There is no other word for the exoneration of the police in regard to Freddie Gray, but, corruption. There continues to be deaths when people are imprisoned by police.
Ordinary care is the care that an average reasonable man exercises to prevent harm to the person or property of others and failure to exercise which when under a duty to do so constitutes actionable negligence on the part of one causing such harm.
All the people that die while in custody of the police are innocent people. They have never been proven to be guilty, that is especially true of Sandra Bland. Something needs to be done. There has to be a government study of the problem.
The lawsuits of negligent homicide are not a deterrent to the practices that place people at risk while in custody. The governments simply settle the lawsuits because they know there is no basis for defeating these cases. Deterrents don't work, there needs to be a legitimate protection for people in custody.
There is something very wrong here.
July 27, 2016
By Kevin Rector
Prosecutors dropped all remaining charges (click here) against three Baltimore police officers accused in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray in a downtown courtroom on Wednesday morning, concluding one of the most high-profile criminal cases in Baltimore history.
The startling move was an apparent acknowledgement of the unlikelihood of a conviction following the acquittals of three other officers on similar and more serious charges by Circuit Judge Barry G. Williams, who was expected to preside over the remaining trials as well.
It also means the office of Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby will secure no convictions in the case after more than a year of dogged fighting, against increasingly heavy odds, to hold someone criminally accountable in Gray's death.
Officer William Porter's trial ended with a hung jury and a mistrial in December, before Williams acquitted Officers Edward Nero and Caesar Goodson and Lt. Brian Rice at bench trials in May, June, and July, respectively....
Ordinary care is the care that an average reasonable man exercises to prevent harm to the person or property of others and failure to exercise which when under a duty to do so constitutes actionable negligence on the part of one causing such harm.
All the people that die while in custody of the police are innocent people. They have never been proven to be guilty, that is especially true of Sandra Bland. Something needs to be done. There has to be a government study of the problem.
The lawsuits of negligent homicide are not a deterrent to the practices that place people at risk while in custody. The governments simply settle the lawsuits because they know there is no basis for defeating these cases. Deterrents don't work, there needs to be a legitimate protection for people in custody.
There is something very wrong here.
July 27, 2016
By Kevin Rector
Prosecutors dropped all remaining charges (click here) against three Baltimore police officers accused in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray in a downtown courtroom on Wednesday morning, concluding one of the most high-profile criminal cases in Baltimore history.
The startling move was an apparent acknowledgement of the unlikelihood of a conviction following the acquittals of three other officers on similar and more serious charges by Circuit Judge Barry G. Williams, who was expected to preside over the remaining trials as well.
Officer William Porter's trial ended with a hung jury and a mistrial in December, before Williams acquitted Officers Edward Nero and Caesar Goodson and Lt. Brian Rice at bench trials in May, June, and July, respectively....
