Freddie Gray's death ruled a homicide, criminal charges to be filed

[vitterd]

Feel free to point out the flaw in the logic. And while you're at it, let's hear all about which section of the law only allows cops to use lethal force of the suspect is armed since you continue to babble about "unarmed black" horseshit.

Go on, ass jammer. We're all waiting.

Your comparison is so stupid I can't believe I have to explain why it isn't comparable. Directly provoking people who have crazy violent murdering faction is different than a woman's provocative outfit. If you cannot see the clear difference than you are nothing short of retarded. Not surprised you support that redneck idiotic state of Texas who do dumb shit like this all the time. This was a direct attempt to inflame an already explosive situation and has nothing in common with your idiotic comparison

Unarmed and running away....is that better? Stop trying to protect murdering cops. Fact is there are scumbag cops just like there are scumbags in your line of work...you being at the top of the list

 

[Dave007inVegas]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-ci-doj-partnership-20150506-story.html

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake asked the Justice Department on Wednesday to conduct a full-scale civil rights investigation into the pattern and practices of the Baltimore Police Department — a probe that would examine excessive force, discriminatory harassment, false arrests, and unlawful stops, searches or arrests.

"We all know that Baltimore continues to have a fractured relationship between the police and the community," Rawlings-Blake said. "I'm willing to do what it takes to reform my department."

Translation:

I’m incompetent, so to deflect attention from myself I’m going to throw my police department under the bus, I hope.

Who knew Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Bill de Blasio had anything in common other then being Democrat Mayors?

 

[LENBO]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-ci-doj-partnership-20150506-story.html

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake asked the Justice Department on Wednesday to conduct a full-scale civil rights investigation into the pattern and practices of the Baltimore Police Department — a probe that would examine excessive force, discriminatory harassment, false arrests, and unlawful stops, searches or arrests.

"We all know that Baltimore continues to have a fractured relationship between the police and the community," Rawlings-Blake said. "I'm willing to do what it takes to reform my department."

Translation:

I’m incompetent, so to deflect attention from myself I’m going to throw my police department under the bus, I hope.

Who knew Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Bill de Blasio had anything in common other then being Democrat Mayors?

.....And welcome Al Sharpton with open arms.

 

[Acebb]

Competence:

Freddie Gray arrest documents drawn up for wrong people

An attorney for Lt. Brian Rice said his client's information was also entered incorrectly when prosecutors filed charges, but declined further comment.
On Friday evening, Tammy and Brian Rice of Brunswick, Md. said they were receiving multiple calls from reporters looking for the lieutenant. Brian Rice of Brunswick is a plumber, they said.

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#1 Truncated Investigation
#2 No Grand Jury
#3 Sloppy, inaccurate work

I'm sure this is going to turn out swell for this prosecutor.

Yep.

 

[Acebb]

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When you announce at a news conference that you heard calls for 'no justice, no peace' when your job is to objectively examine facts, you are a dunce and should not be in your job.

This isn't going to end well.

Imagine Pavian with a law degree and you get Ms. Mosby.

 

[Acebb]

When she declared Freddy Gray's arrest "illegal" she was just making shit up

While Mosby said Friday that the officers had made an illegal arrest because a knife Gray was carrying was not a "switchblade," a violation of state law, the police task force studied the knife and determined it was "spring-assisted," which does violate a Baltimore code.

Apparently she also doesn't understand that whether or not the knife was legal under Maryland law is irrelevant to the fact that it is illegal in Baltimore. She also can't grasp that even if the knife was legal in Baltimore, it isn't relevant to probable cause.

This woman is not that bright and this trial will be a shit show.

Yep.

It will be about 3 hours before we hear how racist the jury is.

 

[superbeets]

Freddie Gray trial: officer Edward Nero found not guilty on all charges




Baltimore police officer, the first of six officers to receive a verdict in the case, found not guilty of assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office







A judge found a Baltimore police officer not guilty on all of the charges against him for his involvement in the death of Freddie Gray. Officer Edward Nero is the first of six officers charged to receive a verdict since Gray’s death sparked uprising in the city more than a year ago.



Gray, a 25-year-old African American man, died a week after his arrest from injuries he sustained in police custody, setting off weeks of protest, followed by a riot, a state of emergency, and a curfew.



Judge Barry Williams ruled Monday that Nero was not guilty of assault, reckless endangerment, or misconduct in office.


Nero was one of the two officers who arrested Gray. A video recording of the initial encounter with Nero and fellow officer Garrett Miller that went viral after Gray’s death shows Gray screaming with his legs twisted up as he is dragged to the police van.



