“3 of 6 officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death are black”
But don’t let it be a black and a white one
‘Cause they’ll slam ya down to the street top
Black police showing out for the white cop
– Ice Cube
It is kind of well-known on the street that black cops are far more violent against blacks than white cops.
In this situations, there is so much misinformation, media manipulation, and political posturing, the reality is probably far different than the narrative that is being pushed. That will come out in court… where the ridiculous inflated charges against the cops will never stick.
This whole incident has a good side, though.
With the racial angle evaporating, it might bring attention to current police attitudes and tactics… which is likely something ALL Americans should be demonstrating against.
…though this Freddie Gray case seems to be yet another poor example to use when promoting “racist white cops” or “police brutality” narratives.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Bernie Sanders for President 2016
Sanders: We’re Living in a ‘Very Ugly Moment in American History’ Because Of Income Inequality http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024731974
“We have right now in real terms almost 13 percent of our people are unemployed. We have not extended unemployment benefits, long-term unemployment benefits. So you have folks out there now who have virtually no income coming in. They have families. They have kids. How are they going to eat? We have veterans out there who are trying to get into the food stamp program,” Sanders said.
“So to me what you’re looking at is an ugly kind of class warfare where the people on top want more and more and more. And they’re pushing down in an incredibly terrible way the most vulnerable people in our country.”
“Tax breaks to billionaires and cuts to nutrition programs for kids. If a kid does not have enough food to eat, how is that child going to do well in school? He or she is not going do well in school,” he continued.
“So you’re attacking the most vulnerable people in this country. There is a rise in poverty among senior citizens, elderly people. They don’t have enough to eat. What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can’t take care of the elderly and the children?”
Watch his entire address as well as the Q&A session moderated by Senior Fellow E.J. Dionne, Jr., the W. Averell Harriman Chair.
Sen. Sanders described many of the challenges that the middle class face, including lower wages, increased poverty, high unemployment (11.3 percent real unemployment, he said, when you include people working part time who want to work full time), high child poverty, and continued high rates of uninsured (despite the Affordable Care Act). From Occupy Wall Street to the Tea Party, Sen. Sanders acknowledged “a lot of angry people out there” who “have every right to be angry.”
He called particular attention to the growing wealth gap in America, and how this plays out in politics. “As a result of disastrous Supreme Court decision, the 5-4 decision on Citizens United,” he said:
Setnaffa
9 years ago
Tbone is right. Old white guys are the only ones who can restore the black community.
Wait. What?
Who runs Baltimore, Chicago, New York, St Louis, Houston, and New Orleans again?
I’m confused as to how Bernie can do anything except inspire Weekend jokes.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Conrad Black
What happened to the rights of the accused in America? http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-happened-to-the-rights-of-the-accused/2015/04/30/8b4cf4ca-ef74-11e4-8abc-d6aa3bad79dd_story.html
Reading about the short, troubled life of Freddie Gray — who suffered lead poisoning as a child, was arrested for drug offenses more than a dozen times and died in police custody nearly two weeks ago in Baltimore — I recalled a description of the world of young men, mostly black, trapped in the American criminal justice system. It was written by an archconservative who was at the time a prisoner in a Florida jail.
“Many are victims of legal and social injustice, inadequately provided for by the public assistance system, and over-prosecuted and vengefully sentenced,” he wrote. “The failures of American education, social services and justice [are] unaffordable, as well as repulsive. In tens of millions of undervalued human lives . . . the United States pays a heavy price for an ethos afflicted by wantonness, waste and official human indifference.”
It is well known that, with nearly 5 percent of the world’s population, the United States has close to 25 percent of the world’s prisoners and, Black adds, 50 percent of its lawyers.
Prosecutors win 95 percent of their cases, 90 percent of them without ever having to go to trial, says Black, noting that the overall conviction rate is 60 percent in Canada and about 50 percent in Britain. Are American prosecutors that much better? No, Black insists, it is because of the plea bargain, a system of bullying and intimidation by government lawyers for which they “would be disbarred in most other serious countries, [and which] enables prosecutors to threaten everyone around the target with indictment if they don’t miraculously recall, under careful government coaching, inculpatory evidence.”
In an essay in the New York Review of Books, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff wrote that because of the plea bargain, “the criminal justice system in the United States today bears little relationship to what the Founding Fathers contemplated, what the movies and television portray, or what the average American believes.” There is, more often than not, no “day in court,” no trial, no rights for the accused. The prosecutor almost always gets what he wants.
Black also writes that American prisons are dedicated to punishment with a “primal vindictiveness,” which also ensures that inmates once released are utterly unfit for reintegration into society — virtually guaranteeing that they return to prison. European countries such as Norway, where the emphasis is almost the opposite — entirely focused on redemption and reintegration — have dramatically lower rates of recidivism.
The crime wave of the 1970s scared the United States. And when scared, Americans often overreact and enact bad legislation. What followed was a spate of laws relating to drugs and crime that have given police and prosecutors far too much power and the accused too few protections and too little dignity. The zeal to lock people up has spawned a vast “prison-industrial complex” that lobbies aggressively for its own special interests — which, of course, means more prisoners and, thus, prisons.
The Anglo-American system of law was historically defined by its focus on the rights of the accused, not the powers of the prosecutor. That was how it differed from those in most of the rest of the world. In describing that system, the great English jurist William Blackstone said, “Better that 10 guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” We have strayed very far from that core conviction in the United States today.”
Hey now! Some prosecutors don’t really want to prosecute and actually defend the suspect(cop) i.e. Michael Brown killer cop murder case that didn’t ever become a case.
It’s not just Ferguson, Missouri — here’s how the system protects police. http://www.thenation.com/article/190937/why-its-impossible-indict-cop
“How to police the police is a question as old as civilization, now given special urgency by a St. Louis County grand jury’s return of a “no bill” of indictment for Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson in his fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager, Michael Brown. The result is shocking to many, depressingly predictable to more than a few.
Can the cops be controlled? It’s never been easy: according to one old sociological chestnut, the monopoly on the legitimate use of violence is what defines modern government, and this monopoly is jealously protected against the second-guessing of puny civilians. All over the country, the issue of restraining police power is framed around the retribution against individual cops, from Staten Island to Milwaukee to Los Angeles. But is this the best way to impose discipline on law enforcement and roll back what even Republican appellate court appointees arecalling rampant criminalization?
Police shootings in America
First, the big picture. Last year, the FBI tallied 461 “justifiable homicides” committed by law enforcement—justifiable because the Bureau assumes so, and the nation’s courts have not found otherwise. This is the highest number in two decades, even as the nation’s overall homicide rate continues to drop. Homicides committed by on-duty law enforcement make up 3 percent of the 14,196 homicides committed in the United States in 2013. A USA Today analysisof the FBI database found an average of about ninety-six police homicides a year in which a white officer kills a black person.
The FBI’s police homicide stats are fuzzy, and they are surely an undercount, given that they come from voluntary reports to the FBI from police departments all over the country. That the federal government does not keep a strict national tally shows just how seriously it takes this problem. A crowdsourced database has sprung up to fill the gap, as has a wiki-tabulation.
Perhaps the most disturbing thing about these police killings, many of them of unarmed victims, is that our courts find them perfectly legal.”
tbonetylr
9 years ago
“Weekend jokes”
I’m waiting you(and your ilk) humorless B*ST*RD(s)!
