The city has seen 40 shootings since April 28, the day after the city's most intense day of rioting, including 10 on Thursday alone. There also have been 15 homicides in that span, bringing the year's total to 82 — 20 more than at the same time last year.
"In 29 years, I've gone through some bad times, but I've never seen it this bad," said Lt. Kenneth Butler, president of the Vanguard Justice Society, a group for black Baltimore police officers. Officers "feel as though the state's attorney will hang them out to dry."
State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby often notes that she comes from a family with five generations of police officers, and during the announcement of the charges last week stressed they were not "an indictment of the entire force."
On Friday, the attorneys for the six officers charged in Gray's death filed a motion to dismiss the case and asked for the recusal of Mosby, claiming "overzealous prosecution" and an array of conflicts of interest. Mosby said in a statement this week that she would not discuss the pending case, but cautioned that prosecutors have information that supports the charges that has not been made public.
Officers and legal experts said they are concerned about Mosby's contention that Gray was falsely arrested. Mosby said that three officers failed to establish probable cause, as no crime had been committed. She said the knife Gray was carrying was not illegal under Maryland law, making the arrest "illegal."
Former federal prosecutor Jason Weinstein, who held a leadership post in the Justice Department, said the remedy for failing to establish proper probable cause is that "a defendant goes free — not that an officer goes to jail."
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Other cities with black populations are watching this. The unemployed are bored. Any political rhetoric will fan the flames of discontent. Something to do. Democrats have destroyed the family. The very youngest will be the quickest to act this out. Stand down. Act when issue is over. No prevention. No intervention. More likely law enforcement will be the ones prosecuted in this environment. Off hours don't wear uniform. Reduced target of convenience exposure. This applies to Feds, and National guardsmen equally.
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I would imagine that LEOs are standing down and trying to hang on until there is a more police friendly watch in Washington.
I was talking to a friend of mine (LEO) and he said when Obama came to town and they asked for volunteers to protect the route, very few cops wanted to do this.
[LEGALINSURRECTION] Detail on our Baldymore cop lynchings. Andrew Branca is one of the good ones: a lawyer and firearms expert who can also report and write.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] First Lady Michelle Obama urged students at Tuskegee University, a historically black university in Alabama, to remain involved in civic life during a time of tension regarding race relations across the country.
At the school's commencement address, the First Lady listed scenarios in which African-Americans feel they encounter systemic discrimination, such as "nagging worries that you're going to get stopped or pulled over for absolutely no reason." She said those feelings are "real," but disengaging is not an option.
"I want to be very clear that those feelings are not an excuse to just throw up our hands and give up. Not an excuse. They are not an excuse to lose hope. To succumb to feelings of despair and anger only means that in the end, we lose," Obama said.
The comments come a week after violent riots brought Baltimore to a halt following the arrest and death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, a black man who died as a result of injuries sustained during his apprehension. Maryland State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby has charged all six Baltimore Police Department officers involved in Gray's arrest for offenses including second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.
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Black President. Black US and local Attorney General. Black Mayor. Black Chief of Police. Half of the officers charged were black.
This is about keeping the blacks on the plantation by black/Democratic plantation owners.
#2
I mean, imagine, having to abide by the same rules and laws as anybody else!
How terrible!
That is pretty much what her, her husbands
, Eric holder, Rst. Al Sharptons, Rst. Jesse Jackson, Lynch, and others are demanding - that certain people should be exempt from being held responsible for their actions based only on their skin color.
#4
From ambush she leaps with a squeegee,
And, burbling a bit of Respighi,
She spouts revolution!
The awed Institution!
Long fester the whines of Tuskegee!
#5
Hardly invisible when every weekend many Americans watch athletes from a self defined community garner not just scores but pull hundreds of thousand and sometimes millions of dollars in pay, just for entertainment work.
BTW, I thought 'invisible' was a goal of Dr. King's work. Sort of like Asians, aka the new 'white'.
#6
how about we look at your legal records, your husband's records (school and hiring) , your finances? Just like everyone else. Privileged, bitter, incapable, authoritarian, and angry with a wideload is no way to go through life, hon.
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The obvious solution is to continue her husband's policy of unrestricted and massive immigration of other-than-blacks.
#8
To claim that you've seen them is risible;
Michelle and her ass are invisible!
Red tails in the gloamin'
Are just the last omen
This nation's no more indivisible.
Bleah. What can I say? Having a bottom decile day.
[CNN] That's because all us white people are racist, racist to the core. There's nothing we can do to get away from it.
And all those Asians, too. Racist through and through. They're just white folks with funny eyes and chopsticks!
And Latinos. Most of them are racist, too. You know what the Hispanic word for Black is? It's negro! And they won't change it! That's how you can tell they're racists!
And Jo-o-o-o-oze. They got all that money and they're racists. Look at how mean they treat all those Paleostinians, who're colored folk when they're way over there. Let 'em immigrate to this country and they just turn racist right away, of course.
And Africans. You know, those people from Ghana, and Cameroun, and all those other places, they claim they're black but they're white people with really deep tans. They're racists. They come over here and they take black jobs.
But make sure you vote Democrat. If you don't you're racist.
Bitch: sometimes it's a noun, sometimes it's a verb, sometimes it's two, two, two parts of speech in one.
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Could she be thinking of being the first black female POTUS, or are the Obamas preparing for being super-Al?
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Actually Negro is the Spanish word for the Black color. You have negro eyes, a negro car, a negro phone. Then the French (Nègre) and Anglo-Saxons (Niggers) picked the Spanish word, adapted it to respective own vocalistics and used it onb Blacks. Originally it was not derogator.
BTW: in Rusain the polite way to name Blacks is Nyegr and it is the word for the black color (Tchiorniy) that is derogatory and racist.
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Different standard? Yeah, but not the way you meant it you self-entitled bitch. Press has been covering your Marie Antoinette lifestyle so as to keep you from criticism, while endorsing your crude and stupid lunch program and trying to bury the disgust it has been met with.
Michell Obama, go whine somewhere else, you snotty rich socialist asshole.
[NYT] The heavyset 60-year-old man who walked with a cane seemed an unlikely speaker at the glamorous launch party for a cosmetics company held in Santa Monica, Calif., in March.
But Tony Rodham appeared at ease among the special guests and well-heeled investors, offering them encouragement as well as an invitation.
"If there's anything I can ever do for any of you, let me know," Mr. Rodham said. "I'll be more than happy to do it."
A promotional video of the party that the cosmetics company later released identified the speaker as "the youngest brother of former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton," a relationship that has been Mr. Rodham's calling card since the days of the Clinton White House.
On and off for two decades, the affable Mr. Rodham has tried to use his connections with his sister and his brother-in-law, former President Bill Clinton, to further a business career that has seen more failures than successes. The connections to the Clintons have given Mr. Rodham, a self-described "facilitator," a unique appeal and a range of opportunities, like addressing Chinese investor conferences and joining an advisory board of a company seeking permission to mine for gold in Haiti.
But his business dealings have often invited public scrutiny and uncomfortable questions for the Clintons as Mr. Rodham has cycled through a variety of ventures, leveraging his ties to them and sometimes directly seeking their help.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] First Lady Michelle Obama urged students at Tuskegee University, a historically black university in Alabama, to remain involved in civic life during a time of tension regarding race relations across the country.
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