The death of Freddie Grey was more than tragic. It wasn't that he was difficult to deal with and a victim of his own actions. He was neglected and victimized by the Baltimore Police Department.
There has to be a retrial.
This is just a set back. This death cannot be regarded as a minor issue. He was killed in that van because of police negligence. It is a serious issue.
I want to know what the jurors have to say. This is more than a mistrial, it is a carriage of misjudgement.
We know for a fact the police officers killed this man. Now, there is suppose to be something that is going to end a person's life without guilt in doing so? The justice of Freddie Gray has yet to be realized.
Criminal negligence does not have to be premeditated.
Under some criminal law statutes, criminal negligence is defined as any type of conduct that “grossly deviates” from normal, reasonable standards of an ordinary person. It generally involves an indifference or disregard for human life or for the safety of people.
The defense is trying to make this into a case of corruption within the Baltimore Police Department. Somehow the death of a man is understood to be okay within the police department.
December 16, 2015
...What the trial revealed with great clarity, though, were the failings of the Baltimore City Police Department. We're not sure whose depiction of it was worse: the prosecution's account of police who express a callous indifference to the lives of those they arrest and then lie to cover for each other, or the defense's picture of a department so rife with incompetence that their client's failures were entirely unexceptional.
Prosecutors didn't just accuse Mr. Porter of lying or engaging in a cover-up. They suggested that the department has a "stop snitching" code for its officers just as repulsive as the one on the streets. And the defense attorneys didn't just portray Mr. Porter as an inexperienced cop who was following the lead of experienced officers. They drew a picture of a department where training is cursory and where standards of conduct are routinely ignored — if officers even bother to read them in the first place....
The accusations came from both sides. Is it another Ferguson?
This trial is not about violence and riots. There is NOTHING here the African American community needed to learn. Quite the contrary, they needed justice and they didn't get it.
Thinking Baltimore needed a lesson is racist. FOX isn't saying the white guys needed to learn a lesson, they are saying the African American community needed to learn a lesson.
There has to be a retrial.
This is just a set back. This death cannot be regarded as a minor issue. He was killed in that van because of police negligence. It is a serious issue.
I want to know what the jurors have to say. This is more than a mistrial, it is a carriage of misjudgement.
We know for a fact the police officers killed this man. Now, there is suppose to be something that is going to end a person's life without guilt in doing so? The justice of Freddie Gray has yet to be realized.
Criminal negligence does not have to be premeditated.
Under some criminal law statutes, criminal negligence is defined as any type of conduct that “grossly deviates” from normal, reasonable standards of an ordinary person. It generally involves an indifference or disregard for human life or for the safety of people.
The defense is trying to make this into a case of corruption within the Baltimore Police Department. Somehow the death of a man is understood to be okay within the police department.
December 16, 2015
...What the trial revealed with great clarity, though, were the failings of the Baltimore City Police Department. We're not sure whose depiction of it was worse: the prosecution's account of police who express a callous indifference to the lives of those they arrest and then lie to cover for each other, or the defense's picture of a department so rife with incompetence that their client's failures were entirely unexceptional.
Prosecutors didn't just accuse Mr. Porter of lying or engaging in a cover-up. They suggested that the department has a "stop snitching" code for its officers just as repulsive as the one on the streets. And the defense attorneys didn't just portray Mr. Porter as an inexperienced cop who was following the lead of experienced officers. They drew a picture of a department where training is cursory and where standards of conduct are routinely ignored — if officers even bother to read them in the first place....
The accusations came from both sides. Is it another Ferguson?
This trial is not about violence and riots. There is NOTHING here the African American community needed to learn. Quite the contrary, they needed justice and they didn't get it.
Thinking Baltimore needed a lesson is racist. FOX isn't saying the white guys needed to learn a lesson, they are saying the African American community needed to learn a lesson.
