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Odoreida

(1,549 posts)
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 07:27 PM Sep 2017

Baltimore 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 Gray
https://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 Gray’s civil rights.”

The closure of the criminal civil rights investigation into Mr. Gray’s death, which prompted unrest in Baltimore, a predominantly black city, and a federal examination of its police department’s 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
OF COURSE heaven05 Sep 2017 #1
The safest thing a cop can do these days is murder innocent black people Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #2
and they heaven05 Sep 2017 #4
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
well you know the heaven05 Sep 2017 #7
Will this injustice BlueMTexpat Sep 2017 #3
not in the near future heaven05 Sep 2017 #5
 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
4. and they
Sun Sep 17, 2017, 09:43 AM
Sep 2017

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
Sun Sep 17, 2017, 12:28 PM
Sep 2017

stole the election

not safe to talk about it here i guess

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
7. well you know the
Sun Sep 17, 2017, 07:15 PM
Sep 2017

proper course when dealing with the stealthers here...infiltrating and TRYING to be slick....disregard.

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