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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBaltimore Cops being charged with Manslaughter---WOW!
And a bunch of other charges....Holy crap---S.A throwing the book at them.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)for everyone.
avebury
(10,952 posts)get some convictions.
pinto
(106,886 posts)chillfactor
(7,574 posts)cops HOPEFULLY will pay for their criminal behavior!
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)like her. She looks like she does not take any prisoners.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)she comes from a long line of police officers.
Gemini Cat
(2,820 posts)Now I want to see convictions!!
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)madaboutharry
(40,204 posts)That is what it takes.
Robbins
(5,066 posts)This is what happens when you have a prosecutor who is intrested in doing justice not biased towards police.so unlike ferguson.
You want to stop riots and unrest act like this prosecutor.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)yes!
IDemo
(16,926 posts)KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)perp walk in the media glare.
Now who are the real 'thugs'???????
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Justice for Freddy!
Orsino
(37,428 posts)If there are going to be conviction, please please let them be so clean that even Fox doesn't dare dispute them.
H2O Man
(73,528 posts)She is exactly the type of role model that I want my sons and daughters to see.
karynnj
(59,501 posts)drray23
(7,627 posts)Thats a great first step. I am just hoping they will be able to make the charges stick during trial.
It would be a tragedy if all six walk free.
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)malthaussen
(17,184 posts)Possilbly a bit of scapegoating, there, if the stories about the police sending people on wild van trips through the city are true. Although it is surely a righteous indictment.
-- Mal
Hawaii Hiker
(3,165 posts)Has anyone ever heard of 2nd degree depraved heart murder??...
malthaussen
(17,184 posts)It's murder due to irresponsibility and negligence that shows "callous disregard for human life."
-- Mal
calimary
(81,199 posts)"Accountability. You're getting it today."
Evidently so!
She's quite impressive. I would not be surprised to see higher office in her future. Maybe several.
malthaussen
(17,184 posts)Whether she will be elected or appointed, problematic. By her courageous act, she has just made herself the enemy of many entrenched and powerful interests.
-- Mal
project_bluebook
(411 posts)like, make less arrests, stop issuing tickets, ect... to protest the charges?
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,715 posts)of all police departments.
Peace officers, not war officers.
calimary
(81,199 posts)Take their toys away! They CLEARLY do not know how to play safely with them. WWAMD. What would a mom do? What would that mom who yanked her kid forcibly away from the rioting do? Man, I would LOVE to see that!
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,715 posts)without thier police being armed. Google it, others, not you, calimary you seem to know.
There is no reason for our "Peace Officers" to be armed to the teeth as they are.
What the freaking hell are they afraid of?
True answer ....... I believe it's US!
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)this man endured...and the expand that to and entire race and socio economic group, my heart just breaks. What the hell have we allowed?
pinto
(106,886 posts)From start to finish in the whole course of events.