such actions in the future. If any situation appears to involve drugs...for a cop...just walk away and pretend it’s not part of the job.
Marilyn J. Mosby, the prosecutor overseeing the investigation into Freddie Gray's death, at a news conference in January. Credit Matt Roth for The New York Times
Ms Mosby's husband, Nick, is on city council.
And as another Freeper mentioned in another thread:
“Gray’s family, Billy Murphy.
Murphy was among Mosby’s biggest campaign contributors last year, donating the maximum individual amount allowed, $4,000, in June. He was also on Mosby’s transition team after the election, and Bates described him as a mentor to her.”
If three or more of the accused six officers are black, it’s not going to be a simple trial that includes “violated the deceased’ civil rights” with a slam dunk conviction on that charge alone.
If “racism” wasn’t a factor in Gray’s death, but massive incompetence was, their trials will be very complex & messy affairs.
The arrest had nothing to do with drugs. It was an arrest over a common pocket knife, that under Baltimore’s vague difinition, the arresting officer called a switchblade.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3285195/posts
I'm not saying it's the case here, but it would not be uncommon for a group of decent cops (or union members, or doctors, or whatever) to let one bad apple do what he wants, all in the name of solidarity.
Not to worry. They will all eventually be...........released. First amendment don’t you know.
The riots for this weekend are already planned and will proceed as scheduled.
“Gray’s arrest was illegal,”
How so ?
A huge black city justice. Example of what is to come.
Only because the drugs were gone by the time the police caught up with him. Why do you think he ran ? The description was given that Gray and the COP made eye contact. Gray had an arrest record for selling drugs/possessing large quantities of drugs, and in all probability was out there selling drugs when the cop 'eyeballed' him.
It was an arrest over a common pocket knife, that under Baltimore’s vague difinition, the arresting officer called a switchblade.
Meaning that is all they could arrest him for since he had run away and ditched the drugs. A bogus charge ? Pretty much.
Should they just have let him go ?
And even then there'll probably be celebratory riots.
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