what else do they HAVE??
Posted on 05/01/2015 5:13:26 PM PDT by yuffy
Maryland State’s Attorney and chief prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, announced charges on Friday morning against six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray.
Now, Mosby is facing scrutiny over her political ties to the city and close relationship with Billy Murphy, the attorney representing the Gray family. According to a report by the Daily Mail, concerns about the close ties have been raised by Baltimore defense attorney, Warren Brown.
Prior to the announced charges, Brown said that Mosby was under intense pressure to issue an indictment in the case:
“I think she has too much pressure to not indict, from the pressure of her husband’s constituents, of her mentor Billy Murphy, and of the pressure of making sure she wants to hold on to her job in four years.”
“She’s going to feel the need to indict.” Mosby’s election to the office just four months ago was funded in part by Murphy, who donated the largest allowable contribution ($4,000), and he is described as being a “mentor” to Mosby.
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Payback for campaign contributions ($4000).
Isn’t that special?
Sounds like the union is right about it this time.
Mr. Gray had several complaints against his business on file at The Better Business Bureau.
Of course there’s pressure to indict. That would exist whether or not there’s political ties between Marilyn Mosby and the city. Correct me if I’m wrong, but everything’s run by Democrats in that neck of the woods. If so, why would anyone be surprised by political ties between them or anyone else in the state/local governments?
That said, pressure to indict doesn’t mean there isn’t also sufficient cause to do so. Frankly, I don’t know why some FReepers are so convinced the police are innocent while others are adamant that the so called jack booted thugs, aka police, beat Freddie Gray to death. How can any of us know at this point what really happened?
Per Lou Dobbs, her immediate family has law enforcement ties that go back at least a couple of generations.
So she’s got pressure from both sides.
I am convinced everyone is innocent until they are proven guilty. You aren't?
In our country you are presumed innocent until proven guilty. This is not Socialist France.
“Frankly, I don’t know why some FReepers are so convinced the police are innocent”
Citizen USA has appeasititus, a rapidly growing infection of the cojones when race is involved
D/1st/502nd
You’re talking apples and oranges. An indictment isn’t a guilty verdict. All it means is the government’s prosecutor believes a crime was committed. It will still have to be proven one way or the other in a court of law (assuming it isn’t plea bargained).
I’m all for the prosecutor recusing herself if there’s even an appearance of a conflict of interest. That’s how the justice system should work—with an emphasis on should because reality is far different (case in point: SCOTUS and homosexual marriage). Regardless, none of us here likely knows enough to say the indictments aren’t justified.
Yawn. No different than when a police- friendly prosecutor, which is more common, investigates.
I’m not taking sides, because I don’t know enough about the case. I’m taking issue with those posters who jump to defend the police or attack them them for being jack booted thugs. Are police never wrong? Are all police jack booted thugs? Why do ignorant people take sides without knowing the facts?
BTW, no offense was meant by using the term, ignorant. Ignorance is simply the state of being uninformed. That applies to me in regards to whether the police accidentally (or intentionally) broke Freddie Gray’s neck, and I daresay it applies to nearly everyone else, too.
The Statement of Probable Cause had no “probable cause” in it justifying the charges. The charging document itself is deficient.
I consider someone innocent of charges until they are proven guilty, and I cannot support criminal charges against anyone when no probable cause has been demonstrated that indicates the charged crimes even occurred.
Had the Statement of Probable Cause established direct criminal action that caused the death, then it would be a different story. At most, I have heard (unreliable) media reports that could amount to a civil case for negligence. That’s a far cry from charging someone with a crime.
I support the rule of law.
Why the riots, looting and destruction of their own Black neighborhoods? 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? They will receive in a plate the head of 3 blacks and 3 white officers to placate the rabble of noisy angry thugs.
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.
Black 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.” 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 does not want unity. He wants to keep the country as polarized and disoriented as possible. Obama has been inflaming racial tension since he took power. According Alinisky’s tactics adopted by Obama, change has to be brought through relentless agitation and “trouble making” of a kind that radically disrupts society as it is.
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.
We wonder if Baltimore’s schools are forming thugs instead of educating the students for a fruitful and productive life? In Baltimore, taxpayers are currently spending $16,578 per year for each pupil in the city’s public schools. Not only is this 48% more than the national average of $10,608, but it’s more than any other country on the face of the earth spends on public education.
Nationwide 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.
I haven’t read the indictment text. I also agree with the rule of law, and if she doesn’t have sufficient probable cause to believe crimes were committed, then she shouldn’t prosecute regardless of riots or political pressure. However, you can’t trust media reports. There’s always a flurry of misinformation in situations like this.
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