ACLU’s legal director Mark Silverstein watched our hidden camera video. He said race-based discrimination policies are against the law. Silverstein said, “There are local ordinances, there are statutes and there are even federal laws that forbid this kind of discrimination based on race.”
We wanted to talk to Andrea, the manager who made the racist statements, but when she saw us coming she turned the other way.
Denver’s Heidi Hemmat asked, “Andrea, we just want to ask you why you don’t go to Montbello … we just want to know why you call it Mount Ghetto?” Andrea said, “Speak with the owner.”
The company is owned by 21-year-old Kasey Dykman and his 48-year-old father Kevin Dykman.
The older Dykman’s arrest record includes convictions for theft and DUI.
The neighborhood just north of Interstate 70 is home to about 31,000 people. The community is mostly Hispanic residents and the average household income is $45,000, just $2,000 less than Denver’s average household income of $47,000.
If you live in Montbello and were denied service by Mile High Heating and Cooling in Westminster, you can file a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division.”
Denny
9 years ago
‘Draw Muhammad’ Contest Shooting: Two Suspects Dead, Guard Shot in Texas
A patrol car blocked the entrance, part of $10,000 in extra security paid for by organizers of the event, said Harn, the Garland Police Department spokesman. The American Freedom Defense Initiative said it had spent more than $30,000 on security.
Thirty thousand dollars for security, which included a standby SWAT team, for an event attended by 200 people? Well, at least the bait worked.
Korean “jeong(friendship)” at its finest. Koreans always told me that I couldn’t ever possibly understand Korean jeong because it’s special to only Koreans. But, now I understand Korean jeong… http://www.theonion.com/article/guy-who-died-playing-league-legends-internet-cafe–50335
“SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA—Admitting he was having difficulty concentrating on destroying his enemy’s nexus as he sat inside PC Zone internet café Monday, League Of Legends: Dominion player JuHo Lee complained that the guy who died at the adjacent computer station was really starting to ruin the game for him. “I knew this was going to happen when he started losing consciousness and slumped forward on his keyboard, and I probably should’ve gone for help at that point, but I was just about to level up—now I have to sit next to this dead guy all night while I try to take all five capture points,” Lee said as he scooted his chair away from the lifeless gamer, who he estimated had died about…”
johnnyboy
9 years ago
Seems to be some disagreement over whether Freddie Gray’s knife was illegal or not.
“Meanwhile, a police investigation continues as Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby builds her case. The separate investigations have some conflicting findings.
While Mosby said Friday that the officers had made an illegal arrest because a knife Gray was carrying was not a “switchblade,” a violation of state law, the police task force studied the knife and determined it was “spring-assisted,” which does violate a Baltimore code.”
It will be interesting to see how this plays out, but unless the prosecutor has knowledge that the police willfully, physically broke Gray’s neck I don’t see the murder or manslaughter charges holding up. Possibly some sort of negligence or withholding medical care.
Also, I wonder what role the arresting officers played in his death. If it turns out the arrest was legal, perhaps they are being charged for putting him in the van without buckling his seat belt.
King then told Blitzer, “I do believe in having more surveillance of people in the Muslim community, because that’s where the threat comes from.”
He acknowledged it might be viewed as unconstitutional, but argued the FBI shoud be “authorized to go further than that” and it’s “very reasonable” right now for someone like the shooter with terror ties to be surveilled.”
tbonetylr
9 years ago
GOP TX Governor and other Right-Wing Nut Jobs Crazy over ‘Jade Helm’ regular special OPs mission. Some believe the exercise is martial law.
Conspiracists Hype ‘Jade Helm’ Theory of Yet Another Imminent Martial Law Coup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7bTOH7IEkc
“Jade Helm has replaced last year’s InfoWars conspiracy worries about a fake city built by the Army in Virginia and got the attention last week of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who says he will have his state’s national guard “monitor” federal troops involved in the exercise. The topic even came up at a White House press briefing.
“In no way will the constitutional rights or civil liberties of any American citizen be infringed upon while this exercise is being conducted,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said, Bloomberg News reported.
Earnest “also tried to dispel some of the misinformation reported by Jones,” including claims that Jade Helm participants will be wearing special armbands akin to Nazi SS troops wearing Swastika armbands.
The Special Operations Command has sent officers to speak with citizens caught up in the conspiracy-hype, including a group that gathered last month in Bastrop County, Texas.”
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Look at the picture of this GOP delusional hateful lady…Fox news host says no no no http://www.mediaite.com/tv/pamela-geller-compares-self-to-rosa-parks-fox-host-aint-having-it/
” Donald Trump’s claim that she was taunting Muslims with her anti-Islam events, American Freedom Defense Initiative head Pamela Geller wondered whether Trump would have also told Rosa Parks to go to the back of the bus.
“What would he have said about Rosa Parks?” Gellar asked. “‘Rosa Parks should never have gone to the front of the bus. She’s taunting people.’”
“No, no, no, no, no,” host Martha MacCallum said. “How do you make the Rosa Parks comparison?…They’re saying if you want to make a difference, you do it in a Christian way, you don’t do it in a crass way by insulting someone’s religion.”
“Yeah, well, I will not bridge my freedom so as not to offend savages,” Gellar said.
ChickenHead
9 years ago
“Seems to be some disagreement over whether Freddie Gray’s knife was illegal or not.”
This is a non-issue.
It does not matter if his knife was legal or not.
Probable cause is all about “probable” not “actual”.
Probable cause is based on whether a reasonable police officer would truly believe the knife to have been unlawful. If it is later determined to be lawful, there is no prosecution… but that does not make the arrest unlawful.
If the mistaken belief that the knife was illegal was not reasonable or the arrest was done knowing the knife was legal, it is an unlawful arrest. That is a large burden to prove… especially to a jury which might feel it reasonable to confuse a switchblade and a spring-assisted knife… or confuse the laws and ordinances that regulate them.
The question everyone should be asking is if making eye contact and running away was reason enough to give chase.
The answer is interesting.
johnnyboy
9 years ago
#23
I see your point. Based on the officer’s understanding of the law, you may be arrested for something and then let go when a more experienced officer realizes they don’t really have anything to hold you.
I’m still wondering if the charges for false imprisonment and official misconduct are going to be dropped.
From many legal analysts perspective (including Dershowitz) the prosecutor grossly overcharged in order to quell the masses and prevent more rioting. Many are also saying she should recuse herself from the case as she is somewhat of an activist for the BLM cause. I recall hearing that most who were arrested during the riots weren’t charged with anything. Also there appears to be video of her husband -a city council member- waving police off to allow rioters and looters to do their thing.
The Donta Allen “scoop” was likely leaked from a member of her staff to a local news reporter that the staff member was dating in order to counter the claim of the prisoner who was actually in the van who said it seemed like Freddie Gray was thrashing about trying to harm himself. Donta Allen probably wasn’t the second passenger in the van.
When all is said and done, perhaps years from now, I think people who study this incident and the handling of it by the State’s Attorney’s office are going to find misdeeds and impropriety on her and her staff’s part.
johnnyboy
9 years ago
The first amendment doesn’t exist to protect inoffensive speech. Inoffensive speech doesn’t need protection.
If people can stomp on the flag with the expectation of not being killed, then people should certainly be able to draw a cartoon.
