It looks like they are beating Cops to death in the streets of Baltimore.

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Perhaps I don't see the story you are talking about where cops are being killed. I know some have been injured and some bones even broken, am I missing more of the story?
 
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Perhaps I don't see the story you are talking about where cops are being killed. I know some have been injured and some bones even broken, am I missing more of the story?
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I don't have a story, just saw a bit on TV. Seven Cops dead, I think.
 
MarAzul said:
I don't have a story, just saw a bit on TV. Seven Cops dead, I think.
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I'm watching CNN, they refuse to mention anything about the 7 dead police officers. Clearly CNN is supporting the protesters.
 
Clearly its their parents fault. You could put them in jail, but to what end?
 
A grandmother's bones were broken. A pregnant woman was violently thrown to the ground. Millions of dollars were paid out to numerous victims of police brutality.

And almost none of us noticed!

So I join all who say that protests in Baltimore should remain peaceful, and I will continue to withhold judgment about Gray's death until more facts are known.

But I also insist that Baltimore protests are appropriate regardless of what happened to Freddie Gray, as is more federal scrutiny and intervention. Although much was rightly made of Ferguson's racially unrepresentative local leadership, the presence of a black mayor and a diverse city council has not solved Baltimore's police problem, partly because the DOJ responded to revelations of epidemic brutality with less than the full-scale civil rights probe that some residents requested and because Maryland pols have thwarted reform bills urged by city leaders.

There are so many good reasons for locals to be outraged.

The Baltimore Sun's article shows why in detail. And a few choice excerpts are the best beginning in this attempt to contextualize the ongoing protests within recent history.

Let's start with the money.

$5.7 million is the amount the city paid to victims of brutality between 2011 and 2014. And as huge as that figure is, the more staggering number in the article is this one: "Over the past four years, more than 100 people have won court judgments or settlements related to allegations of brutality and civil-rights violations." What tiny percentage of the unjustly beaten win formal legal judgments?

If you're imagining that they were all men in their twenties, think again:

Victims include a 15-year-old boy riding a dirt bike, a 26-year-old pregnant accountant who had witnessed a beating, a 50-year-old woman selling church raffle tickets, a 65-year-old church deacon rolling a cigarette and an 87-year-old grandmother aiding her wounded grandson. Those cases detail a frightful human toll. Officers have battered dozens of residents who suffered broken bones — jaws, noses, arms, legs, ankles — head trauma, organ failure, and even death, coming during questionable arrests. Some residents were beaten while handcuffed; others were thrown to the pavement.

The 87-year-old grandmother was named Venus Green. A former teacher with two college degrees, she spent her retirement years as a foster parent for needy children. She was on her porch one day when her grandson ran up crying for an ambulance.

He'd been shot.

The article goes on to tell her story from a legal document in her successful lawsuit:

Paramedics and police responded to the emergency call, but the white officer became hostile. “What happened? Who shot you?” Green recalled the officer saying to her grandson, according to an 11-page letter in which she detailed the incident for her lawyer. Excerpts from the letter were included in her lawsuit. “You’re lying. You know you were shot inside that house. We ain’t going to help you because you are lying.”

“Mister, he isn’t lying,” replied Green, who had no criminal record. “He came from down that way running, calling me to call the ambulance.”

The officer, who is not identified in the lawsuit, wanted to go into the basement, but Green demanded a warrant. Her grandson kept two dogs downstairs and she feared they would attack. The officer unhooked the lock, but Green latched it. He shoved Green against the wall.

She hit the wooden floor. “Bitch, you ain’t no better than any of the other old black bitches I have locked up,” Green recalled the officer saying as he stood over her. “He pulled me up, pushed me in the dining room over the couch, put his knees in my back, twisted my arms and wrist and put handcuffs on my hands and threw me face down on the couch.”

After pulling Green to her feet, the officer told her she was under arrest. Green complained of pain. “My neck and shoulder are hurting,” Green told him. “Please take these handcuffs off.” An African-American officer then walked in the house, saw her sobbing and asked that the handcuffs be removed since Green wasn’t violent. The cuffs came off, and Green didn’t face any charges. But a broken shoulder tormented her for months.

When pondering the fact that Baltimore paid out $5.7 million in brutality settlements over four years, consider that the payout in this case was just $95,000.

