Onto his next 'job'..
Posted on 04/26/2015 6:24:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
We still don’t know what happened to Freddie Gray in Baltimore earlier this month, aside from the general agreement that he died in police custody with a nearly severed spine. The city’s leaders have been out in front of this, delivering information to the public as it comes in and investigating every aspect of the incident. There is clearly the possibility that there was police misconduct – or at least negligence in prompt medical care and safety precautions – going on, but the facts are still being gathered. Following yet another press conference where the mayor and the police commissioner brought citizens and the local clergy up to date at the end of the week, protesters delivered their response. We’re going to shut this city down.
Protesters vowed to “shut down” the city by marching through the streets and snarling traffic. The president of a black lawyers’ group predicted thousands of people would turn out for the demonstration, when good weather is forecast and the Baltimore Orioles host the Boston Red Sox.
“Things will change on Saturday, and the struggle will be amplified,” said Malik Shabazz of Black Lawyers for Justice. “It cannot be business as usual with that man’s spine broken, with his back broken, with no justice on the scene.”
Shabazz has demanded the arrest of six officers involved in the arrest of Gray, who died Sunday a week after suffering a spinal injury while in police custody.
The officers are suspended with pay and under criminal investigation by their own department. The U.S. Justice Department is reviewing the case for any civil rights violations, and Gray’s family is conducting their own probe.
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Well, either that or broken.
Freeloading MoFos gone wild. Maybe it’ll be such a hit it will be performed all over red states, who are so deserving.
Know what? I don’t care if they do burn Baltimore to the ground. In fact, I hope they do and I also hope the riots spread. I also hope it starts the showdown that is necessary and that it ends somehow better than things are now.
Those cops? They just don’t look very wholesome or objective to me but I should not read books by their covers. They do look like a group of PO’ed white guys that are sick of the constant bickering and lawlessness. That sentiment I share with them. In the last 60 years I have not seen much of anything but lawlessness and bickering by most blacks. As a whole, they never do settle down to the business of being part of society and earning a measure of well being. As a whole, they live with a chip on their shoulder and looking for something to be offended or angry about or something to provide an excuse for either failure or insurrection.
Today though, it does not involve me. Baltimore has a problem. Here at Lake Woebegotten it is a peaceful Sunday morning the crows and squirrels are having a nice time after they both got their best shares of a big scoop of peanuts. It is cloudy and looks like rain but we are enjoying the first wet spring in ages here in SE Texas.
Time for Bible study.
au contraire!
If the cops all take a day off, there’s no one around to enforce unconstitutional guns laws anyway.
I think the people who hate cops need to experience “Here’s what happens when we cops take a day off”.
... and the animals out there need about two days of “Here’s what happens when the cops take a day off and good civilians are packing heat”.
I could see several good results come of out those scenarios... including lots of overtime for the local Department of Sanitation.
RE: Mayor of Baltimore: Black
Police Chief: Black
City council: Majority black
Maryland: Controlled by Democrats for decades.
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Let’s not forget that the recent ex-governor of Maryland is planning to run for President.
Initial reports were that he had three neck vertebrae broken, and that nearly severed his spinal cord. Unless he had serious osteoporosis, that indicates some severe force was used on him, not that he was just held down and then got tossed around in the back of the van.
Some folks have described a "nickel game" that (they say) Baltimore cops like to play occasionally. According to them, the cops put a man in the back of a police van, handcuffed but no seatbelt. Then the cops race around the city, taking sharp turns. This has the effect of bouncing the man in the back of the van around.
...”Does anyone know HOW this thug got his back broke”.....
He ran....
I'm guessing it happened during the arrest (resisting arrest?). One video showed them dragging him toward the van... suggesting that his legs didn't work at that point.
At some point I guess the facts will leak out. They like to let these things simmer and boil for a while before they release the facts to us.
Once is a coincidence. Twice, not so much.
I’m glad you enjoyed your cruise... out of the Inner Harbor, I assume? Yes.. Baltimore has done tremendous work on cleaning up the city. The Inner Harbor is stunning at night. I am amazed at how many FReepers make comments and don’t realize that Baltimore has some great things. The violence last night was from outside agitators... none of them live in Baltimore. The regular Baltimore folks had a peaceful, Constitutional demonstration during the day. The violence started at night and from the outside agitators.
Two very old white guys. One brother in law white guy. And one token black.
The way Gray was treated every white person in Baltimore should be protesting with the blacks. When a man is screaming in pain and can’t move his legs it’s time to lay him down and get a medical professional to determine if he’s faking it.
I don’t understand why cops think they should continue to beat a suspect once five cops have him on the ground. Nor do I understand why cops think they should taze a man once five cops have him on the ground. What if one of the cops mistook his pistol for his tazer and shot him? Oh, wait, that already happened.
FLAME AWAY.
>>Free fire zones for anyone legally carrying, too.
This is the Freak State of Maryland. That would be about no one.
Some folks will take your post #52 as excusing the rioters. Of course, that's not what you're doing.
There are two sides to this story. Both are very ugly, and neither can be ignored.
Exactly correct, mrsmel. Cruz was present for the vote that mattered. Anyone who says otherwise either isn’t well informed, or is knowingly pushing nonsense.
Onto his next 'job'..
Freddie Gray was a travesty of justice.
But playing more “Knock Out Whitey” games and burning cities down isn’t the answer.
The black community has to understand we are ALL aggrieved parties in the Police State, and they must come together with us and (if voting matters any more) vote those who are Police State Fascists out of office.
But choose by the candidate, for there are just as many Police State Fascists in the Republican Party, as there are in the Democrat party.
OH cut that out.. Facts hurt.
They had dramatically reduced black on black crime
It used to be a blood bath city ..worse than chitown or d’ton.
Just when some blacks get things headed the right direction.. OH well.. looks like a rough ride ahead.
Actually this has a strong potential to be a disaster. Make Fergason look a bit tame. Metro DC to Baltimore to Philadelphia. That whole corridor has some of the densest black population.
If they do go on a rioting spree you can be guaranteed that the rich and affluent areas will be well defended at the cost of the poor areas which will be decimated in the event.
Night sticks used to get the job done.. the paddy wagons were never padded either.. or had seat belts..
sounds like he got a rough ride .. he was not secured and probably hit some potholes or who knows and ended up either jamming his neck or ??
No Flames Here!
Even police are human, some inhumane as a few get portrayed.. emotions run hot when it comes to noncompliant detainees.
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