cops charged

[downtownv]

All day long the media is reporting the protestors are celebrating because of the charges...... The Big set-up, due to overreach charges, no indictments. Go back to step #1 Burn Baby Burn!

[marcinstl]

The Grand Jury worked exactly as a Grand Jury is supposed to work. They heard the evidence and found that the officer did nothing wrong. Once our justice system hands down verdicts according to what rioters, looters and thugs want, we are done as a society.

in showbiz it's all about appearance and perception, without Jerk McCulloch, the county DA, stepping all over the thing, playing the big time lawyer, the charges against Officer Wilson could have gone to trial, by a jury "of his peers". would have been the same evidence and outcome, but it would have looked cleaner and more like something you'd expect in a "democracy". (depending on how much you make and where you play golf, where you shoot and if your invited to hunt, you may or may not be part of the existing "society". good luck.)

[palabman]

in showbiz it's all about appearance and perception, without Jerk McCulloch, the county DA, stepping all over the thing, playing the big time lawyer, the charges against Officer Wilson could have gone to trial, by a jury "of his peers". would have been the same evidence and outcome, but it would have looked cleaner and more like something you'd expect in a "democracy". (depending on how much you make and where you play golf, where you shoot and if your invited to hunt, you may or may not be part of the existing "society". good luck.)

So you think taxpayer money should be wasted because delusional people don't understand how the justice system works? Once again more money would have been thrown to people who do not and never will appreciate it, just for appearance.

[Longitude Zero]

To those of you who don't live in large cities, what you are witnessing in Baltimore is blacks acting as blacks are supposed to act. They're all innocent babes guilty of nothing and held down by their white suppressors. Forget the fact that the tax payers have poured 14 trillion dollars into these inner city sewers to lift them out of poverty. It's all our fault that they can't learn, find a job, marry, raise their families and obey the law. It's because all white are racists that blacks can't get ahead. If any of you actually believe this BS, I have a bridge in Cleveland that I'd like to sell you.

Yuppa.

[downtownv]

Well I think we can all agree:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6TKClPFQA

[muggsy]

I heard it was around $22 trillion now.

It's 14 trillion in federal money. It's 22 trillion if you include state and local aid dumped into this sewer.

[muggsy]

I was gonna ask how long?

Since LBJ started the war on poverty.

[muggsy]

What kind of bridge? How much???

The Lorain Carnegie bridge. A buck $2.90.

[muggsy]

I don't believe that we have a racist cop problem in this country. I believe that less than one percent of the cops harbor any ill feelings toward blacks in general. What we have here is an element of the entitlement society that thinks that it should be able to get away with anything. That's what I call the n-word mentality. And it isn't just found in the black community, but in the white and Hispanic communities as well. I believe in law and order and support my local police. Don't do the crime if you can't do the crime. If you break the law expect to be arrested and punished.

[SlowBurn]

Dershowitz: Sad Day for Justice

Could not have said it any better than Alan Dershowitz: "This is a very sad day for justice . . . Today had nothing to do with justice. Today was crowd control. Everything was motivated by a threat of riots and a desire to prevent riots,"
"It may have been the criteria in Rome, for Fidel Castro, in Iran, and in other countries, but in our country you don't base indictments on what impact it's going to have on the crowd," he said. "You base it on a hard, neutral, objective view of the evidence, and it doesn't look like that was done here . . . They have invited a mess. What they did is they bartered short-term results today for long-term problems in the future." "My prediction? They've overplayed their hand, it's unlikely they'll get any convictions in this case as a result of this, and if they do, there's a good possibility it'll be reversed on appeal and will just postpone the riots for months ahead."
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/Fr...t_nbr=xfnnadab

[knkali]

Could not have said it any better than Alan Dershowitz: "This is a very sad day for justice . . . Today had nothing to do with justice. Today was crowd control. Everything was motivated by a threat of riots and a desire to prevent riots,"
"It may have been the criteria in Rome, for Fidel Castro, in Iran, and in other countries, but in our country you don't base indictments on what impact it's going to have on the crowd," he said. "You base it on a hard, neutral, objective view of the evidence, and it doesn't look like that was done here . . . They have invited a mess. What they did is they bartered short-term results today for long-term problems in the future." "My prediction? They've overplayed their hand, it's unlikely they'll get any convictions in this case as a result of this, and if they do, there's a good possibility it'll be reversed on appeal and will just postpone the riots for months ahead."
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/Fr...t_nbr=xfnnadab

Well, Muggs said this all along.....got to give Muggs props on that....

[TheTman]

I'm wondering why they didn't follow their own police policy of seat belting Gray into his seat to keep him from flying around? If they'd done that, maybe Gray would not have been injured so severely.
I had a friend that was a prison guard at the Marine prison were he was stationed, and he used to tell about taking a bunch of prisoners that were acting up, and loading them into a van, and not strapping them down, and taking them on a "rough ride" driving the van over tank trails and the roughest dirt road/trails on the base and throwing them around the back of the van until they were pretty banged up. No one ever got killed or seriously injured, and if any of them complained it was a con's word against the guards. I believe it's a pretty well known way to provide a little punishment on the side to troublemakers. Gray certainly seemed to be a troublemaker.

[muggsy]

The driver of the van and the only one charged with murder is a black police officer. I seriously doubt that he acted in a racist manner toward one of his brothers. We still don't have all of the facts in this case, but what facts we do have don't point toward murder. Freddie the drug dealer's family will probably sue for wrongful death and the tax payers of Baltimore will probably be the losers. There will be no true justice, no peace and nothing will change.

[Longitude Zero]

Could not have said it any better than Alan Dershowitz: "This is a very sad day for justice . . . Today had nothing to do with justice. Today was crowd control. Everything was motivated by a threat of riots and a desire to prevent riots,"
"It may have been the criteria in Rome, for Fidel Castro, in Iran, and in other countries, but in our country you don't base indictments on what impact it's going to have on the crowd," he said. "You base it on a hard, neutral, objective view of the evidence, and it doesn't look like that was done here . . . They have invited a mess. What they did is they bartered short-term results today for long-term problems in the future." "My prediction? They've overplayed their hand, it's unlikely they'll get any convictions in this case as a result of this, and if they do, there's a good possibility it'll be reversed on appeal and will just postpone the riots for months ahead."
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/Fr...t_nbr=xfnnadab

Standard boilerplate liberalism at work in what was done. Dershowitz is spot on.

[TheTman]

Muggs, blacks can be hateful against their own color. Look at the Crips and Hoods. They'll kill each other all day long. Look at the black on black crime in Chicago. A conservative black in a blue uniform might even be harder on a brother than a white cop, because they ain't buying the thugs bullcrap excuses.