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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTeen Rioter Faces Higher Bail Than Baltimore Cops Accused of Murder
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/29954-teen-rioter-faces-higher-bail-than-baltimore-cops-accused-of-murderAllen Bullock, a Baltimore teen arrested for smashing a police car window with a traffic cone amid the Freddie Gray protests last week, is reportedly being held on a higher bail than the officers charged on Friday in Grays death.
Bullock, 18, who voluntarily surrendered to authorities at the urging of his parents, is being held on $500,000 bail, while the six officers accused in the Gray case were held on a range of $250,000 to $350,000, according to the Associated Press. NBC News has confirmed that all six officers arrested for Grays death have since been bailed out. Bail hearings are not open to the public in the state of Maryland.
It is just so much money, Bullocks mom, Bobbi Smallwood, told the British newspaper The Guardian. Who could afford to pay that?
After Bullocks illegal act was captured on camera and broadcast nationwide, he was shamed by relatives, including his stepfather Maurice Hawkins. By turning himself in, he also let me know he was growing as a man and he recognized what he did was wrong, Hawkins told The Guardian in the same interview.
Still, Smallwood believes that the fee for Bullocks release is ridiculous.
I think that that goes to continuing strained police-community relations, F. Michael Higginbotham, a law professor at the University of Baltimore, told NBC station WBAL of Baltimore. We need to take a step back and say, OK, how do we go forward from here? What is the way to improve police-community relations, not exacerbate it? he said. I think these high bail amounts will exacerbate it.
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Teen Rioter Faces Higher Bail Than Baltimore Cops Accused of Murder (Original Post)
eridani
May 2015
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JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)1. Doncha know?
That window's life was in danger.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)2. Justus system is a tax on the poor
and it is criminal.
smokey nj
(43,853 posts)3. You got that right