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On The Kiling of Freddie Gray
Amazing how so many just don’t get it. Freddie Gray would be alive right now and none of this would be happening in the first place if the Baltimore police had done their jobs properly. This is not the slave era where black people are chased and put to death for making eye contact with whites. Nor is it illegal to run away from a deranged cop’s presence. And even if the running was deemed suspicious, once the capture ONLY resulted in turning up a PERFECTLY LEGAL pocket knife, the cops should have put their ENORMOUS egos, bravados, and prejudices aside and RELEASED THEIR VICTIM. You don’t get to cuff him and kill him and “have a nice (white) day” at the expense of someone’s LIFE.
“Thugs” with badges started this nasty ball rolling when they ILLEGALLY arrested Freddie Gray. If he had NOT been placed in their unlawful custody, he would be alive today. Looting/destroyng property are ONE thing. KILLING someone is quite another. Shoudn’t we all consider ourselves lucky that Batimore’s riotous “thugs” know that difference and OBVIOUSLY have more self-control than those KILLER COPS.
What are these accused Baltimore cops going to do?…prove that Gray’s perfectly legal pocket knife was actually illegal? Prove that they DID strap him into the department’s Monthly Arrest-Quota Transportation Wagon safely? Prove that they DID make several attempts to seek medical attention for Gray? Prove that the Medical Examiner’s finding of HOMICIDE is in error? Prove that Freddie Gray is alive and well and NOT DEAD after all? What do they have to refute the facts as they were laid out in States Attorney Mosby’s Statement of Charges?
And what the HELL is up with that vehicle being referred to as a “wagon”, anyway? Surely a relic term from America’s racist policing origins. The force was originally created to patrol and capture run away slaves, and wagons were the convenient transport of that day. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
@VeePeachey