Freddie Gray - All Charges Dropped

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After today's decision that means that each and every single officer (I believe there was eight that were initially charged) has been cleared after that spectacle the Baltimore DA made after those people tore the city apart. Here is the article:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/ma...i-miller-pretrial-motions-20160727-story.html

I have noticed a trend that of all these cases (that I can think of off the top of my head) where the police are blamed for something and then chaos ensues there has yet to be one case that has shown the officer was in the wrong.
 
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I'm not surprised, after losing the four best cases she had it made sense to not bother with the remaining ones. This entire thing was a shit show from the start by a politically ambitious DA.
 
GabeRegan said:
I'm not surprised, after losing the four best cases she had it made sense to not bother with the remaining ones. This entire thing was a shit show from the start by a politically ambitious DA.
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Makes me wonder what will happen to her next. I mean the city just wasted 6.4 million on a case that never had any viable evidence to place blame on the cops to begin with. I can't imagine the tax payers of Baltimore are happy about this. Especially so considering how much damage was done to their city due to her ridiculous press conference(s) which had to have upped the hate to the men in blue. Ridiculous.
 
exposethebad said:
Makes me wonder what will happen to her next. I mean the city just wasted 6.4 million on a case that never had any viable evidence to place blame on the cops to begin with. I can't imagine the tax payers of Baltimore are happy about this. Especially so considering how much damage was done to their city due to her ridiculous press conference(s) which had to have upped the hate to the men in blue. Ridiculous.
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I know nothing about Baltimore politics, but I can't imagine she would be able to get reelected without a serious fight. Any locals able to comment on this?
 
Internet War Criminal said:
Shouldn't have gone to trial in the first place, and I hope Mosby gets disbarred
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Agreed and as for your second point I am curious about that as well. The Maryland state bar can't be happy about how ridiculous she acted and the damage it caused. I mean, hell, even today she made the statement "as a Mother" which shows emotion which can't be included when prosecuting cases in a legal manner. She is a mess.
 
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There was little chance to get convictions out of this. Mosby seriously fucked up. She was looking for scapegoats.

The police in this situation were completely responsible for Freddie Gray's death. However, the way things are structured, getting evidence for police misconduct is seriously hamstrung.

Taking wild stabs at the problem of police brutality by bringing unprosecutable cases this is not the State's Attorney's job.
 
How was that in any way dumb iwc.


Another case of people not focusing on the real crux of the issue and people going after pity points or conspiracies
 
All I've been seeing are a bunch of people on Facebook absolutely losing their shit because this is apparently a "lack of justice" for Freddie, ignoring all of the evidence that it was a justified arrest and that Freddie had a lengthy criminal record.

Just a lesson as to how we should always wait for all of the information to come out before everyone rushes to judgment.
 
DerSandstrom said:
All I've been seeing are a bunch of people on Facebook absolutely losing their shit because this is apparently a "lack of justice" for Freddie, ignoring all of the evidence that it was a justified arrest and that Freddie had a lengthy criminal record.

Just a lesson as to how we should always wait for all of the information to come out before everyone rushes to judgment.
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You don't settle something for $6.4 million if absolutely nothing wrong happened. That just is not always sufficient for a criminal conviction. People don't just die while being transported from fatal spinal injuries without someone fucking up somehow. In this case, it was from violating policy and not securing him inside the transportation, the most charitable interpretation being he somehow fell and injured or further injured himself.

That's negligence, though. Not murder.

