Baltimore Riots

[Jenksismyhero]

All charges against the remaining officers have been dropped.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/27/us/freddie-g...cers/index.html

[Balta1701]

Well, Freddie Gray officially didn't matter.

[bmags]

Truly can't believe criminal negligence or manslaughter could again not be proven. Justice is never done. But hey, baltimore, you get to pay millions instead! Punish the citizenry, protect the perpetrators.

[greg775]

Truly can't believe criminal negligence or manslaughter could again not be proven. Justice is never done. But hey, baltimore, you get to pay millions instead! Punish the citizenry, protect the perpetrators.

How is Baltimore reacting?

[Balta1701]

So have people attention to the stuff that has come out that this group at the Baltimore police department was doing, their "Gun task force"? The police will probably go to jail but they'll go to jail for defrauding the city by charging them too much overtime and stealing drug and money evidence.

 

The other stuff is the kind of stuff that would make you question an entire department. Some of their tactics included finding crowds of african american men on the street, flooring their accelerators at the crowds, opening their doors, and chasing and arresting whoever ran away from the cars driving straight at them. They picked out certain cars, particularly hondas, as cars they'd make up excuses to pull over to search for drugs. Stopping african american males for carrying bags and arresting them if they didn't allow a search. They all also apparently carried fake guns to plant on suspects.

[BigSqwert]

So have people attention to the stuff that has come out that this group at the Baltimore police department was doing, their "Gun task force"? The police will probably go to jail but they'll go to jail for defrauding the city by charging them too much overtime and stealing drug and money evidence.

 

The other stuff is the kind of stuff that would make you question an entire department. Some of their tactics included finding crowds of african american men on the street, flooring their accelerators at the crowds, opening their doors, and chasing and arresting whoever ran away from the cars driving straight at them. They picked out certain cars, particularly hondas, as cars they'd make up excuses to pull over to search for drugs. Stopping african american males for carrying bags and arresting them if they didn't allow a search. They all also apparently carried fake guns to plant on suspects.

 

It's not systemic. Maybe one or two bad apples. SMH

[StrangeSox]

So have people attention to the stuff that has come out that this group at the Baltimore police department was doing, their "Gun task force"? The police will probably go to jail but they'll go to jail for defrauding the city by charging them too much overtime and stealing drug and money evidence.

 

The other stuff is the kind of stuff that would make you question an entire department. Some of their tactics included finding crowds of african american men on the street, flooring their accelerators at the crowds, opening their doors, and chasing and arresting whoever ran away from the cars driving straight at them. They picked out certain cars, particularly hondas, as cars they'd make up excuses to pull over to search for drugs. Stopping african american males for carrying bags and arresting them if they didn't allow a search. They all also apparently carried fake guns to plant on suspects.

 

The testimony coming out of the trial has been wild.

 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/...0129-story.html

In October 2015, when a drug distribution crew in Northeast Baltimore learned of a rival who they believed had drugs and cash at his apartment, they called the police.

 

They weren't reporting the rival to turn him in. They wanted the officers' help robbing him.

 

One of the dealers had grown up with Gun Trace Task Force Detective Momodu Gondo, who said his partner, Detective Jemell Rayam "had experience" with doing home invasions.

 

"I had considered doing a fake search warrant, that way no violence would be involved, and confiscate the money," Rayam testified. His co-conspirators "had other ideas -- that we'd just run up in there, so that's how we did it.

 

"The plan was to run up, and steal the money, and if they had to, kill the individuals."

 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/...0130-story.html

A convicted former Baltimore police detective broke down on the witness stand Tuesday when asked about an incident in which the FBI secretly recorded members of the Gun Trace Task Force as they fled the scene of a car crash and spoke of falsifying their time sheets to make it seem that they were never there.

 

and a big twitter thread from earlier in the case here

 

https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/955901888939032582

[BigSqwert]

Still waiting for Greg to criticize the Eagles fans for blocking streets all night long. What if an ambulance needed to get through?!?! He's probably too outraged to comment.

[pettie4sox]

Still waiting for Greg to criticize the Eagles fans for blocking streets all night long. What if an ambulance needed to get through?!?! He's probably too outraged to comment.

 

They were flipping cars, setting stores on fire, and vandalizing convenient stores.

[StrangeSox]

The New York Times

@nytimes

$100,000 taken from a safe. Garbage bags full of stolen prescription drugs dumped on the black market. A motorist robbed of $25,000. The crimes were not carried out by normal criminals, but by Baltimore police officers.

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/us/balti...s&smtyp=cur

 

BALTIMORE — One hundred thousand dollars taken from a safe.

 

Garbage bags full of stolen prescription drugs dumped on the black market.

 

A motorist robbed of $25,000.

 

The crimes were not carried out by normal criminals, but by Baltimore police officers. They are among the dozens of revelations in one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation. In a trial in Baltimore federal court, witnesses and even the officers themselves have described an elite squad gone rogue, taking every opportunity to rob those they were supposed to be policing or protecting, and barely bothering to cover up their deeds.

 

The daily disclosures of dangerous, embarrassing and shameless acts come at a particularly bad time for the Baltimore Police Department, which is battling a runaway crime problem in an environment already poisoned by deep mistrust in the police.

 

The department was in fact under investigation by the federal government for systemic civil rights violations while the officers carried out many of their crimes — which include selling seized guns and drugs back onto the streets, sending innocent people to jail, recruiting civilians to rob drug dealers and using GPS devices to track and rob the innocent.

 

Six officers have pleaded guilty; four are testifying against the two who are now on trial.

[southsider2k5]

Politicization of law enforcement and justice is straight out of the authoritarian playbook.

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/us/balti...s&smtyp=cur

 

 

Nicely done.

[illinilaw08]

Nicely done.

 

How is that link from SS politicizing anything?

[StrangeSox]

It's not, unless you routinely reject any criticism of the police or their actions out of hand, no matter how egregious, or you're trying to push a false equivalency that Trump and his allies' political attacks on the FBI and DOJ are the same thing as reporting on police corruption in an active court case.