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Related: About this forumBaltimore Officers Will Face No Federal Charges in Death of Freddie Gray (The New York Times)
Baltimore Officers Will Face No Federal Charges in Death of Freddie Grayhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/us/freddie-gray-baltimore-police-federal-charges.html
WASHINGTON Six Baltimore police officers will face no federal charges in the death of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man who died of a severe spinal cord injury while in custody, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday.
After an extensive review of this tragic event, conducted by career prosecutors and investigators, the Justice Department concluded that the evidence is insufficient, the department said in a statement, adding that it was unable to prove the officers willfully violated Grays civil rights.
The closure of the criminal civil rights investigation into Mr. Grays death, which prompted unrest in Baltimore, a predominantly black city, and a federal examination of its police departments practices,
means that no officers will be held criminally responsible in his death.
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Baltimore Officers Will Face No Federal Charges in Death of Freddie Gray (The New York Times) (Original Post)
Odoreida
Sep 2017
OP
The safest thing a cop can do these days is murder innocent black people
Eliot Rosewater
Sep 2017
#2
I just had someone who claims to be a democrat ask me for a link when I said the KGB
Eliot Rosewater
Sep 2017
#6
heaven05
(18,124 posts)1. OF COURSE
this is jefferson beauregard davi..........err sessions DOJ.
Eliot Rosewater
(32,536 posts)2. The safest thing a cop can do these days is murder innocent black people
heaven05
(18,124 posts)4. and they
damn sure know it now with no doubt....hell we know what jefferson beauregard davis-sessions will do. We know what their boy-potus told them. Paraphrasing: go full tilt boogie against POC, I won't care. Fuck trump and his klan led DOJ.
Eliot Rosewater
(32,536 posts)6. I just had someone who claims to be a democrat ask me for a link when I said the KGB
stole the election
not safe to talk about it here i guess
heaven05
(18,124 posts)7. well you know the
proper course when dealing with the stealthers here...infiltrating and TRYING to be slick....disregard.
BlueMTexpat
(15,496 posts)3. Will this injustice
never end?
heaven05
(18,124 posts)5. not in the near future
and given historical perspective....probably never without......