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| Baltimore police routinely violated rights: U.S. Justice Department |
| 2016-08-10 |
| [Reuters] The Baltimore Police Department has routinely violated the constitutional rights of residents, according to a U.S. Justice Department investigation stemming from the death of black detainee Freddie Gray last year. The Justice Department probe, which will be officially released at a news conference in Baltimore on Wednesday morning, was launched shortly after Gray's death in April 2015. Police had arrested Gray, 25, for fleeing unprovoked in a high-crime area. He suffered a neck injury in a police wagon while shackled and handcuffed, and died a week later. The incident triggered rioting and protests in Baltimore, a majority-black city of about 620,000 people. It fueled a national debate on police tactics and stoked the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. The Justice Department's 163-page report found that the Baltimore Police Department has routinely made unconstitutional stops, searches and arrests, and these illegal practices have disproportionately affected the city's black residents. Police have also engaged in a pattern of using excessive force and retaliated against people engaging in constitutionally protected expression, the investigation found. "This pattern or practice is driven by systemic deficiencies in BPD's policies, training, supervision, and accountability structures that fail to equip officers with the tools they need to police effectively and within the bounds of the federal law," the report said. A spokesman for the Baltimore Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Six officers were charged in Gray's death, but four trials ended without a conviction. Prosecutors dropped the remaining charges last month. Nothing at all to do with acquittals and dropped charges of the officers involved in the Freddie Gray case, nothing at all. Why do you ask ? |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 Municipal Motto: "Baltimore: South Chicago is our future." |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2016-08-10 21:41 |
| #5 Given the pop in Baltimore murder rate, it appears the citizenry of Baltimore are routinely violating the basic civil rights of other citizens. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-08-10 18:18 |
| #4 Give em what they want. Quit policing the black areas, just fence em in |
| Posted by: Frank G on the road 2016-08-10 13:18 |
| #3 You mean the DOJ really cares about citizen rights and the Constitution. After watching WJC and Lynch's meeting and after watching Comey build the case against Hillary and then pull out at the last minute, I've got serious doubts. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-08-10 07:40 |
| #2 How about Boston? Manchester, NH? Seems rather selective that Baltimore's so close to the centralized power structure, which means these guys may have a point. |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-08-10 01:03 |
| #1 I would love to see the same DoJ "investigators" that "probed" the Baltimore Police Department patrol downtown Balt'more on a Saturday night. They would wet their panties. Hypocrites. |
| Posted by: Tennessee 2016-08-10 00:14 |