If a suspect were to bite the cop while he was being arrested, then yes, his mouth could be considered as a weapon, especially if he's wearing some of those metal chompers.
Posted on 08/10/2016 3:09:10 PM PDT by Ennis85
A US justice department report has accused police in the city of Baltimore of routinely discriminating against black people and using excessive force. An inquiry was ordered after a young black man, Freddie Gray, died in police custody in April of last year, sparking Baltimore's worst riots for decades. The report found African-Americans had been disproportionately targeted. Unjustified strip searches were conducted while in one arrest, a black man's weapon was listed as "his mouth". In recent years, the justice department has conducted similar investigations into the police in Chicago, Cleveland, Albuquerque and Ferguson, Missouri. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake responded to Wednesday's report by promising speedy reforms.
The statistics are damning and the individual cases studies are alarming. The report talks of one black man being stopped 30 times in four years without ever being charged and 60 cases of the police being accused of using the N-word in interactions with black people, though only one of those incidents being recorded as the use of a racial slur. But the report's findings seem to have surprised very few here. The feeling among many is that American policing is beset with systemic racism, with Baltimore having a particularly bad record. The fact that around 40% of the city's police force is now African American does not appear to have been enough to turn things around. The Department of Justice has recommended a push towards community policing, a style of law enforcement that has been resisted by forces in other parts of the country.
"Over the next few months, we will put in place a concrete plan for change and a new culture - for the good of the city, the police department and the people it protects," she said in a statement.
The report runs to 163 pages. Among the findings:
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They think they have problems now....just wait until USgov/teamobama federalizes the police. Obamalaw coming to your town soon.
USgov=teamobama. Blake is on the White House panel to federalize the police.
If a suspect were to bite the cop while he was being arrested, then yes, his mouth could be considered as a weapon, especially if he's wearing some of those metal chompers.
When is the government going to investigate the harassment of armed licensed travelers from other states driving through that crap hole state.
Nothing like stacking the deck against law enforcement people by having your people blackballing Baltimore cops. This “report” is nothing more than creating a falsehood so odumbo can get his UN buddies in control on our soil. Beware odumbo, such a plan could backfire should the natives get restless.
If I was a Baltimore cop I would become a casual observer.
I would never have said this before this year, but the cops should strike, all of 'em.
Lynch refuses to even INVESTIGATE the Clinton Foundation, let alone indict them.
If these cities weren’t so dependent on the gov’t for cash, they’d be able to tell these creeps to pound sand.
Jaws got nothing on this dude. I met him once in California. I thought he was great in Moonraker. I originally thought he was European. No, he was from Detroit, Michigan.
Never mind that most all of the officials in charge of the police were all black Democrats.
Let’s leave that part clear out of the story.
Of course, this is a reaction to the total smackdown of the affirmative-action loser, Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby. Since FedGov did not get the police lynched by Mosby, it now seeks to do the job itself.
If I was a Baltimore cop I would become a casual observer.
me, too.
I think many cops already are.
This is a win-win. Cops will be forced to back off and perps can run free.
Federalized they will be like TSA on steroids.
“When You Care Enough to Send the Very Best"
What has the US Government become? It shouldn’t be hard to realize that we have become a corrupt communists club of criminals that have and will destroy America. It is damn near that now.
No hope for America. Trump will be too late.
The issue I have with these reports is the lack of context... ie demographics of the neighborhoods of where people are stopped. Baltimore, like many North Eastern cities is racially divided. So if the police are regularly stopping people in black areas of the city, who else should they be stopping?
The liberals have destroyed our educational system at every level, they have removed God from the public square, Obama has destroyed our military, our astronauts have to hitch rides with the Russians, they have corrupted the federal justice department, and now they are attacking the local police departments. The process is almost complete. Can,t blame the pathetic condition of Congress on the liberals alone because the conservatives have contributed their fair share to the pollution of those once hallowed halls.
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