Whether or not we agree or think it’s tasteful or tactful, the boundaries of free speech constantly need to be pushed so that they can’t be narrowed by intimidation from offended people.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
GOP Debate Stage or better put…GOP Nut Jobs Debate Stage http://time.com/3846448/republican-debates-2016/
“From 23 debates in 2012 to as many as 17 candidates(9 debates) in 2016. The Republican Party has a whole new debate problem in 2016.
After suffering through a seemingly endless and unwieldy stream of 23 debates in the 2012 cycle, the Republican National Committee took control of the process, marshaling networks and candidates to agree to a framework where they only participate in fewer than a dozen sanctioned debates. But now the national party and networks face the new challenge of arranging as many as 17 candidates on a single televised stage.
“This is truly historic in that normally you are trying to get people into the debates and now you are trying to whittle people out of the debates,” said one Republican operative familiar with the debate process. “You’ve never had more than 10 candidates in either party on a debate stage. You could get to at least 16 to 17 candidates and make a legitimate case for them being there—easy.”
The first debate, in Cleveland in August, will be the most pivotal, according to GOP operatives and campaign aides. Failure to earn a place on the stage will likely be the death knell to a campaign, depriving a candidate of an opportunity to shine, and a visible mark of failure in a crowded field. Republicans who have traveled the country boosting their name recognition but who haven’t made any steps toward actually running, like Rep. Pete King and former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton, are, by all accounts, out.
Carson, according to a number of party insiders, is all-but-guaranteed a spot given his relatively strong polling in the GOP field. The bigger issue is former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina—the only woman seeking the Republican nomination and also one of the party’s most ferocious Clinton critics—who barely registers in polling. Both announced their presidential candidacies on Monday.
There’s also the matter of Donald Trump. The reality television star has formed a presidential exploratory committee but has yet to officially declare himself a candidate for the White House. Should he do so, many Republican insiders say it would be hard for the party to exclude him—voters find him entertaining and he has a large megaphone with which he could embarrass the GOP. “This sounds crazy, but it’s safer to just include him,” said one 2016 presidential aide.”
tbonetylr
9 years ago
Carly Fiorina just announced her presidential campaign bid and below is why you shouldn’t vote for her…
Tbone’s now got a plan
to find him an African man.
With HIV dead,
it’s safe to give head
and suck all the black diick that he can.
ChickenHead
9 years ago
Johnnyboy,
The prosecution is doing everything possible to keep the defense from examining the knife. This gives the appearance that they know the knife to be illegal… but must keep the hype going longer.
Instead of framing this as a fake racism issue, there are some real questions that should be asked by all races and all classes…
– Should the government be involved with regulating possession of any type of knife or should it just concern itself with incorrect usage? This same line of thinking could apply to many things.
– Courts have upheld that running from cops is not probable cause… except in known high-crime areas. Is this aware policework or is this an infringement on civil rights? Does this give a legitimate tool for crime reduction or does this target the poor (and minority)?
– Will all the talk of “false arrest”, in a situation that appears to be a legal arrest, also apply to those who have caused the arrest of at least two of the cops? Should politicians who knowingly interfere with the legal system have criminal as well as civil liability?
– Why is this STILL being framed as a racial issue?
@32: Chickenhead this is still a racial issue because the 24 hour news media needs it to remain a racial issue to keep the eyeballs and page views coming to the their network. Then you have the activist groups who also want to keep the perception of this being a racial going which is likely been good for their fundraising. Finally you have the politicians that need this remain a racial issue so that they can deflect blame on their poor running of the city of Baltimore.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
GI Korea says…
“is still a racial issue because the 24 hour news media needs it to remain a racial issue”
“activist groups who also want to keep the perception of this being a racial going(sic)”
“which is(sic) likely been good for their fundraising”
“Finally you have the politicians that need this(sic) remain a racial issue”
Between ALL that KONGLISH let me just ask how or why you’d expect this to be anything other than “racist” when a young black teenager who TURNED HIMSELF IN to various misdemeanor charges but received a half million dollar bail(and ain’t getting out anytime soon ~ DUH!) while any or all of the 6 cops(3 of which are white and hide behind the “police bill of rights”) up for felony murder charges only have 250-350 thousand dollars bail or while Durst/The Jinx ~ WHITE MAN ~ (murder charge) was released on 400 thousand dollars bail?
ChickenHead
9 years ago
Tbone, and all the angry whitey-hating/whitey-blaming racists are going to be very disappointed when few-to-none of these politically-motivated charges stick on the cops.
It will be even more disappointing for them when Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby, an affirmative action law school student and affirmative action prosecutor, goes the way of Mike Nifong after this fantastically unethical and unprofessional episode is over.
Though it might not be such a big deal when this all goes away… as the under-educated and under-informed masses will have their attention redirected to the latest white-cop-shoots-black-career-felon-and-aspiring-rapper-who-was-just-starting-to-turn-his-life-around.
Protip: Tbone, perhaps making fun of GI Korea’s mistakes in a hastily-typed comment is legitimate criticism which will promote future caution… and perhaps it makes you feel more powerful and important… but, if you choose to do that, kindly refrain from following it up with a disjointed paragraph filled with mistakes. It really takes the impact out of your criticism.
Andy
9 years ago
I thought only Korea hired protesters, lol.
A political action committee called, “Save Lives, Save the Cameras,” hired a Cleveland, Ohio-based marketing firm to pay people $18 an hour to act as protesters against the amendment, according to Canon and others, including Arlington City Councilman Robert Rivera.
While the firm, Extreme Marketing and Promotions, declined to comment on their involvement, FoxNews.com obtained emails and archived Facebook posts from a firm employee, recruiting “sign holders” and “brand ambassadors” to get “a certain message across with holding signs, during the voting process.”
The advertisement calls for candidates who are “outgoing and have high energy” and requires they wear khakis and a “solid nice white top.”
I think tbone has revealed more about himself than he intended.
He’s righteously angry about the dystopian state of the black community in America. Unfortunately, he is also unable to make the connection between Democrats in the 1860s fighting to keep blacks in chains, White Democrats in the 1920s running the KKK and creating the Jim Crow Laws, Democrats in the 1960s forcing Rosa Parks and others to the back of the bus, and Democrats in the 21st Century fanning racism to keep blacks under their thumb and on the “New Plantation”, voting for Democrats instead of picking cotton or tobacco.
May it please God that he wakes up. His energy is needed if we are ever to remove the problem.
setnaffa
9 years ago
He should read what Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger, and other 20th Century “Progressives” spoke and wrote about the black community.
tbonetylr
9 years ago
EGGHEAD is a LUNATIC just like Georgia Councilman/Terry Ernst(see photo): Shoot The Looters
Terry Ernst is a Peachtree City, Georgia(SOUTHERN GOP DELUSIONAL HICK) councilman and a former captain in the Peachtree City Police Department and he thinks the police should have the authority to ‘shoot looters.’
Sorry you COP dork and EGGHEAD. that just ain’t the way America is. You’d think Terry LUNATIC Ernst would realize this but of course EGGHEAD is just a follower following those LUNATIC GOP’ers.
The column refers to the protests in Baltimore over Freddie Gray’s death.
Read the code words in this column.
Via The Citizen:
…
“John Crawford, a young black man with a toy gun in Walmart was gunned down by police officers while he was talking on his cellphone. Last November, Cleveland police officers killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice for playing with a toy gun in a park near his home. This list goes on and on and on.
