If anybody think these charges are appropriate they are not living in reality.
Inb4 at least one of these officers get convicted and some people claim, "They were just convicted to appease the black citizens."
And anyone who would say something like that is ignorant beyond words
As they were not convicted that would be an absurd thing to say.
But in light of the Prosecutor's statement, anyone who would say that they were not charged to appease the rioters, is ignorant beyond words.
Did anybody here see the video of Gray being loaded into the van?
He was being dragged like his legs were already paralyzed.
Videos have been edited to show only that.
The full video shows him standing on his own on the vehicle and then ducking to get inside.
he claims his statement has been taken out of context.
No, that is your take on what he said.
Not once did he say it didn't happen.
At no point in the below quote did he make any declarative statement about what he said.
“And they trying to make it seem like I told them that, I made it like Freddie Gray did that to hisself (sic),” Allen said. “Why the [expletive] would he do that to hisself (sic)?”
Whether he was being deceitful at this point remains to be seen, but the manner in which he said the above is a way of being deceitful without actually lying.
And he already stated the reason he is saying this is because of fear.
“I had two options today right, either come and talk to y’all and get my credibility straight with ya’ll and not get killed by these [expletive] or not tell a true story,” Allen added. “The only reason I’m doing this is because they put my name in a bad state.”
Plus apparently it is obligatory protocol to seatbelt in a suspect in the van
An unsupported claim. The standard available online
makes exceptions for Officer safety.
Secondly, that is not a law and has no force as such.
It's about time that we start holding the police responsible for their actions and to exert some control against government force
Not by making false accusations and wrongly charging them.
Is there anyone that disputes that officers are responsible for the health and well-being of their prisoners?
Conflation. No one said they weren't, but you are conflating that with Gray being responsible for his actions which brought about his death.
If it can be shown that Mr. Gray wasn't secured (a fact that doesn't seem to be in dispute) how does the driver of the van get exonerated?
That isn't a law.
But how does he get exonerated you ask?
How much you want to bet that it will be argued the the supposed new Policy wasn't properly implemented?
This is a clear cut case of police in Baltimore suspecting someone of a crime and then arresting that person when no crime was committed.
No it really isn't.
They observed what appeared to be a drug deal and they bolted. Chase was given, he resisted and he was found in possession of a knife which was believed to be illegal.
If the Officer was wrong that puts the arrest in the category of a mistake, not an illegal arrest.
But it is definitely not known if he was mistaken or not.
It's also a case of Baltimore police violated department policy.
That remains to be seen, but it is not a criminal violation.
Apparently he checked on Gray numerous times and did not get him medical care, instead he picked up another prisoner. Sounds like depraved indifference at the very least.
Why would he get him care if he didn't need it?
Also, anyone who saw that route the van took as it turned left, right, left, right in a circle until it was right back where it started knows that something is very weird.
No it is not weird.
You get calls to pick suspects up. Then you go to central booking.
Somebody has got some explaining to do, and calling a legal pocket knife a "switchblade" on an "official" police report declaring that as probable cause is just not cutting it.
The Prosecutor may be misleading people here.
No it was not illegal by Maryland law. It may have been illegal by City Ordinance.
While it may have a folding blade it still may fit into the category of illegal by the definition of switch-blade in that statute. That remains to be seen.