It's all for Freddie.........
Much of the mainstream media coverage of the Baltimore riots has focused on the supposed misdeeds of police in a city with an alleged history of police brutality, but far less attention has been given to a number of complicating factors surrounding the outbreak.
Widespread rioting, looting, and burning erupted on Monday after the funeral of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who was arrested in Baltimore on April 12 and died a week later from spinal injuries he suffered while in custody.
Here is a Newsmax look at the 17 things about the Baltimore riots the media won't tell you:
1. Gray had an arrest record. He had been arrested a total of 22 times in Maryland, primarily for possession and distribution of illegal narcotics. Gray had been involved in 20 criminal court cases, five of which were still active at the time of his death.
2. Gray was armed. Police found him carrying a switchblade knife.
3. Police pursued Gray after he made eye contact with officers and fled. That's sufficient cause for pursuit if the fleeing suspect is in a drug-invested area, which Gray was.
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What difference at this point does it make?
ReplyDeleteWe are all criminals
We all know these "riots" aren't about police brutality
or some thugs untimely demise. Or timely demise depending upon how you look at it.
1) Irrelevant.
ReplyDelete2) Irrelevant.
3) Wanting to avoid contact with a government employee is not probable cause or a reasonable suspicion. The stop, search and arrest were all violations of Gray's rights.
4) Ignorance of the law is no excuse for a citizen, so why should ignorance of a policy be an excuse for a government employee? Also, it is a well known tactic of cops to put handcuffed citizens in the back of paddy wagons without seat belts, then rapidly accelerating and braking and taking turns at a higher rate of speed. Using physics to torture a citizen without laying a finger on them.
5) All cops lie, that is a part of their job. I wouldn't trust a cop to tell me what color the sky is.
6) A jailhouse snitch, another liar.
7-17) Have nothing to do with Gray.