In January, after Ohio State’s national title win over the Oregon Ducks, property was destroyed, fires were started all over town. The difference is, white people were rioting but the media called it a ‘celebration.’ The rioters were not called ‘thugs.'”
When a person breaks the law, the police are supposed to arrest them, not shoot them dead. Innocent until proven guilty is still a thing but…
…Terry Ernst(and DUMB AZZ EGGHEAD) wants to do away with that.”
…cont…
“I can’t believe we have to explain that to an elected official and former cop. While he claims (several times) it’s not about race, it is.
And FFS, Ernst has a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice, according to his bio. I’ll bet he’s ‘pro-life,’ too.”
johnnyboy
9 years ago
In my mind, if a stranger is in your home or business when you have locked the doors, it should be legal to shoot them.
You shouldn’t have to wait around to find out their intentions. If they have broken into your home or business, they most likely already present a threat to you, your family, or your livelihood.
As far as riots, people probably shouldn’t be shot down in the streets unless they are posing a threat to someone. For instance, if you are trying to light a structure on fire and people are inside, you should probably be shot.
It wouldn’t take long for a lot of this animalistic, entitled, nonsense to stop if people realized there were real consequences to their actions.
Giving rioters free rein to let off steam is effectively temporarily suspending enforcement of laws on a wide scale. It is a dangerous proposition and we have seen what it leads to for the people trying to make an honest living in those communities.
Setnaffa
9 years ago
Well-said johnnyboy!
setnaffa
9 years ago
“A federal court has ruled that the government’s search of a traveling businessman’s laptop at the California border was unreasonable and violated his privacy.
In an opinion posted Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson suppressed evidence obtained from the computer of South Korean businessman Jae Shik Kim, undercutting the government’s case that he conspired to sell aircraft technology illegally to Iran. Jackson said that federal law enforcement improperly used Kim’s border crossing as an excuse to seize his computer and gather evidence it needed to prove suspected arms control violations.”
EGGHEAD will require a human centipede to be formed so he can round up everyone while positioning himself last enabling him to eat everyone else’s human excrement. WATCH video of WHITE RACIST COP kicking BLACK MAN in face after BLACK MAN followed “WHITE MAN COP’s ORDERS…” I’m sure EGGHEAD has an excuse for the RACIST WHITE KICKAZZ BLACK MAN COP…
Video: White Delaware Cop Kicks Black Suspect in Face
Newly released footage shows August 2013 incident near Dover gas station
Another case where BLACK MAN must pay more for bail comparatively(obviously) speaking.
“Newser) – “Oh my God. That’s bad. That’s messed up.” That was the reaction of one Delaware viewer interviewed by the News Journal to a video released yesterday showing a white Dover Police Department officer kicking a black suspect in the head during an August 2013 incident, the newspaper reports. Cpl. Thomas Webster can be seen about halfway through the five-minute, 25-second video (taken from a police car dashboard camera) coming up to a then-30-year-old Lateef Dickerson near a Dover gas station where a fight had been reported, with gun drawn. Ordered to the ground, Dickerson begins to comply; Webster kicks him once in the head. Dickerson lost consciousness and was taken to the hospital with a broken jaw, the paper adds.
A 2014 grand jury chose not to indict Webster, and that same year the US Attorney’s Office said Dickerson’s civil rights hadn’t been violated, per Reuters—actions that prompted the ACLU to sue the police department and demand the video’s release. Attorney General Matt Denn, in place since just January, took a personal look at the case and requested a second grand jury to weigh in; it indicted Webster Monday and he was arrested on a felony assault charge that day. Rep. Sean Lynn tells the News Journal that the officer’s use of force “seems completely unwarranted. … I was definitely taken aback.” Meanwhile, the head of the Delaware police union had a different rationale for why criminal charges were brought: “It’s not fair. This was done because of what is taking place in society today,” he said in apparent reference to Baltimore and Ferguson. Webster’s lawyer says his client will plead not guilty; he’s out on $5,000 bail. “
tbonetylr
9 years ago
setnaffa’s buddy will be up on perv, porn, (including child), property rights infringement, gayness world ending, etc…while his buddy implicates setnaffa for same same.
setnaffa
9 years ago
tbone, please allow these words to heal you:
Matthew 15:10-20 (ESV)
And he called the people to him and said to them, “Hear and understand: it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.” Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?” He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.” But Peter said to him, “Explain the parable to us.” And he said, “Are you also still without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled? But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”
Here’s another useless quote from a work of fiction:
Gandalf 10 (LOTR)
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.”
Setnaffa
9 years ago
Leon, when at the Judgement you kneel and acknowledge Jesus Christ as your Lord, please remembwr this moment. He could have been your Savior.
Setnaffa, out of 3000 or more gods, the odds are very low that you have the right one either.
Liz
9 years ago
There were, actually, Christian elements to Tolkien’s work. LOTR was allegorical.
Tolkien was a significant influence on the conversion of CS Lewis to Christianity (he had been an atheist).
tbonetylr
9 years ago
setnaffa is not wise according to worldly standards, nor powerful, nor of noble birth. TBONETYLR Googol
Korean businesses especially hard hit by looters
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/korean-businesses-especially-hard-hit-by-looters/32667308
3 of 6 officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death are black
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/national/south/2015/05/6_cops_3_black_3_white_charged_in_freddie_gray_s_death
“3 of 6 officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death are black”
But don’t let it be a black and a white one
‘Cause they’ll slam ya down to the street top
Black police showing out for the white cop
– Ice Cube
It is kind of well-known on the street that black cops are far more violent against blacks than white cops.
In this situations, there is so much misinformation, media manipulation, and political posturing, the reality is probably far different than the narrative that is being pushed. That will come out in court… where the ridiculous inflated charges against the cops will never stick.
This whole incident has a good side, though.
With the racial angle evaporating, it might bring attention to current police attitudes and tactics… which is likely something ALL Americans should be demonstrating against.
…though this Freddie Gray case seems to be yet another poor example to use when promoting “racist white cops” or “police brutality” narratives.
Bernie Sanders for President 2016
Sanders: We’re Living in a ‘Very Ugly Moment in American History’ Because Of Income Inequality
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024731974
“We have right now in real terms almost 13 percent of our people are unemployed. We have not extended unemployment benefits, long-term unemployment benefits. So you have folks out there now who have virtually no income coming in. They have families. They have kids. How are they going to eat? We have veterans out there who are trying to get into the food stamp program,” Sanders said.
“So to me what you’re looking at is an ugly kind of class warfare where the people on top want more and more and more. And they’re pushing down in an incredibly terrible way the most vulnerable people in our country.”
“Tax breaks to billionaires and cuts to nutrition programs for kids. If a kid does not have enough food to eat, how is that child going to do well in school? He or she is not going do well in school,” he continued.
“So you’re attacking the most vulnerable people in this country. There is a rise in poverty among senior citizens, elderly people. They don’t have enough to eat. What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can’t take care of the elderly and the children?”
Sen. Bernie Sanders: We have a government of, by, and for billionaires
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brookings-now/posts/2015/02/bernie-sanders-government-of-by-and-for-billionaires
“Today in my view,” he continued, “the most serious problem we face as a nation is the grotesque and growing level of wealth and income inequality. This is a profound moral issue, it is an economic issue, and it is a political issue.”
