Hello:
I report, you decide.
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With a little stepping-away from low-information thinking, it is not a matter of what I, or you, or anyone else thinks. It is a matter of the evidence of fact.
Just like with the so-called "case" of Trayvon Martin or Michael Brown, whatever was concocted by collaboratively lying bystanders, or was drummed-up by an agitated public, was irrelevant to fact. Like in those aforementioned incidents, there was no limit to the resources that could be committed to this battle against cops, as it has been instigated with federal dollars, federal investigators, and a federal bully pulpit by none less than President Obama or the puppeted Justice Departments of Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch.
To somewhat paraphrase a famous nursery rhyme, all the dictators horses and all the dictator's men could not put a broken case back together. I won't say "again" because it was never un-broken in the first place.
No case.
@DTT -- I guess you believe someone still needs to find the real killers of Nicloe Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman as well. The prosecutors in the that case couldn't secure a conviction against OJ, either.
So, were you dancing and whopping it up the day the jury came back with the OJ's "Not Guilty" verdict? Nah, I ..didn't think so.;-D...
Gee, and even though there was absolutely no case, the City of Baltimore settled a civil suit with the family of Freddie Gray for $6.4 million. If there was no case and any rational judge would throw such a suit out for having no merit, why would the city waste taxpayer dollars on such a settlement?
See Trayvon Martin. I can't keep track of all the atrocities committed since then. The song remains the same to me.
I copy/paste the reporting and you decide.
Four days after the funeral of Freddie Gray, Baltimore’s top prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, stood before a cluster of microphones and cameras to declare that she would pursue charges against six officers in the young man’s death. During the nationally televised news conference in May 2015, she promised the riot weary city that she would “deliver justice” on Gray’s behalf.
Fourteen months later, Mosby again faced the grip of news cameras — this time announcing that her office would drop all the remaining charges in the Gray case.
Despite a mistrial, three acquittals and a year of being “physically and professionally threatened, mocked, harassed and even sued,” a still-defiant Mosby said she remained convinced that bringing charges against the officers was the right thing to do.
“Justice is always worth the price of pursuit,” Mosby said Wednesday after the charges were dismissed. “We do not believe Freddie Gray killed himself.”
But while Mosby stood firm, defense attorneys and legal observers say the state faced insurmountable hurdles in winning a conviction against any officers from the start: The investigation and charges were rushed, and the evidence was thin. Problems with the case — which some say shouldn’t have been prosecuted at all — and how the state handled it became more apparent with each passing trial.
[Baltimore prosecutors drop all remaining charges in Freddie Gray case]
After the third acquittal of an officer, and with the judge again saying that prosecutors didn’t have the facts for a criminal conviction, Mosby and her team this month probably realized that no new evidence would emerge in the remaining trials to secure a conviction, said Adam Ruther, a former Baltimore prosecutor now in private defense practice.
“There’s a point at which you recognize doing the same thing over and over is not an effective strategy,” Ruther said. “It’s the right conclusion: that it’s not worth the taxpayers’ time and money.”
Prosecutors dismissed the charges against Garrett Miller as his trial was set to begin Wednesday. The state also dropped charges against Sgt. Alicia White and Officer William Porter. Officers Edward Nero, Caesar Goodson Jr. and Lt. Brian Rice were all acquitted earlier this year.
Perhaps because I lived in California (and was paying attention) during the time of the Rodney King beating (and subsequent travesty of a trial), I have a different perspective than many.
I don't know if the LAPD tried to "sabotage" that trial, but what I remember observing was testimony and evidence largely detached from the plain reality one say on the videotape of King's beating. I remember one participant describing his actions in the most clinical detached technical double-speak imaginable. I don't have an exact quote, but it resembled the following:
"I ascertained the subject was still not in compliance with our requests to cease resistance and inferred that further force might be required to bring the suspect into passive compliance. I extracted my department-isse model XV-204 nightstick and effected multiple blows upon the suspect's torso in an effort to encourage his compliance with our request to cease his resistance.
BULLS**T! What the cop was actually thinking at the time was, "Holy shit! The N*gg*er is still moving! Hit 'em again!!" But, of course, in the remote courtroom with many months to hone his line of double-speak patter, and no way to prove he didn't actually process the situation as though he were reviewing a legal brief, such testimony tended to diffuse the obvious truth from the videotape (the LAPD used Rodney King as a pinata that night).
With respect to the Gray case, I don't have enough details to know exactly what happened, and there is no videotape to give us a good record of the events leading to his death. Unfortunately, since the actual injury was most likely due to the "rough ride" and his death was due to a delay in medical care, it is difficult to pin any charges relating to willful abuse on the officers involved. In the strictest legal sense, they may not be guilty of any crime.
The city has already settled a civil suit with Gray's family, and I've read the DOJ is going to investigate the Baltimore police more systematically looking for patterns of abuse similar to those they found in Ferguson, MO. Maybe that investigation will lead to some good which could not be obtained by criminal trial.
Who knows......
Well, someone's lying.
Sometimes (though not always) likely answers in seemingly intractable puzzles like this can be indicated by a simple question:
'Who benefits?'.
And then there is this. It's amazing what a lot of passion can do to convince people that an injustice has been committed when the person has a lot to lose in the process and keeps on trying to win some JUSTICE.
Fourteen months later, Mosby again faced the grip of news cameras — this time announcing that her office would drop all the remaining charges in the Gray case.
Despite a mistrial, three acquittals and a year of being “physically and professionally threatened, mocked, harassed and even sued,” a still-defiant Mosby said she remained convinced that bringing charges against the officers was the right thing to do.
