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Old 05-02-2015, 09:29 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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If you break the law you will dislike the police. If you are law abiding you have no problem with their authority. This goes for all races.

The thugs don't like the police . The job of the police is to look for the lawless and defend the rights of the community who are law abiding.

Problem here lies with the people who across the board dislike the police because they do their jobs. If you are a drug dealer you will have a run in with police .

There has to be understanding of the situation in which the lawbreakers put themselves in when they break the law. The police have a fine line to contend with when the public is shouting police brutality and they have to confront criminal behavior.

This could become a curse on the backs of the police to keep order in our society . The police could easily look the other way and crime becomes rampant.
I am a law abiding citizen and I have a problem with police brutality. Police are not above the law and must conduct themselves within the scope of their job policy and the law.
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Old 05-02-2015, 09:30 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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I don't see why race even matters...
Race sells newspapers.

The End.
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Old 05-02-2015, 09:31 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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If you break the law you will dislike the police. If you are law abiding you have no problem with their authority. This goes for all races.

The thugs don't like the police . The job of the police is to look for the lawless and defend the rights of the community who are law abiding.

Problem here lies with the people who across the board dislike the police because they do their jobs. If you are a drug dealer you will have a run in with police .

There has to be understanding of the situation in which the lawbreakers put themselves in when they break the law. The police have a fine line to contend with when the public is shouting police brutality and they have to confront criminal behavior.

This could become a curse on the backs of the police to keep order in our society . The police could easily look the other way and crime becomes rampant.
Is there any excuse for this?

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A Baltimore Circuit Court jury awarded a 55-year-old man $44 million yesterday in a police brutality case in which a police officer was accused of throwing the man headfirst into the concrete wall of a holding cell and rendering him a quadriplegic.
$44 million given for brutality - tribunedigital-baltimoresun
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Old 05-02-2015, 09:33 AM
 
Location: Florida
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I am a law abiding citizen and I have a problem with police brutality. Police are not above the law and must conduct themselves within the scope of their job policy and the law.
True..I don't disagree. Let's find the facts first , innocent until proven guilty.
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Old 05-02-2015, 09:33 AM
 
Location: Baltimore
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If you break the law you will dislike the police. If you are law abiding you have no problem with their authority. This goes for all races.
Not true.

Undue force - Sun Investigates - The Baltimore Sun
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Old 05-02-2015, 09:33 AM
 
Location: Just over the horizon
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Res ipsa loquitur (Latin for "the thing speaks for itself") is a doctrine in tort law that infers negligence from the very nature of an accident or injury, in the absence of direct evidence on how any defendant behaved.

Police themselves have said that Freddie was running, they ran after him, took him down and into custody after which Freddie had three fractured vertebrae in his neck, severed spinal cord, and a crushed larynx.


Whether or not the manner in which he was taken down and restrained caused his death may eventually be proven in court, but as of now is nothing but conjecture.

Or does innocent until proven guilty not apply when police are accused?
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Old 05-02-2015, 09:36 AM
 
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It's sad how the media constantly attacks the police, but then stands behind them when the rioters get going.
I assume you mean physically stands behind them, not in a supportive sense. In that case I agree!
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Old 05-02-2015, 09:36 AM
 
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People shouldn't assume but even some of the protesters thought this was about racism.



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I'd take those protesters a lot MORE seriously IF there wasn't the out of control Black on Black murders going on in 2015. Till then; a hood rat gets dropped, so what? I'd feel the SAME way if a bunch of Black cops dropped a known white supremacist meth head.
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Old 05-02-2015, 09:39 AM
 
Location: Whoville....
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Evidence and trial be damned eh? Not guilty until proven innocent like the low lifes they deal with on a daily basis?
It is up to the courts to decide this one. It's unfortunate that names were released because this places all of their families in jeopardy. Guilty or innocent there are those who have already decided they are guilty WITHOUT benefit of a trial. I don't know who did what so I can't say who's guilty or who is innocent. I have to leave this one up to those who have the information to make the decision.
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Old 05-02-2015, 09:41 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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True..I don't disagree. Let's find the facts first , innocent until proven guilty.
Freddie could have benefited by his right to due process also.
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