Watch his entire address as well as the Q&A session moderated by Senior Fellow E.J. Dionne, Jr., the W. Averell Harriman Chair.
Sen. Sanders described many of the challenges that the middle class face, including lower wages, increased poverty, high unemployment (11.3 percent real unemployment, he said, when you include people working part time who want to work full time), high child poverty, and continued high rates of uninsured (despite the Affordable Care Act). From Occupy Wall Street to the Tea Party, Sen. Sanders acknowledged “a lot of angry people out there” who “have every right to be angry.”
He called particular attention to the growing wealth gap in America, and how this plays out in politics. “As a result of disastrous Supreme Court decision, the 5-4 decision on Citizens United,” he said:
Tbone is right. Old white guys are the only ones who can restore the black community.
Wait. What?
Who runs Baltimore, Chicago, New York, St Louis, Houston, and New Orleans again?
I’m confused as to how Bernie can do anything except inspire Weekend jokes.
Conrad Black
What happened to the rights of the accused in America?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-happened-to-the-rights-of-the-accused/2015/04/30/8b4cf4ca-ef74-11e4-8abc-d6aa3bad79dd_story.html
Reading about the short, troubled life of Freddie Gray — who suffered lead poisoning as a child, was arrested for drug offenses more than a dozen times and died in police custody nearly two weeks ago in Baltimore — I recalled a description of the world of young men, mostly black, trapped in the American criminal justice system. It was written by an archconservative who was at the time a prisoner in a Florida jail.
“Many are victims of legal and social injustice, inadequately provided for by the public assistance system, and over-prosecuted and vengefully sentenced,” he wrote. “The failures of American education, social services and justice [are] unaffordable, as well as repulsive. In tens of millions of undervalued human lives . . . the United States pays a heavy price for an ethos afflicted by wantonness, waste and official human indifference.”
It is well known that, with nearly 5 percent of the world’s population, the United States has close to 25 percent of the world’s prisoners and, Black adds, 50 percent of its lawyers.
Prosecutors win 95 percent of their cases, 90 percent of them without ever having to go to trial, says Black, noting that the overall conviction rate is 60 percent in Canada and about 50 percent in Britain. Are American prosecutors that much better? No, Black insists, it is because of the plea bargain, a system of bullying and intimidation by government lawyers for which they “would be disbarred in most other serious countries, [and which] enables prosecutors to threaten everyone around the target with indictment if they don’t miraculously recall, under careful government coaching, inculpatory evidence.”
In an essay in the New York Review of Books, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff wrote that because of the plea bargain, “the criminal justice system in the United States today bears little relationship to what the Founding Fathers contemplated, what the movies and television portray, or what the average American believes.” There is, more often than not, no “day in court,” no trial, no rights for the accused. The prosecutor almost always gets what he wants.
Black also writes that American prisons are dedicated to punishment with a “primal vindictiveness,” which also ensures that inmates once released are utterly unfit for reintegration into society — virtually guaranteeing that they return to prison. European countries such as Norway, where the emphasis is almost the opposite — entirely focused on redemption and reintegration — have dramatically lower rates of recidivism.
The crime wave of the 1970s scared the United States. And when scared, Americans often overreact and enact bad legislation. What followed was a spate of laws relating to drugs and crime that have given police and prosecutors far too much power and the accused too few protections and too little dignity. The zeal to lock people up has spawned a vast “prison-industrial complex” that lobbies aggressively for its own special interests — which, of course, means more prisoners and, thus, prisons.
The Anglo-American system of law was historically defined by its focus on the rights of the accused, not the powers of the prosecutor. That was how it differed from those in most of the rest of the world. In describing that system, the great English jurist William Blackstone said, “Better that 10 guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” We have strayed very far from that core conviction in the United States today.”
Hey now! Some prosecutors don’t really want to prosecute and actually defend the suspect(cop) i.e. Michael Brown killer cop murder case that didn’t ever become a case.
It’s not just Ferguson, Missouri — here’s how the system protects police.
http://www.thenation.com/article/190937/why-its-impossible-indict-cop
“How to police the police is a question as old as civilization, now given special urgency by a St. Louis County grand jury’s return of a “no bill” of indictment for Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson in his fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager, Michael Brown. The result is shocking to many, depressingly predictable to more than a few.
Can the cops be controlled? It’s never been easy: according to one old sociological chestnut, the monopoly on the legitimate use of violence is what defines modern government, and this monopoly is jealously protected against the second-guessing of puny civilians. All over the country, the issue of restraining police power is framed around the retribution against individual cops, from Staten Island to Milwaukee to Los Angeles. But is this the best way to impose discipline on law enforcement and roll back what even Republican appellate court appointees arecalling rampant criminalization?
Police shootings in America
First, the big picture. Last year, the FBI tallied 461 “justifiable homicides” committed by law enforcement—justifiable because the Bureau assumes so, and the nation’s courts have not found otherwise. This is the highest number in two decades, even as the nation’s overall homicide rate continues to drop. Homicides committed by on-duty law enforcement make up 3 percent of the 14,196 homicides committed in the United States in 2013. A USA Today analysisof the FBI database found an average of about ninety-six police homicides a year in which a white officer kills a black person.
The FBI’s police homicide stats are fuzzy, and they are surely an undercount, given that they come from voluntary reports to the FBI from police departments all over the country. That the federal government does not keep a strict national tally shows just how seriously it takes this problem. A crowdsourced database has sprung up to fill the gap, as has a wiki-tabulation.
Perhaps the most disturbing thing about these police killings, many of them of unarmed victims, is that our courts find them perfectly legal.”
“Weekend jokes”
I’m waiting you(and your ilk) humorless B*ST*RD(s)!
Blaine Harden “America(the tyrant) created North Korea in 1945 and Kim, Il-Sung has really never died.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-shady-origins-of-north-koreas-dynasty-of-kim-tyrants/2015/03/27/69230a1a-c1c5-11e4-ad5c-3b8ce89f1b89_story.html
“Kim, Jung-un is rational, cunning and cruel.
Can the regime survive much longer?
Yes!”
Until further notice…
Weekend at Bernies…
Colored People Not Wanted
Heating and cooling company refuses service to ‘colored people’ in ‘Mount Ghetto’
Heidi Hemmat(investigative reporter & video), you go girl!!!
http://kdvr.com/2015/04/29/watch-colorado-heating-and-cooling-company-refuses-to-service-colored-people-in-mountghetto/
“DENVER — A FOX31 Denver hidden camera investigation captured a local business woman refusing to do business in a Denver neighborhood because she says the residents are “colored people” and “they don’t pay their bills.
ACLU’s legal director Mark Silverstein watched our hidden camera video. He said race-based discrimination policies are against the law. Silverstein said, “There are local ordinances, there are statutes and there are even federal laws that forbid this kind of discrimination based on race.”
We wanted to talk to Andrea, the manager who made the racist statements, but when she saw us coming she turned the other way.
Denver’s Heidi Hemmat asked, “Andrea, we just want to ask you why you don’t go to Montbello … we just want to know why you call it Mount Ghetto?” Andrea said, “Speak with the owner.”
The company is owned by 21-year-old Kasey Dykman and his 48-year-old father Kevin Dykman.
The older Dykman’s arrest record includes convictions for theft and DUI.
