Baltimore Burning
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/ma...rter-trial-jury-wednesday-20151216-story.html
Mistrial. (Hung jury?)
Mistrial. (Hung jury?)
Second, or is he third, officer found not guilty.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...s-key-police-verdict-protests-today/86278414/
Question: Will these acquittals spark riots in the street (e.g. Rodney King)? Will the Feds bring in their own charges (e.g. Rodney King)?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...s-key-police-verdict-protests-today/86278414/
Question: Will these acquittals spark riots in the street (e.g. Rodney King)? Will the Feds bring in their own charges (e.g. Rodney King)?
The officer here was charged with the most serious offences including 2nd degree murder. This bodes well for the remaining officers who face trial.Second, or is he third, officer found not guilty.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...s-key-police-verdict-protests-today/86278414/
Question: Will these acquittals spark riots in the street (e.g. Rodney King)? Will the Feds bring in their own charges (e.g. Rodney King)?
In the end the prosecution will have failed to convict anybody yet the city gave Freddie Gray's family millions of dollars for wrongful death. What a farce.
This prosecutor should be held to account for abuse of the public trust and treasury. I say charge the bitch.
If you think Police officers prevent murders...nevermind. All of your posts are anti everything middle aged white male. So...ya. I'm wasting my time.Murders are up (43 in May) and arrests are down.
Looks like the police have decided to stop "hassling" the good residents of Baltimore.
All 3 who have been tried have been acquitted. Time to drop the charges against the remaining 3. Better to be 0-3 than 0-6.The officer here was charged with the most serious offences including 2nd degree murder. This bodes well for the remaining officers who face trial.
It was overcharging from the outset and many in the legal community said so. However that was drowned out by the "Black Lives Matter" and now the whole case is dust.
Apparently not. All charges rightfully dismissed!Baltimore PD kinda brought this one on itself. Although the good cops are going to be targeted along w the bad ones.
Turns out they were just fine. Never prejudge!!!!Do you mean the assistant prosecutor who resigned after this tweet?
"So I am watching the news in Baltimore and see large swarms of people throwing bricks, etc at police who are fleeing from their assaults ... 15 in the hospital already. Solution. Simple. Shoot em. Period. End of discussion. I don't care what causes the protestors to turn violent...what the 'they did it because' reason is...no way is this acceptable. Flipping disgusting."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/...e-Police-should-shoot-Freddie-Gray-protestors
By the way, it really doesn't look good that before the cops who killed Gray were arrested, the police went and arrested the man who videotaped the arrest.
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2...rs-that-police-were-trying-to-intimidate-him/
Baltimore law enforcement is really not looking good.
Either that or the system is messed up and justice failing.Turns out they were just fine. Never prejudge!!!!
At least up here we will hear what Forcillo will get in sentencing for his shooting of a civilian, I have way more trust in the Canadian system.
Is the justice system messed up?Either that or the system is messed up and justice failing.
At least up here we will hear what Forcillo will get in sentencing for his shooting of a civilian, I have way more trust in the Canadian system.
Yes. But the (rightful) lack of conviction and dropping of charges isn't an indication of that. The REST of the justice system is an indication of that.
I don't know if they have it up in Canada, but you can find "The First 48" or "Lockup" online fairly easy. No, they're not necessarily the most representative of murder cases, but from people I know in law enforcement they're pretty damn close to being representative of the kind of murder cases that are seen.
Poor people in America, and in particular poor African Americans in America, don't know jack shit about the legal system. The number of times you see someone ADMIT TO FELONY MURDER and think they're in the clear because they're not the one who pulled the trigger is astonishing. The number of murderers who don't ask for a lawyer, who are just plain dumb enough to talk to the police when they know they've committed a murder and the number of innocent witnesses who ask for a lawyer when all that does is increase the chances of them getting scrutinized for the crime, etc. It's astonishing.
African Americans, yes terribly, live in an environment where their chance of going to prison is insanely high, yet there is little to no understanding of the legal system which puts so many into prison. It's like being a "hobbyist" and not knowing anything about STD transmission or how the birds and the bees work. It must be like living in an electrical power plant and not knowing what electricity is. All you know is that every once in a while someone gets zapped and dies, and the cause-effect relationship is utterly magical.
It's genuinely shocking.
Yes, cops get off on charges a heck of a lot more than Joe Average, the African American. Because they damn well know a little about the law, and they know the system. Can innocent people be charged? Absolutely! And if the accused doesn't know what he or she is doing, they're FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED. And many, many are, out of pure ignorance of the system in which they live. It's shocking.
