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Would you live in that neighborhood? There's one thing to have compassion - it's another to believe every sob story the left writes. The businesses they burned may have provided them jobs - the churches they burned provided not only religious teachings and support but youth groups and community services. Forget the good jobs and salaries - Obama already took that away from them with all his illegal immigrant legislation. Will you people please think before you post - because you make my party look as stupid as Republicans think it is.
Please. You say sob story, I say understanding the circumstances under which things happen. Things don't happen in a vacuum.
Oh, yes! Let's support our police for executing people who have lengthy arrest records. Those with more than 12 arrests on their plate should have their spines severed. Those with less than 12 should have between five and ten digits chopped off. The number of digits removed will be at the cops discretion.
To be serious, we don't know what happened to Freddie Gray. I want to though. We should all want to know. I'm waiting for the official report. If it turns out the police didn't something criminal to him in the back of that paddy wagon, they should be arrested and sent to trial.
All of us should be horrified to see due process violated, regardless of the guilt or innocence of the person in custody.
I wouldn't go so far as to be horrified, but in a nation of 300 million FREE people, laws are laws....when they are broken, the violators should be dealt with by our court system.
This is not thread of "hate" or "discrimination" but this thread is about people who still have common sense, these people will understand that these protests is only to earn money and to loot and murder!
As Baltimore’s destructive #BlackLivesMatter riots continue to rage, some new information has been revealed about the gentleman they’re burning Baltimore down for.
According to the Maryland Department of Justice, Freddie Gray had the 18 documented arrests below, at a minimum: FREDDY GRAY
And you still think that man with at least 18 arrests and serious traumas who were running from police instead of sitting at home was not guilty?
So? He's afforded Constitutional rights, along with a few other rights. It doesn't matter if he has a record or not. That's totally irrelevant.
No, it's not a reason to kill the man, of course. Only an idiot would say that. Some of the resentment you're hearing from people here is a result of the fact that the "media" doesn't report the whole story. They like to ignore or minimize facts that are inconvenient and don't fit into their journalistic agenda.
Absolutely no one deserves to be killed, even if a person has a lengthy criminal record. (The courts hand out punishments, not the cops.) However, if you enter the criminal lifestyle, you most certainly open yourself up to the chance that something will go horribly wrong, and certainly at the hands of a bad cop.
The reporting in the Ferguson, Missouri case was utterly abominable. Media outlets reported conjecture as fact. They had no facts; only "eye witness" accounts that a first-year journalistic student would know were suspect.
We keep hearing about the "national conversation on race" we're supposed to have. I think it's a great idea, but such a conversation wouldn't include a rule that you can't say what you and a lot of other people are thinking.
All of us should be horrified to see due process violated, regardless of the guilt or innocence of the person in custody.
Well this just hit the news, from the Washington Post. Does this change anything? Maybe waiting until evidence is released before we convict cops or anyone else?
A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he could hear Gray “banging against the walls” of the vehicle and believed that he “was intentionally trying to injure himself,” according to a police document obtained by The Washington Post.
Well this just hit the news, from the Washington Post. Does this change anything? Maybe waiting until evidence is released before we convict cops or anyone else?
A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he could hear Gray “banging against the walls” of the vehicle and believed that he “was intentionally trying to injure himself,” according to a police document obtained by The Washington Post.
If it wasn't for the stupid war on drugs, he wouldn't even have a record. He sounds like a guy who had never hurt a person in his life.
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While I believe we have become a nation who blames the victim, just more smut to muddy the waters of police brutality, why does he wind up dead?
Sure, his arrests would matter when he is in front of the judge. Seems to me his due process wasn't met since he never got in front of a judge.
Since his spine was 80% severed, his larynx crushed, doesn't police brutality mean a darn thing?
I have posted an article that Freddie Gray did not have neck surgery and he had a right to ride his bike without being profiled.
What did he do to be stopped in the first place. His attorney has stated, this knife he had on him was legal.
Oh please give me a break. If drugs are legalized you think crime will drop? You think black crime will drop? It will be the exact opposite. Why? Because you will be essentially destroying the black market economy that minority's rely on to survive. Bear in mind I am not in support of a black market. But to all those who say making all drugs legal is the be end, end all solution to black crime and alleged police brutality you are all sadly mistaken.
Well this just hit the news, from the Washington Post. Does this change anything? Maybe waiting until evidence is released before we convict cops or anyone else?
A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he could hear Gray “banging against the walls” of the vehicle and believed that he “was intentionally trying to injure himself,” according to a police document obtained by The Washington Post.
Wow, I hope whoever made that post finds some peace in his/her life. Typing like that, they can't be a happy person.
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