The neighborhood just north of Interstate 70 is home to about 31,000 people. The community is mostly Hispanic residents and the average household income is $45,000, just $2,000 less than Denver’s average household income of $47,000.
If you live in Montbello and were denied service by Mile High Heating and Cooling in Westminster, you can file a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division.”
‘Draw Muhammad’ Contest Shooting: Two Suspects Dead, Guard Shot in Texas
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/shooting-outside-draw-muhammad-contest-texas-n352996
Black lawmakers push back on Obama over ‘thugs’ comment
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/240807-black-lawmakers-push-back-on-obama-over-thugs
Never assume you’ve outgunned any gathering in Texas.
#11 & #13
None of the approximately 200 people attending the event was hurt.
Thirty thousand dollars for security, which included a standby SWAT team, for an event attended by 200 people? Well, at least the bait worked.
U.S. student held in North Korea tells CNN: ‘I wanted to be arrested’
Good! He is where he wants to be.
Can we now just forget about him and not waste any more information space about him?
Former Baltimore Marine: They Used To Call Me ‘Patriot,’ Now They Call Me ‘Thug’
http://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/2015/05/04/former-baltimore-marine-they-used-to-call-me-patriot-now-they-call-me-thug/
Now it all makes sense, “NO NEW TAXES” so the Muslims can “win,” take over America and all the GOP politicians got hoodwinked.
GOP power player Norquist steps down from NRA amid probe of Islamist ties
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/04/15/gop-power-player-norquist-steps-down-from-nra-amid-probe-islamist-ties/
Korean “jeong(friendship)” at its finest. Koreans always told me that I couldn’t ever possibly understand Korean jeong because it’s special to only Koreans. But, now I understand Korean jeong…
http://www.theonion.com/article/guy-who-died-playing-league-legends-internet-cafe–50335
“SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA—Admitting he was having difficulty concentrating on destroying his enemy’s nexus as he sat inside PC Zone internet café Monday, League Of Legends: Dominion player JuHo Lee complained that the guy who died at the adjacent computer station was really starting to ruin the game for him. “I knew this was going to happen when he started losing consciousness and slumped forward on his keyboard, and I probably should’ve gone for help at that point, but I was just about to level up—now I have to sit next to this dead guy all night while I try to take all five capture points,” Lee said as he scooted his chair away from the lifeless gamer, who he estimated had died about…”
Seems to be some disagreement over whether Freddie Gray’s knife was illegal or not.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gunshot-at-scene-of-protests-underscores-tension-in-baltimore/ar-BBjbrMC
“Meanwhile, a police investigation continues as Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby builds her case. The separate investigations have some conflicting findings.
While Mosby said Friday that the officers had made an illegal arrest because a knife Gray was carrying was not a “switchblade,” a violation of state law, the police task force studied the knife and determined it was “spring-assisted,” which does violate a Baltimore code.”
It will be interesting to see how this plays out, but unless the prosecutor has knowledge that the police willfully, physically broke Gray’s neck I don’t see the murder or manslaughter charges holding up. Possibly some sort of negligence or withholding medical care.
Also, I wonder what role the arresting officers played in his death. If it turns out the arrest was legal, perhaps they are being charged for putting him in the van without buckling his seat belt.
GOP lunatic Peter KIng doesn’t care about the constitution ~ Garland, TX center hosting a “Draw Mohammed” cartoon contest.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/peter-king-we-need-more-surveillance-of-people-in-the-muslim-community/
“He said the attack was clearly “ISIS-inspired” and pointed to the “social media dialogue going on” with one of the suspects.
King then told Blitzer, “I do believe in having more surveillance of people in the Muslim community, because that’s where the threat comes from.”
He acknowledged it might be viewed as unconstitutional, but argued the FBI shoud be “authorized to go further than that” and it’s “very reasonable” right now for someone like the shooter with terror ties to be surveilled.”
GOP TX Governor and other Right-Wing Nut Jobs Crazy over ‘Jade Helm’ regular special OPs mission. Some believe the exercise is martial law.
Conspiracists Hype ‘Jade Helm’ Theory of Yet Another Imminent Martial Law Coup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7bTOH7IEkc
“Jade Helm has replaced last year’s InfoWars conspiracy worries about a fake city built by the Army in Virginia and got the attention last week of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who says he will have his state’s national guard “monitor” federal troops involved in the exercise. The topic even came up at a White House press briefing.
“In no way will the constitutional rights or civil liberties of any American citizen be infringed upon while this exercise is being conducted,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said, Bloomberg News reported.
Earnest “also tried to dispel some of the misinformation reported by Jones,” including claims that Jade Helm participants will be wearing special armbands akin to Nazi SS troops wearing Swastika armbands.
The Special Operations Command has sent officers to speak with citizens caught up in the conspiracy-hype, including a group that gathered last month in Bastrop County, Texas.”
Look at the picture of this GOP delusional hateful lady…Fox news host says no no no
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/pamela-geller-compares-self-to-rosa-parks-fox-host-aint-having-it/
” Donald Trump’s claim that she was taunting Muslims with her anti-Islam events, American Freedom Defense Initiative head Pamela Geller wondered whether Trump would have also told Rosa Parks to go to the back of the bus.
“What would he have said about Rosa Parks?” Gellar asked. “‘Rosa Parks should never have gone to the front of the bus. She’s taunting people.’”
“No, no, no, no, no,” host Martha MacCallum said. “How do you make the Rosa Parks comparison?…They’re saying if you want to make a difference, you do it in a Christian way, you don’t do it in a crass way by insulting someone’s religion.”
“Yeah, well, I will not bridge my freedom so as not to offend savages,” Gellar said.
“Seems to be some disagreement over whether Freddie Gray’s knife was illegal or not.”
This is a non-issue.
It does not matter if his knife was legal or not.
Probable cause is all about “probable” not “actual”.
Probable cause is based on whether a reasonable police officer would truly believe the knife to have been unlawful. If it is later determined to be lawful, there is no prosecution… but that does not make the arrest unlawful.
If the mistaken belief that the knife was illegal was not reasonable or the arrest was done knowing the knife was legal, it is an unlawful arrest. That is a large burden to prove… especially to a jury which might feel it reasonable to confuse a switchblade and a spring-assisted knife… or confuse the laws and ordinances that regulate them.
The question everyone should be asking is if making eye contact and running away was reason enough to give chase.
The answer is interesting.
#23
I see your point. Based on the officer’s understanding of the law, you may be arrested for something and then let go when a more experienced officer realizes they don’t really have anything to hold you.
I’m still wondering if the charges for false imprisonment and official misconduct are going to be dropped.
From many legal analysts perspective (including Dershowitz) the prosecutor grossly overcharged in order to quell the masses and prevent more rioting. Many are also saying she should recuse herself from the case as she is somewhat of an activist for the BLM cause. I recall hearing that most who were arrested during the riots weren’t charged with anything. Also there appears to be video of her husband -a city council member- waving police off to allow rioters and looters to do their thing.
The Donta Allen “scoop” was likely leaked from a member of her staff to a local news reporter that the staff member was dating in order to counter the claim of the prisoner who was actually in the van who said it seemed like Freddie Gray was thrashing about trying to harm himself. Donta Allen probably wasn’t the second passenger in the van.
When all is said and done, perhaps years from now, I think people who study this incident and the handling of it by the State’s Attorney’s office are going to find misdeeds and impropriety on her and her staff’s part.