It's pretty obvious to drop the weaker cases after you lose the strongest.
 
exposethebad said:
Makes me wonder what will happen to her next. I mean the city just wasted 6.4 million on a case that never had any viable evidence to place blame on the cops to begin with. I can't imagine the tax payers of Baltimore are happy about this. Especially so considering how much damage was done to their city due to her ridiculous press conference(s) which had to have upped the hate to the men in blue. Ridiculous.
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She'll run for Congress in the gerrymandered district where the riots took place, and stupid fucks will vote for her. A quarter of Baltimore's population is below the poverty line, and I bet the majority is in that area and pay little to no taxes.
 
muina said:
How was that in any way dumb iwc.
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It was a legal arrest, it was clearly an accident and it was so painfully evident it was a dumb political ploy by a power hungry Mosby to build a career on this

This should have never gone to trial, same with Zimmerman and Darren Wilson

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In this case, it was from violating policy and not securing him inside the transportation, the most charitable interpretation being he somehow fell and injured or further injured himself.
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That policy had only been in effect for a week. Before that for decades they were never secured and non retards who didn't chimp out but stayed sitting never got injured
 
CWCchange said:
She'll run for Congress in the gerrymandered district where the riots took place, and stupid fucks will vote for her. A quarter of Baltimore's population is below the poverty line, and I bet the majority is in that area and pay little to no taxes.
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She doesn't need a gerrymandered district. Baltimore is over 60% black. She could run for mayor saying, "At least I tried!" and have a good chance of winning.
 
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People don't just die while being transported from fatal spinal injuries without someone fucking up somehow.
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Didn't the injury take place before he was put into the van? Or that was what the police statement was, wasn't it? I recall him being dragged by a couple cops.
 
If the prosecutor was smart she would have given them manslaughter or something. She probably would have had a better case there. Then again knowing what I know about our justice system they were probably getting off in any circumstance. Juries, prosecutors, and judges all tend to avoid sending cops to jail. One of the fragile unspoken rules that holds the US justice system together is an understanding between police unions and justice department officials that if cops fuck up they won't go to jail and nobody will ever hear about it. Anybody who follows this issue can tell you how difficult it is to convict police officers. Just to put this in perspective, the Eric Garner video was pretty much a clear cut case of police brutality. Not only did they kill the guy over loose cigarettes (and it's debated whether he was even selling loosies to begin with), they choked him out using a maneuver that's explicitly banned in the NYPD. None of those cops were even charged. Reason isn't that they did nothing wrong, reason is that there's no political will in the city to deal with this, and that extends to the entire court system.

She charged them with murder for two reasons: to satiate public anger and (arguably) send a message to the rest of the police department that this kind of shit isn't going to be tolerated anymore. In both counts she failed. You can't really give her points for political savvy in that department either because it was obvious what she was doing.
 
feedtheoctopus said:
She charged them with murder for two reasons: to satiate public anger and (arguably) send a message to the rest of the police department that this kind of shit isn't going to be tolerated anymore. In both counts she failed. You can't really give her points for political savvy in that department either because it was obvious what she was doing.
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The medical examiner finding it a homicide kind of forced the issue. You could find it justifiable, which it really wasn't, or do something. If there was a mistake, it was in going for a convoluted and obscure murder theory (depraved heart) that is difficult to prove in the best of cases.

This wasn't a case like the Duke Lacrosse case where they plunged on in light of actual evidence that the accused were outright innocent, a stunt that got Mike Nifong disbarred and even briefly jailed.
 
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The medical examiner finding it a homicide kind of forced the issue. You could find it justifiable, which it really wasn't, or do something. If there was a mistake, it was in going for a convoluted and obscure murder theory (depraved heart) that is difficult to prove in the best of cases.
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Except that the whole 'finding it an homicide' thing came later he first said it was accidental then got pressured.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-baltimore-police-idUSKCN0Z21Z0


A Maryland medical examiner twice told investigators that the death of black detainee Freddie Gray from a broken neck in a police van was an accident, a Baltimore detective testified on Thursday.

Taking the stand for the defense in the van driver's murder trial, Police Detective Dawnyell Taylor said Dr. Carol Allan had contradicted her official report that Gray's death in April 2015 was a homicide.

"She said that it was a freakish accident, and that no human hands had caused his injury," she said as the defense for Officer Caesar Goodson Jr. began presenting its case in Baltimore City Circuit Court.
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The prosecution pressured him and tried to hide what he initially said from the defense during all trials
 
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