Black suspect dies after Baltimore cops break his spine in ‘brutal’ police beating:

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/black-suspect-dies-after-baltimore-cops-break-his-spine-in-brutal-police-beating/

a man injured after being arrested by the Baltimore police died today, according to the Baltimore Sun.

Freddie Gray had to undergo a double surgery on three broken vertebrae and an injured voice box on Tuesday, after he was released by the police. He died today after days of remaining in a coma.

The 27-year old was arrested last week for an undisclosed violation. The police said that he was restrained on the ground by an officer during the arrest, but appeared to be fine when he was taken to the district station. However, a cell phone video shows that the arresting officers used force that some may seen as “brutal.”

Protests have broken out in his neighborhood since Gray was sent to the hospital.

“What happened to Freddie was unnecessary and uncalled for,” the Rev. Jamal Harrison Bryant of the Empowerment Temple said to protestors on Saturday. “All of those police officers involved need to be held accountable and answer for what they did, and need to be terminated from their positions,” he urged.

The case is pending a review by a “blue-ribbon” panel commissioned by the police.

article from Baltimore Sun http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-freddie-gray-20150419-story.html#page=1

This forum needs to be renamed the 'whites are racist...No, blacks are'.

***** are ***** regardless of colour or status.

I think we should pull the police out of black neighborhoods, put them in white neighborhoods. That will stop the violence.

Originally posted by jaden101
This forum needs to be renamed the 'whites are racist...No, blacks are'.

***** are ***** regardless of colour or status.

We're all guilty of being prejudice against others, whether the degree is intangible or blatant. It seems to be a human trait to be clannish.

The U.S. Department of Justice is conducting a separate review of complaints about Baltimore's Police Department at Batts' request. That request followed a Baltimore Sun investigation that found taxpayers had paid nearly $6 million since 2011 to settle more than 100 lawsuits alleging police brutality and other misconduct.

As if we're not taxed enough already. The case above is an extreme example, but police all over the world have their bad eggs. We simply can't have the police policing themselves, because when they're exonerated, by themselves of course, it sends the message to others that they are above the law, which is nonsense.

I live for the best part of each year in the UK... Little story to emphasize the point. My cousin, some time ago was out with her husband in their car. White, well heeled, He's in banking, and she's a Teacher. They also had their two children in the car, both under ten at the time.

They were driving on a city ring road when all of a sudden a car shot out of a side road in front of them almost causing my cousin's husband to swerve. There were two men in the car, and both appeared to be pulling on their clothes. My cousin's husband flashed his lights to let them know that what they'd done was dangerous and illegal.

They were astonished when the guys in the unmarked car in front (the offending car) pulled them over. They were cops. They were totally in the wrong, yet they threatened my cousin and her husband with all sorts of repercussions for flashing their lights in mild irritation.

Those cops could have killed my cousin, her husband and their children, or caused a serious accident to them and others on that ring road, driving like maniacs as they were; yet they felt that they had the right to act superior and sanctimoniously, and threaten them.

Absolutely pissed with power...

In 4 years only about 100 people sued the state, "cause the cops were rough with me."

Also your story seems a little odd, was it a marked police cruiser that was the one that pulled them over? If so the police cruiser has the right of way, assuming there isn't a light there or some other reason that your cousin would be in the right.

But either way most places are making the billion dollar (per city) jump to body cameras. I personally like the idea but being indignant on the current cost on tax payers while supporting this is a little short sighted, no?

Originally posted by Henry_Pym
I think we should pull the police out of black neighborhoods, put them in white neighborhoods. That will stop the violence.

This is an interesting idea. Maybe it would stop all this.

Not being there it's hard to know what happened. It could have been a running battle with a drug dealer or bad azz in town and some cop just got fed up with it and went PTSD on the perp. Not saying that is right, but cops are people too and they can easily snap. Baltimore one of the worst black on black crime areas in the country per capita. Not being the fly on the wall it's difficult what set the dynamics in place to start the situation and what happened after initial contact.

Maryland Governor just called a state of emergency after riots broke out in Baltimore over Gray's death.

I was perplexed in my school days as to what all the riots in the 60's were about. Now seeing it in the last year, I can honestly see this is a going to be a problem for years to come. I wish I am wrong about this, but get the feeling I am not.

Bloods and Crips are teaming up to wage war on the police.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Bloods and Crips are teaming up to wage war on the police.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Bloods and Crips are teaming up to wage war on the police.

Still a better team than Congress. 👆

Looks like the city got burned down last night.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/28/us/baltimore-riots/index.html

Already made a thread about this

Request a merge

Originally posted by Lestov16
Already made a thread about this

Oh my bad, Where?

I hate the trash who loot, burn, and riot over this stuff. Honestly, I find more "honor" in burning your city because your favorite team lost. Only because at least you aren't taking advantage of a dead kid in order to burn shit in his name. I'd rather people do it in the name of a crappy sports team. I find rioting for any reason distasteful, but damn..you hear a kid is dead and go "time for some new clothes plus hey fire!" and you are a special piece of trash.

I feel bad for all the businesses of innocent people ruined. Honestly, if I owned one of these places I'd be sitting out front with a damn shotgun. I'd love to see a looter try to loot my stuff or burn my store(if I had one). Some might say that is overkill, but nah, these stores are these peoples livelihoods. If some little wannabe thug wants to come try to loot or burn it..a person should have the right to respond with deadly force.

Originally posted by Time Immemorial
Oh my bad, Where?

Technically the topic seems to be about a specific person killed during the riot by cops, not specifically an all around "Baltimore Riot" topic that I can see. So I dunno, a merger might not be necessary. Or if they do merge, make sure you keep the title of this topic, so people know it's for all around discussion of the riots.

Okay so Obama came out and said we should treat these people as criminals. *Shakes head*. Christ almighty, why does our president feel the need to tell us to treat criminals like criminals? It's not like rioting, looting, and burning was legal until now.

I can picture if he was president during 9/11: "Treat the people who crashed these planes as terrorists".

Originally posted by Surtur

Technically the topic seems to be about a specific person killed during the riot by cops, not specifically an all around "Baltimore Riot" topic that I can see. So I dunno, a merger might not be necessary. Or if they do merge, make sure you keep the title of this topic, so people know it's for all around discussion of the riots.

What? My thread is about the death of Freddie Gray, the cause of these riots to begin with. Would seem odd to have a thread about the riots and not the brutal death that incited it.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Bloods and Crips are teaming up to wage war on the police.

http://m.wbaltv.com/news/gang-members-we-did-not-make-truce-to-harm-cops/32609810