Video Reveals Baltimore Corrections Officers Were Looting During Freddie Gray Protests

[LiberalArkie]

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/video-reveals-baltimore-corrections-officers-were-looting-during-freddie-gray



Three Baltimore police officers were accused of theft in two separate investigations — including two charged after being caught on video looting a store during the unrest that followed the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray.

According to the Baltimore Sun, correction officers Tamika Cobb and Kendra Richard were suspended without pay after footage showed them exiting a local convenience store holding Slim Jims and Tostitos chips on April 25.

That same day, riots broke out in the city after six hours of peaceful protests calling for charges to be filed against the officers who arrested Gray earlier that month. Six officers were later charged in connection wih Gray’s death.

Both Cobb and Richard were assigned to corrections facilities downtown, near the site of the unrest. They face charges of burglary and theft, and bail was set for each of them at $35,000.

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. It takes a special kind of stupid to risk your job

over stealing a slim jim and a bag of chips.

[Scootaloo]

3. It's not a job you get on the merit of your brains, you know

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. Understood

But still.

[madville]

5. Remember the New Orleans officers

During Katrina, loading up their police car with shoes.