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diabeticman

(3,121 posts)
Sun May 3, 2015, 06:22 PM May 2015

WATCH: Fox News Claims Freddie Gray Worked For Police, Arrest Was All An Act (VIDEO)

http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/videos/watch-fox-news-claims-freddie-gray-worked-for-police-arrest-was-all-an-act-video/



This is truly journalism gone horribly wrong. Fox News, with nothing at all to corroborate, invited an anonymous source to tell a story about Freddie Gray that if true would possibly exonerate the officers involved in his death.

The source, who speaks through a voice-scrambler and appears in a blacked out studio, is identified only as “Mike.” He is apparently a police officer, and he tells Meghan Kelly that Gray was “a great witness for us.”

The issue with the interview from any reasonable standpoint is that the witness, who says he spoke with two of the officers since the incident, claims that Freddie frequently “put on a show” to get arrested so he could snitch on people, then explains why officers were forced to pursue him, and it was for their own safety because of Freddie’s violent behavior that he wasn’t seatbelted into the van.



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WATCH: Fox News Claims Freddie Gray Worked For Police, Arrest Was All An Act (VIDEO) (Original Post) diabeticman May 2015 OP
Good one! Human101948 May 2015 #1
Why didn't they give him one of those fabulous police funerals? Human101948 May 2015 #2
After the Abner Louima incident, many of my NYPD friends were claiming alcibiades_mystery May 2015 #3
Rumors and stories like this nadinbrzezinski May 2015 #5
Ok, Ok I will bite nadinbrzezinski May 2015 #4
You summed it up correctly brush May 2015 #6
 

Human101948

(3,457 posts)
2. Why didn't they give him one of those fabulous police funerals?
Sun May 3, 2015, 06:26 PM
May 2015

Last edited Sun May 3, 2015, 07:20 PM - Edit history (1)

With all the cops showing up from five surrounding states wearing their little white gloves.

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
3. After the Abner Louima incident, many of my NYPD friends were claiming
Sun May 3, 2015, 06:27 PM
May 2015

that the club outside of which Louima was arrested was a notorious "gay S&M" club, and that his injuries were not from being attacked by Officer Justin Volpe and crew in the precinct house, but from "consensual rough sex" in the club. Heard that from three separate NYPD officers, one of which didn't know the others at all.

Needless to say, the story was abject bullshit, but it's remarkable what the cops and cop humpers will invent to erase their own criminality.

Justin Volpe, by the way, is 17 years into a 30 year sentence in federal prison.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
5. Rumors and stories like this
Sun May 3, 2015, 06:31 PM
May 2015

spread like wild fire at the stations. It is quite frankly normal human behavior. Cops, like anybody else, do not want to fate the fact that they work inside a culture that... to put it mildly, is quite sick.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
4. Ok, Ok I will bite
Sun May 3, 2015, 06:29 PM
May 2015

he was a snitch (though I know what they are trying to do, but ok, he was... let's accept this one for a second), That does not change the fact that a nickel ride was used and that he is dead.

Now what they are trying to do is change the story line and set the stage for a jury trial. They already played their hand. They will put Freddie Gray on the stand.

brush

(53,740 posts)
6. You summed it up correctly
Sun May 3, 2015, 06:38 PM
May 2015

Gray is DEAD while in their custody. They can't get around that.

He's dead.

Somebody is going to pay because that young prosecutor is no joke.

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