The first amendment doesn’t exist to protect inoffensive speech. Inoffensive speech doesn’t need protection.
If people can stomp on the flag with the expectation of not being killed, then people should certainly be able to draw a cartoon.
Whether or not we agree or think it’s tasteful or tactful, the boundaries of free speech constantly need to be pushed so that they can’t be narrowed by intimidation from offended people.
GOP Debate Stage or better put…GOP Nut Jobs Debate Stage
http://time.com/3846448/republican-debates-2016/
“From 23 debates in 2012 to as many as 17 candidates(9 debates) in 2016. The Republican Party has a whole new debate problem in 2016.
After suffering through a seemingly endless and unwieldy stream of 23 debates in the 2012 cycle, the Republican National Committee took control of the process, marshaling networks and candidates to agree to a framework where they only participate in fewer than a dozen sanctioned debates. But now the national party and networks face the new challenge of arranging as many as 17 candidates on a single televised stage.
“This is truly historic in that normally you are trying to get people into the debates and now you are trying to whittle people out of the debates,” said one Republican operative familiar with the debate process. “You’ve never had more than 10 candidates in either party on a debate stage. You could get to at least 16 to 17 candidates and make a legitimate case for them being there—easy.”
The first debate, in Cleveland in August, will be the most pivotal, according to GOP operatives and campaign aides. Failure to earn a place on the stage will likely be the death knell to a campaign, depriving a candidate of an opportunity to shine, and a visible mark of failure in a crowded field. Republicans who have traveled the country boosting their name recognition but who haven’t made any steps toward actually running, like Rep. Pete King and former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton, are, by all accounts, out.
Carson, according to a number of party insiders, is all-but-guaranteed a spot given his relatively strong polling in the GOP field. The bigger issue is former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina—the only woman seeking the Republican nomination and also one of the party’s most ferocious Clinton critics—who barely registers in polling. Both announced their presidential candidacies on Monday.
There’s also the matter of Donald Trump. The reality television star has formed a presidential exploratory committee but has yet to officially declare himself a candidate for the White House. Should he do so, many Republican insiders say it would be hard for the party to exclude him—voters find him entertaining and he has a large megaphone with which he could embarrass the GOP. “This sounds crazy, but it’s safer to just include him,” said one 2016 presidential aide.”
Carly Fiorina just announced her presidential campaign bid and below is why you shouldn’t vote for her…
She forgot to register her own sad face domain…
http://carlyfiorina.org/
Winning Muhammad cartoon portrait, and MORE..
http://www.ijreview.com/2015/05/312509-here-is-the-prize-winning-cartoon-of-muhammad-that-2-islamic-terrorists-in-texas-tried-to-snuff-out/
This is what the radical Muslims were trying to prevent from going public:
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/05/02/sold-out-may-3rd-muhammad-art-exhibit-and-contest-in-garland-texas-photos/
The Federalist Papers reported on the winning cartoon and asked the question, “Does this cartoon justify mass murder?”
The $10,000 prize-winning cartoon was drawn by Bosch Fawstin, a former Muslim.
HIV killed except in CHICKENHEAD/EGGHEAD, it’s been “un-canned”
‘Scientists Have Found A Way To Kill HIV’
But the GOP doesn’t believe in science so…..
http://www.alan.com/2015/05/05/scientists-have-found-a-way-to-kill-hiv/
Amy Schumer(comedian) is the cousin of NY Sen(D). Charles Schumer who leans strongly to the right/conservative/GOP side. Watch full 90 second video…
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/05/04/comedy-centrals-amy-schumer-guns-still-easier-to-get-than-birth-control/
LIMERICK
Tbone’s now got a plan
to find him an African man.
With HIV dead,
it’s safe to give head
and suck all the black diick that he can.
Johnnyboy,
The prosecution is doing everything possible to keep the defense from examining the knife. This gives the appearance that they know the knife to be illegal… but must keep the hype going longer.
Instead of framing this as a fake racism issue, there are some real questions that should be asked by all races and all classes…
– Should the government be involved with regulating possession of any type of knife or should it just concern itself with incorrect usage? This same line of thinking could apply to many things.
– Courts have upheld that running from cops is not probable cause… except in known high-crime areas. Is this aware policework or is this an infringement on civil rights? Does this give a legitimate tool for crime reduction or does this target the poor (and minority)?
– Will all the talk of “false arrest”, in a situation that appears to be a legal arrest, also apply to those who have caused the arrest of at least two of the cops? Should politicians who knowingly interfere with the legal system have criminal as well as civil liability?
– Why is this STILL being framed as a racial issue?
@32: Chickenhead this is still a racial issue because the 24 hour news media needs it to remain a racial issue to keep the eyeballs and page views coming to the their network. Then you have the activist groups who also want to keep the perception of this being a racial going which is likely been good for their fundraising. Finally you have the politicians that need this remain a racial issue so that they can deflect blame on their poor running of the city of Baltimore.
GI Korea says…
“is still a racial issue because the 24 hour news media needs it to remain a racial issue”
“activist groups who also want to keep the perception of this being a racial going(sic)”
“which is(sic) likely been good for their fundraising”
“Finally you have the politicians that need this(sic) remain a racial issue”
Between ALL that KONGLISH let me just ask how or why you’d expect this to be anything other than “racist” when a young black teenager who TURNED HIMSELF IN to various misdemeanor charges but received a half million dollar bail(and ain’t getting out anytime soon ~ DUH!) while any or all of the 6 cops(3 of which are white and hide behind the “police bill of rights”) up for felony murder charges only have 250-350 thousand dollars bail or while Durst/The Jinx ~ WHITE MAN ~ (murder charge) was released on 400 thousand dollars bail?
Tbone, and all the angry whitey-hating/whitey-blaming racists are going to be very disappointed when few-to-none of these politically-motivated charges stick on the cops.
It will be even more disappointing for them when Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby, an affirmative action law school student and affirmative action prosecutor, goes the way of Mike Nifong after this fantastically unethical and unprofessional episode is over.
Though it might not be such a big deal when this all goes away… as the under-educated and under-informed masses will have their attention redirected to the latest white-cop-shoots-black-career-felon-and-aspiring-rapper-who-was-just-starting-to-turn-his-life-around.
Protip: Tbone, perhaps making fun of GI Korea’s mistakes in a hastily-typed comment is legitimate criticism which will promote future caution… and perhaps it makes you feel more powerful and important… but, if you choose to do that, kindly refrain from following it up with a disjointed paragraph filled with mistakes. It really takes the impact out of your criticism.
I thought only Korea hired protesters, lol.
A political action committee called, “Save Lives, Save the Cameras,” hired a Cleveland, Ohio-based marketing firm to pay people $18 an hour to act as protesters against the amendment, according to Canon and others, including Arlington City Councilman Robert Rivera.
While the firm, Extreme Marketing and Promotions, declined to comment on their involvement, FoxNews.com obtained emails and archived Facebook posts from a firm employee, recruiting “sign holders” and “brand ambassadors” to get “a certain message across with holding signs, during the voting process.”
The advertisement calls for candidates who are “outgoing and have high energy” and requires they wear khakis and a “solid nice white top.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/06/texas-tea-party-leader-fights-for-amendment-that-would-ban-red-light-traffic/?intcmp=latestnews&intcmp=latestnews
I think tbone has revealed more about himself than he intended.
