MonarchManiac
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Baltimore Officers Charged
Homicide. 2nd degree murder.
Many of the other officers get involuntary manslaughter and assault charges.
Wow.
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Fo Shizzle
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RE: Baltimore Officers Charged
The city need to be burned for this to happen?
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Fitbud
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RE: Baltimore Officers Charged
(05-01-2015 10:09 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote: The city need to be burned for this to happen?
Yes
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mptnstr@44
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RE: Baltimore Officers Charged
I'm not surprised that they were charged.
Heads were going to have to roll to satisfy the mob and the city leaders.
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TheEagleWay
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RE: Baltimore Officers Charged
I doubt it. This would have been investigated regardless of riots and looting.
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Paul M
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RE: Baltimore Officers Charged
Not sure they are doing this because they are convinced it's justified more than fearful of continued thuggery.
If he hit some protruding bolt and did this himself, isn't negligence the worse the cops have hanging on them? If there is new information I haven't heard today, nm.
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Tom in Lazybrook
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RE: Baltimore Officers Charged
(05-01-2015 10:09 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote: The city need to be burned for this to happen?
No. But impunity by police officers and nullification by juries leads to a lack of faith in the justice system.
Was this inevitable. No. Was it inevitable given no action in response to Zimmerman, Ferguson, NYC, and likely low levels of action in Tulsa and Charleston....and the continuing avalanche of these types of deaths with little or no punishment for those responsible for overstepping their authority. Sadly yes. Not saying its' right, but its completely foreseeable.
At some point people need to understand that you don't have a right to just whack some African American, even if they are a gangbanger with a record (or just an innocent kid packing skittles in a white man's neighborhood)...And the penalty for mouthing off to a white man shouldn't be death.
I have a few solutions to try and reduce the chance of this happening. It involves reducing guns in society, hiring cops from the communities served (for example, if you won't live in Baltimore City - don't work there as a cop). And some additional legislation to ensure that impunity for police officers overstepping their authority is harder to engender. But there's little political will to do those things.
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shiftyeagle
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RE: Baltimore Officers Charged
(05-01-2015 10:11 AM)Fitbud Wrote: (05-01-2015 10:09 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote: The city need to be burned for this to happen?
Yes
Man, stop.
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EverRespect
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RE: Baltimore Officers Charged
I don't pretend to know what happened here. I just hope these officers will go through this ordeal based on the evidence and justice and not based on how it should look. I guess we will know in time. My gut tells me that 6 police officers did not conspire with each other to kill this guy, but I could be wrong.
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05-01-2015 10:20 AM |
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shiftyeagle
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RE: Baltimore Officers Charged
I hope those who committed the violence feel like idiots now. They completely jumped the gun, acted out of ignorance. The officers are being charged, let the facts come out. Stop destroying ****.
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05-01-2015 10:20 AM |
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Fo Shizzle
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RE: Baltimore Officers Charged
(05-01-2015 10:11 AM)Fitbud Wrote: (05-01-2015 10:09 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote: The city need to be burned for this to happen?
Yes
That is a sadly cynical view of justice.
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gdunn
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RE: Baltimore Officers Charged
Fit is the one who says he was taught to run from the police..
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Fo Shizzle
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RE: Baltimore Officers Charged
(05-01-2015 10:20 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote: I hope those who committed the violence feel like idiots now. They completely jumped the gun, acted out of ignorance. The officers are being charged, let the facts come out. Stop destroying ****.
Those that destroyed and looted did not give a schit about this. It was just an opportunity to steal and act up. I saw plenty of citizens there in peaceful protest.
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05-01-2015 10:23 AM |
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Fo Shizzle
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RE: Baltimore Officers Charged
(05-01-2015 10:22 AM)gdunn Wrote: Fit is the one who says he was taught to run from the police..
My question. Who ever gets away when they run?
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UofMstateU
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RE: Baltimore Officers Charged
The mayor is also being charged for class A felony stupid....
(This post was last modified: 05-01-2015 10:25 AM by UofMstateU.)
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RE: Baltimore Officers Charged
(05-01-2015 10:12 AM)mptnstr@44 Wrote: I'm not surprised that they were charged.
Heads were going to have to roll to satisfy the mob and the city leaders.
...and the rule of law.
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Fitbud
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RE: Baltimore Officers Charged
(05-01-2015 10:22 AM)gdunn Wrote: Fit is the one who says he was taught to run from the police..
I was. Growing up, if the cops ever caught you, they would harass the crap out of you. Therefore, we learned a a very young age that if we saw a cop car, we would run.
Perhaps you didn't grow up in a neighborhood where the cops basically patroled your streets all the time.
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Redwingtom
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RE: Baltimore Officers Charged
(05-01-2015 10:21 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote: (05-01-2015 10:11 AM)Fitbud Wrote: (05-01-2015 10:09 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote: The city need to be burned for this to happen?
Yes
That is a sadly cynical view of justice.
Yeah...I don't like it either.
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Fitbud
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RE: Baltimore Officers Charged
(05-01-2015 10:26 AM)Redwingtom Wrote: (05-01-2015 10:21 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote: (05-01-2015 10:11 AM)Fitbud Wrote: (05-01-2015 10:09 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote: The city need to be burned for this to happen?
Yes
That is a sadly cynical view of justice.
Yeah...I don't like it either.
I'm sorry to say but it's true. I honestly think these cops would not have been charged had there been no video and no outcry.
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shiftyeagle
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RE: Baltimore Officers Charged
(05-01-2015 10:23 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote: (05-01-2015 10:20 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote: I hope those who committed the violence feel like idiots now. They completely jumped the gun, acted out of ignorance. The officers are being charged, let the facts come out. Stop destroying ****.
Those that destroyed and looted did not give a schit about this. It was just an opportunity to steal and act up. I saw plenty of citizens there in peaceful protest.
Indeed. Regardless, the senseless violence should cease immediately. It won't, though.
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