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Charges against three remaining officers dropped

Prosecutors dropped all remaining charges against three Baltimore police officers accused in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray in a downtown courtroom on Wednesday morning, concluding one of the most high-profile criminal cases in Baltimore history.

The startling move was an apparent acknowledgement of the unlikelihood of a conviction following the acquittals of three other officers on similar and more serious charges by Circuit Judge Barry G. Williams, who was expected to preside over the remaining trials as well.

 

It also means the office of Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby will secure no convictions in the case after more than a year of dogged fighting, against increasingly heavy odds, to hold someone criminally accountable in Gray's death.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/ne...-20160727-story.html

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It also means the office of Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby will secure no convictions in the case after more than a year of dogged  desperate fighting, against increasingly heavy odds, with full support of the Obama administration, to hold someone a police officer criminally accountable in Gray's death.

 

 

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What will happen to mosley for her criminal behavior? Nothing. The lefties are always squawking about what should happen to WHITE prosecutors/cops they claim are trying to railroad blacks, but not a squeak about blacks framing whites.

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Freddie Gray Autopsy Report Deals Blow to Murder Charges

Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby has withheld the autopsy report on Freddie Gray from defense counsel and the public for nearly two months. It is the report on which she relied to file murder and other charges against six police officers, even though the investigation into Mr. Gray’s death was not close to being complete. Now, just two days before Friday’s court deadline for the state to disclose the report to the defense, it has been leaked to the Baltimore Sun.
The Sun’s story makes it easier to understand why Ms. Mosby wanted the autopsy kept under wraps. It raises additional disturbing questions about her case — a case in which she has already had to dismiss false-imprisonment charges, the untenable nature of which I explained when Mosby filed them.
It turns out that Mr. Gray “tested positive for opiates and cannabinoid.” Moreover, he carried on wildly when initially placed in the police van. It had previously been widely reported that he was not belted into his seat, a violation of recently adopted Baltimore police policy that Mosby dubiously makes the plinth of her case. The Sun’s latest dispatch, however, indicates that Gray was making matters difficult for the police: “yelling and banging, ‘causing the van to rock,’ the autopsy noted.” The van made several stops during its 45-minute ride. At the second one, six minutes after the arrest, Gray was reportedly “still yelling and shaking the van.” Police thus removed him and placed him in leg restraints — ankle cuffs, to go along with the handcuffs that had already been applied. Gray was “then slid onto the floor of the van, belly down and head first,” according to the autopsy report, which gingerly adds that he was, at that point, “still verbally and physically active.” It’s now easier to understand why Mosby wanted the autopsy kept under wraps: It raises additional disturbing questions about her case. It was after this, the medical examiner concluded, that Gray suffered a severe spinal injury (which led to his death, a week later). At some undetermined point during the van’s journey, he was catapulted by the force of its deceleration and crashed into the interior. The injury is likened to a “shallow-water diving accident.” Significantly, however, the medical examiner, Carol H. Allan, surmised that Gray probably could not have sustained his severe injuries if he’d remained in the prone position the police had put him in. The Sun report elaborates: While it’s possible Gray was hurt while lying on the floor and moving back and forth, Allan determined that his body likely couldn’t have moved in that position with enough force to cause his injuries. Allan surmised that Gray could have gotten to his feet using the bench and opposite wall. With his hands and ankles restrained, and unable to see out of the van and anticipate turns, she said, he was at a high risk for an unsupported fall. Thus, the most likely scenario is that Gray, under the influence of narcotics and in the course of making his transport difficult for the arresting officers, elected on his own to get to his feet despite the difficulty of doing so. Under circumstances where his arms and legs were restrained, Gray’s decision to change the position the police had put him in rendered him vulnerable to the “high-energy” injury he sustained. This is not to say the police should not have done a better job of securing Gray. But we are not talking here about whether they violated procedure and prudence. We are talking about whether their conduct warrants prosecution for murder and lesser forms of culpable homicide. The driver of the van, Officer Caesar R. Goodson Jr., is charged with depraved-heart murder in the second degree. In his case, the question is whether he acted with such wanton indifference to Gray’s life that his conduct should be considered just as blameworthy as if he had fully intended to kill Gray. As one Maryland court has instructed: This highly blameworthy state of mind is not one of mere negligence. It is not merely one even of gross criminal negligence. It involves rather the deliberate perpetration of a knowingly dangerous act with reckless and wanton unconcern and indifference as to whether anyone is harmed or not. The common law treats such a state of mind as just as blameworthy, just as antisocial and, therefore, just as truly murderous as the specific intents to kill and harm. It is blatant overreach, on the facts spelled out in the autopsy report, to describe Goodson’s conduct as the “depraved heart” equivalent of willfully murdering Freddie Gray. Also suspect are Mosby’s charges of involuntary manslaughter against Goodson and three other cops — Lieutenant Brian W. Rice, Sergeant Alicia D. White, and Officer William F. Porter. Involuntary manslaughter is the unintentional killing of another by a negligent act, which can include the failure to perform a legal duty. Obviously, the prosecutor’s claim that Goodson acted negligently contradicts her claim, in the murder charge, that he acted with a degree of depravity functionally equivalent to intentional killing. That aside, Mosby’s manslaughter case hinges on two police omissions: the failures to secure Gray in a seatbelt and to get him sufficiently prompt medical attention. Gray was arrested at about 8:40 a.m. on April 12, after he’d fled in a high-crime area upon making eye contact with Lieutenant Rice. It was Rice who ordered Goodson to take Gray to the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center. It was also at Rice’s direction that the recalcitrant Gray was placed in leg restraints and belly down during the van’s afore-described second stop, shortly after the arrest. To repeat, the autopsy indicates that Gray would not have sustained his fatal injuries if he had remained as Rice had positioned him; nevertheless, Rice is charged with manslaughter. 

