In the Bay Area, several media outlets have taken spots outside MacArthur BART in anticipation of May Day protests and disruptions throughout the city and across the bay in San Francisco.
Friday's announcement in Baltimore may have altered coverage. We'll soon find out throughout the day.
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The dirty cops were leaking out information (as usual) to prop up their version of events. The ludicrous idea that the suspect who committed the "crime" of making eye contact decided to break his own neck is ridiculous. Give the dirty cops credit. They do have great imagination!
ReplyDeleteBlah Blah Blah, none of the Cops will be convicted of the charges as they stand now. Do I think there was negligence, yes I do and they should be accountable for that.
Delete@10:47 tough to take seriously the opinion of a moron who starts his sentence with: "blah blah blah"
DeleteThere was a prisoner in another part of the van (also black) who said he didn't see the police doing anything. He did, however, hear the other prisoner banging his head against the side of the metal barricade, possibly high on something. This other prisoner has had death threats since his eyewitness account goes against the party line.
ReplyDeleteSorry to burst your bubble but the man has been misquoted by the Washington Times and the police. He gave an interview in the last few hours which said he heard very small banging noises and he did not hear any yelling etc. once again the cops get caught lying...SHOCKING! Btw the young man who caught video of the incident has been suddenly arrested. Interesting.
DeleteYou fell for that? How about the rumor started by the police that all the gangs contacted each other, called a truce and instead are conspiring to shoot cops? Believe that one too?
DeleteThis was an interview by WJZ, the CBS affiliate in Baltimore.
Delete"Btw the young man who caught video of the incident has been suddenly arrested. "
DeleteWhy was he arrested? Was he doing something illegal? Or do you have bubble that needs bursting, too?
Also, it was the Washington Post, not the Washington Times.
DeleteI bet the young man who took the video was arrested in order to be harassed. Same thing happened to the young man who took video of the Eric Gardner choking. Dirty cops up to dirty tricks. Nothing new here.
DeleteToo funny, the "Vulture Press" waiting to incite the crowd with their presence.
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ReplyDeleteHe's since recanted, but don't let the facts spoil your narrative. The cops lied about the number of stops between the arrest and arrival at the police station. Only busted by surveillance video.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/baltimore-man-detained-with-freddie-gray-police-are-using-me-to-cover-their-ass/ Also the cops lied about the number of stops, and were only busted by
I support the police.
ReplyDeleteI do not support multiple offenders who run from cops. I do not support thugs who vandalize and intimidate in the false name of "justice" I do not support media that encourages thuggery or false victimhood. I do not support individuals who buy into or propagate the myth that cops in general are bad, and that thugs are victims of oppression, society, or "racism" (where are the protests against the black gangs that go after brown folks, or white folks?).
You support the police who commit murder while wearing a badge? Last time I looked, child support non payment, drug offences and the like are not capital offenses. These thugs with uniforms do nothing for the good cops who protect and serve - not sever, as in spinal columns.
DeleteI get it, the victim and rioters are black.
DeleteThanks for proving my point, 11:48 and 12:00. You propagate hate though you'd say you're against it. Where did I say I support rogue cops? Yet, as noted, "cops in general" are bad to you, so you kneejerk responded against my statement of support for police in general.
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ReplyDeleteYou're a mighty fine whistler, dag nabbit!
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ReplyDeleteAfter getting royally pissed off by reading your post, I am now cranking "F*ck Da Police" by N.W.A.
I support the variety of reasons people are demonstrating. I do not want what looks like a large peaceful demonstration to be overshadowed by assholes breaking windows, spray painting and assaulting people.
ReplyDeleteFor the record, the overwhelming majority of protesters in Oakland are white. Chief Whent stated, and confirms what I've observed, that the people engaging in violence are white, the looters tend to be black. It's white people breaking windows and setting fires in dumpsters and to cars. The people who have been assaulted during demonstrations were assaulted by white people.
For the record, I never said I gave a shit what color the protesters I disagree with are. I think anyone, no matter what color or social class or origin, who blocks traffic, vandalizes property, or assaults officers, deserves to be cut off from society or imprisoned.
DeleteI blame The Three Amigos, Obama, Holder and Sharpton for all the race hate they have encouraged these last seven years. I also blame that stupid Mayor in Baltimore for telling her policemen to 'Stand Down' and let the hoodlums burn this city. To quote her "we gave them a safe space to destroy things. Let them loot! It's only property" How many ways can you spell DUMB?
ReplyDeleteI say double the sentences for pigs who break the law and send them all out to Pelican Bay to serve said sentences. Do this a few times and I bet we will begin to see corrective action. One other thing. Once the old angry white male types from the generation of Michael Savage pass on we will begin to see racial harmony. Whiteys who long for the "good ol' days" of the 1950s need to just die off.
ReplyDeleteNice racial tolerance there, 2:45.
Delete@2:45 is spot on. Those angry white dudes show more indignation about property damage than the death of innocent people of color. They're the ones who call for the "rule of law" except when it comes to the behavior of devious pigs.
DeleteGee, anon at 4:32,did you automatically assume , as did many, that the Baltimore cops in this case were all white? Does the fact, now revealed, that half of them were African American change anything? Do you think if will be easier or more difficult for the feds to find civil rights violations and racial animus? None of us knows what happened precisely, at all. The cop tagged with murder 2 is African American. If he's proven guilty, would that be black on black crime?
Deleteanon at 2:45...Send them to Pelican Bay? surely you jest. The Baltimore incident took place in Maryland. Pelican Bay is part of the California prison system.
DeleteGood luck in court because the case is weak. This is America, you have to prove "Intent"
ReplyDeleteLying about the number of stops and only being busted by surveillance video implies a cover-up.
DeleteThere's some intent to falsify the assault which led to dead Freddie Grey.
That prosecutor is pretty smart. First of all, she couldn't possibly have had time to wade through mounds of data to structure much of any kind of case. She just filed charges in order to placate the pavement animals, and look what she did: She turned a time of rioting into a time of celebration! She's pretty smart. Now the hard work begins of actually LOOKING at the evidence and dropping some charges and maybe adding some others, but intent might prove to be difficult. The cops here are probably scapegoats, and she knows it, but she has calmed everyone down for now and letting things cool off some.
ReplyDeleteGet ready for more "Burning and looting" because there's no way based on the "Charges" a conviction will occur.
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