He’s righteously angry about the dystopian state of the black community in America. Unfortunately, he is also unable to make the connection between Democrats in the 1860s fighting to keep blacks in chains, White Democrats in the 1920s running the KKK and creating the Jim Crow Laws, Democrats in the 1960s forcing Rosa Parks and others to the back of the bus, and Democrats in the 21st Century fanning racism to keep blacks under their thumb and on the “New Plantation”, voting for Democrats instead of picking cotton or tobacco.
May it please God that he wakes up. His energy is needed if we are ever to remove the problem.
He should read what Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger, and other 20th Century “Progressives” spoke and wrote about the black community.
EGGHEAD is a LUNATIC just like Georgia Councilman/Terry Ernst(see photo): Shoot The Looters
Terry Ernst is a Peachtree City, Georgia(SOUTHERN GOP DELUSIONAL HICK) councilman and a former captain in the Peachtree City Police Department and he thinks the police should have the authority to ‘shoot looters.’
Sorry you COP dork and EGGHEAD. that just ain’t the way America is. You’d think Terry LUNATIC Ernst would realize this but of course EGGHEAD is just a follower following those LUNATIC GOP’ers.
http://www.alan.com/2015/05/07/georgia-legislator-shoot-the-looters/
“What’s startling about a post at The Citizen, is that it’s authored by two people, one of which is a former police officer and is now employed as a councilman. It’s not just penned by some random guy.
The column refers to the protests in Baltimore over Freddie Gray’s death.
Read the code words in this column.
Via The Citizen:
…
“John Crawford, a young black man with a toy gun in Walmart was gunned down by police officers while he was talking on his cellphone. Last November, Cleveland police officers killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice for playing with a toy gun in a park near his home. This list goes on and on and on.
In January, after Ohio State’s national title win over the Oregon Ducks, property was destroyed, fires were started all over town. The difference is, white people were rioting but the media called it a ‘celebration.’ The rioters were not called ‘thugs.'”
When a person breaks the law, the police are supposed to arrest them, not shoot them dead. Innocent until proven guilty is still a thing but…
…Terry Ernst(and DUMB AZZ EGGHEAD) wants to do away with that.”
…cont…
“I can’t believe we have to explain that to an elected official and former cop. While he claims (several times) it’s not about race, it is.
And FFS, Ernst has a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice, according to his bio. I’ll bet he’s ‘pro-life,’ too.”
In my mind, if a stranger is in your home or business when you have locked the doors, it should be legal to shoot them.
You shouldn’t have to wait around to find out their intentions. If they have broken into your home or business, they most likely already present a threat to you, your family, or your livelihood.
As far as riots, people probably shouldn’t be shot down in the streets unless they are posing a threat to someone. For instance, if you are trying to light a structure on fire and people are inside, you should probably be shot.
It wouldn’t take long for a lot of this animalistic, entitled, nonsense to stop if people realized there were real consequences to their actions.
Giving rioters free rein to let off steam is effectively temporarily suspending enforcement of laws on a wide scale. It is a dangerous proposition and we have seen what it leads to for the people trying to make an honest living in those communities.
Well-said johnnyboy!
“A federal court has ruled that the government’s search of a traveling businessman’s laptop at the California border was unreasonable and violated his privacy.
In an opinion posted Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson suppressed evidence obtained from the computer of South Korean businessman Jae Shik Kim, undercutting the government’s case that he conspired to sell aircraft technology illegally to Iran. Jackson said that federal law enforcement improperly used Kim’s border crossing as an excuse to seize his computer and gather evidence it needed to prove suspected arms control violations.”
Read more at: http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BORDER_SEARCHES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-08-16-42-37
EGGHEAD will require a human centipede to be formed so he can round up everyone while positioning himself last enabling him to eat everyone else’s human excrement. WATCH video of WHITE RACIST COP kicking BLACK MAN in face after BLACK MAN followed “WHITE MAN COP’s ORDERS…” I’m sure EGGHEAD has an excuse for the RACIST WHITE KICKAZZ BLACK MAN COP…
Video: White Delaware Cop Kicks Black Suspect in Face
Newly released footage shows August 2013 incident near Dover gas station
Another case where BLACK MAN must pay more for bail comparatively(obviously) speaking.
http://www.newser.com/story/206554/video-white-delaware-cop-kicks-black-suspect-in-face.html
“Newser) – “Oh my God. That’s bad. That’s messed up.” That was the reaction of one Delaware viewer interviewed by the News Journal to a video released yesterday showing a white Dover Police Department officer kicking a black suspect in the head during an August 2013 incident, the newspaper reports. Cpl. Thomas Webster can be seen about halfway through the five-minute, 25-second video (taken from a police car dashboard camera) coming up to a then-30-year-old Lateef Dickerson near a Dover gas station where a fight had been reported, with gun drawn. Ordered to the ground, Dickerson begins to comply; Webster kicks him once in the head. Dickerson lost consciousness and was taken to the hospital with a broken jaw, the paper adds.
A 2014 grand jury chose not to indict Webster, and that same year the US Attorney’s Office said Dickerson’s civil rights hadn’t been violated, per Reuters—actions that prompted the ACLU to sue the police department and demand the video’s release. Attorney General Matt Denn, in place since just January, took a personal look at the case and requested a second grand jury to weigh in; it indicted Webster Monday and he was arrested on a felony assault charge that day. Rep. Sean Lynn tells the News Journal that the officer’s use of force “seems completely unwarranted. … I was definitely taken aback.” Meanwhile, the head of the Delaware police union had a different rationale for why criminal charges were brought: “It’s not fair. This was done because of what is taking place in society today,” he said in apparent reference to Baltimore and Ferguson. Webster’s lawyer says his client will plead not guilty; he’s out on $5,000 bail. “
setnaffa’s buddy will be up on perv, porn, (including child), property rights infringement, gayness world ending, etc…while his buddy implicates setnaffa for same same.
tbone, please allow these words to heal you:
Matthew 15:10-20 (ESV)
And he called the people to him and said to them, “Hear and understand: it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.” Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?” He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.” But Peter said to him, “Explain the parable to us.” And he said, “Are you also still without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled? But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”
Here’s another useless quote from a work of fiction:
Gandalf 10 (LOTR)
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.”
Leon, when at the Judgement you kneel and acknowledge Jesus Christ as your Lord, please remembwr this moment. He could have been your Savior.
Setnaffa, out of 3000 or more gods, the odds are very low that you have the right one either.
There were, actually, Christian elements to Tolkien’s work. LOTR was allegorical.
Tolkien was a significant influence on the conversion of CS Lewis to Christianity (he had been an atheist).
setnaffa is not wise according to worldly standards, nor powerful, nor of noble birth. TBONETYLR Googol
Trigger warning!
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/05/07/hesperia-resident-79-holds-violent-burglary-suspect-at-gunpoint-until-police-arrive/
See, it’s funny because it’s an actual trigger warning….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9gHZPDh12g
Liz you are a healer.
I’m a nurse, Setnaffa!
Glad someone thinks I chose the right calling. 🙂
((cyber hugs))
Hospitals have excellent video surveillance systems. The security is not always very good, though.
I managed to hack into the video recorder at Liz’s hospital and here is a picture of her in uniform preparing for her rounds.
http://images.halloweencostumes.com/products/3178/1-1/nurse-knockout-costume.jpg
Lol! CH. 🙂