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/...es-andrew-c-mccarthy

The woman, just like Obama, is an embarrassment to her position.  She should be disbarred for her actions and actually be prosecutable, by the citizens of Baltimore and each of the officers for the damage that the trials did to the cities financially and for the officer's reputations.  

The family of Freddy Grey got some 6 million dollars from the city.  Each officer should get no less than 1 million for their aggravation and troubles for they will always walk around with a stigma on them so I saw Baltimore should pony up and reimburse these officers for their troubles and personal damage and immediacy dismiss Mosley as prosecutor for her own incompetence.  

 

They're only hiring black radicals aren't they? ~ Giftedamateur

Not based on what I've seen or that I'm aware of.

'We're Hiring': Dallas Police Chief Asks Young Black Men to Be 'Part of the Solution'*

Doesn't sound like he's targeting BRs to me.

Anyhow,  I doubt that BRs could make it past the DPD initial qualifications which include

4. Must not have committed any felony or Class A Misdemeanor.

5. Have no Class B Misdemeanor convictions within the last 10 years. **

and you know BRs use their criminal arrest record like the rest of us use a resume.  Just ask Jesse or Al.

http://insider.foxnews.com/201...become-part-solution

**  https://dpdbeat.com/recruiting/

If I were a black LEO in Baltimore, I'd buy a one way ticked to Dallas.

And if I were I white cop, I'd go with them.  Either Dallas or Baton Rouge.  I would not work in a town where I was not appreciated.  Let the BLM and azz kissing liberals have the Chicago kind of law enforcement they deserve.  Anarchy.

Screw Baltimore.  Ferguson, too.

 

Bestworking posted:

I thought he made the statement/offer during a "protest" by the blm bunch.

This is a close as I could come:

Dallas Police Chief Has THIS Message For Black Lives Matter Protesters

In a press conference Monday, Dallas Police Chief David Brown told young black men to improve their communities by joining law enforcement in their hometowns.

“Become a part of that solution,” Brown said. “Serve your communities. Don’t be a part of the problem. We’re hiring. We’re hiring. Get off that protest line and put an application in. We’ll put you in your neighborhood and we will help you resolve some of the problems you’re protesting about.”

Read more: http://www.thepoliticalinsider...sters/#ixzz4FiL7H2SG

 I can find nothing regarding Chief Brown making such a statement during the protest.

 

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Bud, because he extended the offer to the protesters.

“Become a part of that solution,” Brown said. “Serve your communities. Don’t be a part of the problem. We’re hiring. We’re hiring. Get off that protest line and put an application in. We’ll put you in your neighborhood and we will help you resolve some of the problems you’re protesting about.”

 

Bestworking posted:

Bud, because he extended the offer to the protesters.

“Become a part of that solution,” Brown said. “Serve your communities. Don’t be a part of the problem. We’re hiring. We’re hiring. Get off that protest line and put an application in. We’ll put you in your neighborhood and we will help you resolve some of the problems you’re protesting about.”

 

So are y'all saying that all the protestors are Black Radicals?  The ones who told those "open carry" idiots to turn over their guns?  The ones who praised the actions of the LEO's during the shooting?  The ones who followed the orders of the LEOs to move?

Still not following.

DPD has a well deserved rep with their community policing program.  I don't think they got there recruiting white hating black cops.

And I don't think Chief Brown intends to start now.  Might want to reconsider the meaning of his message. 

 

direstraits posted:
Bestworking posted:

Yep, that's all dallas and any other police dept needs, a bunch of radical, white hating black cops. Would make the cop haters happy though.

He said he would put them in their neighborhoods.  After a couple of years, I suspect reality would set in, as survival instincts take hold.

Black LEOs are already in their neighborhoods.  Have been for some time, at least the late 70's in the South and no signs of leaving.  You don't hear about it because its working.  When you see Dallas PD move, they move as BLUE, not black and white.

 All we hear about is the failures - Ferguson, Baltimore, Chicago, ad nauseam.  We saw hard core BR / BLM there.  Where were they in Dallas?  There was a perfect opportunity with the LEO's under fire for the crowd to turn on them. Didn't happen and it wasn't for a lack of firepower.  Y'all care to speculate as to why no bricks, fires, . . . . frozen water bottles?  Here's a hint.  Could be Dallas has no patience for black radicals.  And why is that?

The chief's message is clear.  If black lives matter, he says to young black men, take care of your community.  I'll be willing to bet that is not the first time he's delivered that message to predominately black gatherings.

You'd think white folks would have figured that out long ago.

 

Bestworking posted:

I'd say anyone that would be involved with blm is a radical racist, anti-cop, anti-white, and I'd hate to have them on a police force. "Get off that protest line and onto the police force where you can really do some damage". Or was he speaking to some other protesters besides the blm bunch?

He was speaking at a press conference issuing a challenge to the protesters.  After action reports conclude that only one during that protest could be positively identified as radical racist, anti-cop, anti-white.

It was the media, not the chief, who said he was talking to members of the BLM movement.  To suggest that all protesters  were radical racist, anti-cop, anti-white it to paint with way too broad a brush.  Witness interviews with participants.  Not a single one spoke out about racism, anti-cop, or anti-white except some sorry excuse of a white man with a red beard passing himself off as some kind of preacher / event organizer and yelling "G D America" and saying he admired Jerimiah Wright.  I'm thinking he need not apply to be a Dallas LEO.

 

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