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?
Now it’s the LEOs’ turn to become angry and feel betrayed. This will be interesting.
If that’s the case, shut down those cops! PERIOD
THAT is not law enforcement by anybody’s standards!
No surprise at all...
I would LOVE for every LEO in Baltimore, Philly, DC and Ferguson to walk off the job and let the animals run wild.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Citywide barbeque this weekend.
This is the first time I’ve seen the officers involved identified by name. Is it really the first time?
In the past few similar situations the names have been released (often under demand by the protesters) before charges are filed or not filed. If thats not the case here, why didn’t it happen sooner and why weren’t the protesters making a bigger deal about it?
So he wasn’t breathing but they still performed surgery??
They said he wasn't breathing at all when they took him from the van. So they got him going again how and who???
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.
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.
-——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
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.
Remember when Amadou Diallo happened, and they practically had Rudy Giuliani pulling the trigger himself?
This Mayor, Rawlings-Blake, should get the exact same treatment, it was on her watch.
To keep the natives from getting restless.
Probably this will end up like the cops who were put on trial in L. A., for the Rodney King beating. The first trial had to be held in a different jurisdiction; a change of venue. The cops were found “not guilty” and then the rioting, looting, killing, arson began. A second trial was ordered by the feds to get the result they wanted. If this happens with the Baltimore police officers, the protesters can take to the streets again and burn the remaining neighborhoods.
Have to say the State’s attorney should be arrested for her terrible voice! She’s not biased at all - her indignant and angry tone of voice says it all! She had to dig to the bottom of the barrel for that many charges against the cops. A 35 year old, inexperienced State Attorney is going to make a name for herself. How pitiful. She had to run for the office so we can’t call it affirmative action but we know it was a given when you consider the political makeup of the state.