Nero and Miller arrested Gray after Lt. Brian Rice claimed that Gray fled upon seeing police and called in a foot chase. Gray’s best friend, who was with him that morning, testified that Gray ran just before seeing the police and was not running from them. When Nero and Miller stopped Gray they still didn’t know why their lieutenant ordered them to chase Gray.



Prosecutors charged Nero with assault based on a novel legal theory that Nero committed a crime when he arrested Gray without meeting the legal standard of probable cause. Because the arrest was illegal, they reasoned, any contact with Gray after that was assaultive. They also argued that even if it was Miller and not Nero who initially detained and arrested Gray that Nero was still responsible as an accomplice.



Judge Williams peppered the prosecutors with skeptical questions about this theory during the trial
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“You’re saying here in this court that if there’s an arrest and there isn’t probable cause, it is a crime?” Williams repeatedly asked prosecutors.

Nero was also charged with reckless endangerment, for helping load Gray onto the floor of the police van in handcuffs and shackles without hooking his seatbelt. The medical examiner ruled that Gray died due to a catastrophic spinal injury that occurred in the van. Numerous police witnesses testified that it is the van driver’s responsibility to hook the seat belt. Caesar Goodson, who was driving the van that allegedly killed Gray, is the next officer to stand trial.


Though the state argued that failing to follow a police department general order constitutes misconduct in office, Williams seems to have accepted a stricter standard of the law, which requires an element of “corruption” in order to make such a failure criminal.

 

[GasMan]

Lol...racist white cops...oh, wait....3 of them were black?
Huh...kinda fucks the dimocrap narrative.

 

[superbeets]

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A police officer shakes the hand of Edward Nero as he leaves court after he was found not guilty of all charges in relation to the death of Freddie Gray

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He was surrounded by police officers and appeared to have avoided crowds of protesters following the verdict

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Nero (center) pictured with members of his legal team had faced assault, misconduct and reckless endangerment charges following the death of the 25-year-old

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Demonstrators gathered outside the courthouse for the verdict as Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced that city officials were braced for any disturbance

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A man, believed to part of Edward Nero's family, is led away from the court by members of the media as the cop exited in a car on the other side of the building

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The supporter acted as a decoy for Nero. He was followed by the media after leaving the court while the officer slipped out of another door while shaking hands with police

 

[Acebb]

Prosecutors had argued that Nero committed an assault by detaining Gray without justification, while the reckless endangerment charge related to Nero's role in putting Gray into an arrest wagon without buckling a seat belt. In closing arguments Thursday, Williams had skeptically questioned prosecutors about their theory of assault, which legal experts said was unprecedented.

Williams said there were "no credible facts" to show that Nero was directly involved in Gray's arrest, and said testimony showed Nero's role in putting Gray in the van was minimized by the actions of others and not unreasonable given his training.



Mosby is an affirmative action baby and this outcome was entirely predicable (as I said it would be a shit show). Imagine Pavian with a law degree and you get Ms. Mosby.

 

[SheriffJoe]

Lol...racist white cops...oh, wait....3 of them were black?
Huh...kinda fucks the dimocrap narrative.

Black people should resist arrest because of racist black cops! ointer:

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Black people should resist arrest because of racist black cops! ointer:

Freddie Gray should never have listened to Vit.

 

[superbeets]

Freddie Gray

He was a drug involved person.

The reports are he was a drug addict and a street level dealer.


His interactions with police escalated over the years because of his narcotics involvement.

This needs spotlighting.


Baltimore does have a serious drug problem, maybe the Heroin capital of the world according to the Discovery channel.

 

[Acebb]

 

[Acebb]

Another shining moment for Mosby

 

[Seymour]

What's fucken crazy is this politcally and racially motivated prosecutor is gonna keep on with this shit against the remaining officers to appease the black lives matter crowd

 

[LENBO]

To the youth of this city: I will seek justice on your behalf,” she promised. “This is a moment, this is your moment. [...]You’re at the forefront of this cause. And as young people, our time is now.”


Epic fail at an attempt for political gain.
Incompetent , just like the Mayor.

 

[superbeets]

Another Guesser Fail


Guesser = DaFinch

Shush()*



Its all so supratentorial with Jane Eva Guesser .

 

[superbeets]

It was good van driving in the end, a competent driver.

 

[superbeets]

And the family laughed all the way to the bank


On September 8, 2015, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced that the city had reached a $6.4 million settlement with Gray's family. Rawlings-Blake said the settlement “should not be interpreted as a judgment on the guilt or innocence of the officers facing trial", but had been negotiated to avoid "costly and protracted litigation that would only make it more difficult for our city to heal".