Even animals couldn't escape the brutality of the Baltimore police last year. In July, "Officer Thomas Schmidt, a 24-year veteran assigned to the Emergency Services unit, was placed on paid administrative leave after police say he held down a Shar-Pei while a fellow officer, Jeffrey Bolger, slit the dog's throat." A month later, a Baltimore police officer plead guilty "to a felony animal cruelty charge after he fatally beat and choked his girlfriend's Jack Russell terrier," an August 5 article noted. The very same year, even one of Baltimore's good cops couldn't escape the horror show of dead animals: "Four investigators from agencies outside Baltimore are working to determine who left a dead rat on the car windshield of an officer who was cooperating with prosecutors on a police brutality case."

http://news.aazah.com/content/city-...olice-brutality-settlements-2011#.VT7I8ZM_XIs
 
5.7 in law suites paid. Good.

I wonder what the costs of burning their own neighborhood will cost? I wonder what the settlement costs to the cops will be..

Settled law suites are no excuses. Charges already filed and atoned for are no excuse.
 
MarAzul said:
I don't have a story, just saw a bit on TV. Seven Cops dead, I think.
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uh, Guess that was a bogus report, should have been seven wounded I guess. Then it was upped to 15.

The mayor has put a curfew on starting tomorrow? Tomorrow? I guess she wants to give people time to express their feelings.

How would you like to own a bar in Baltimore? A curfew city wide for a minimum of a week! Geez, what sort of thinking is that?
Go to a movie and be in violation when you get in your car to go home.
 
Or maybe it's Gram Parsons:



barfo
 
It's a disgusting situation all the way around. Cops there have been brazenly using violence and undue force against the public over time, and now many of that public view the cops as the problem and and don't have the respect for the position it should engender. But regardless of past brutalities, everyone who is taking up violence against the cops, burning and looting their cities, are acting just as heinous as the bad cops they profess to protest. Id hate to be a bystander in that city right now.
 


Beat up little seagull
On a marble stair
Tryin' to find the ocean
Lookin' everywhere

Hard times in the city
In a hard town by the sea
Ain't nowhere to run to
There ain't nothin' here for free

Hooker on the corner
Waitin' for a train
Drunk lyin' on the sidewalk
Sleepin' in the rain

And they hide their faces
And they hide their eyes
'Cause the city's dyin'
And they don't know why

Oh Baltimore
Man it's hard just to live
Oh, Baltimore
Man, it's hard just to life, just to live

Get my sister Sandy
And my little brother Ray
Buy a big old wagon
To haul us all away

Live out in the country
Where the mountain's high
Never comin' back here
'Til the day I die

Oh, Baltimore
Man, it's hard just to live
Oh, Baltimore
Man, it's hard just to live, just to live
 
I love Baltimore, but it has some of the toughest neighborhoods I've ever seen. I assume these protests are occurring in West Baltimore.

Burning down one's own neighborhood is the worst kind of nihilism. Ask yourself, how hopeless must you be to do such a thing?
 
maxiep said:
I love Baltimore, but it has some of the toughest neighborhoods I've ever seen. I assume these protests are occurring in West Baltimore.

Burning down one's own neighborhood is the worst kind of nihilism. Ask yourself, how hopeless must you be to do such a thing?
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I think I was only in Baltimore once, visiting a Trucking Company customer. I think their offices were in West Baltimore but the owner had me come to his home. Really nice place on a channel off the bay. He had a sweet 30 foot wooden sailboat moored about 50 feet from his back door. We did our business on the sailboat. Sounds like the right plan.
 
Ah ha! Just saw a clip of a guy named Malik Shabazz speaking to a group in Balitmore recently. His name is a clue in what he is up to. Like Grainiac says above about the devil. Well that is his gig.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/media-fail-to-identify-leader-of-baltimore-riots/
Black Panther, perhaps but here is his real mission.

http://www.timeinmotion.faithweb.com/whats_new.html

There was another black man being interviewed on TV earlier, what he was saying about this riot or what ever these looter are didn't make sense, he thinks they are showing the white man how it is? They need to show him? Damned if I can make sense out of that, they have a Black Mayor, a Black Police chief and a whole lot of Black cops, so what the hell are you showing the White man?

Well the story about the Tribe of Shabazz may hold the clue. We are a little over due on the 70 year grace period.

"This world's days were up in 1914, the devils were granted a 70 year grace period on its time which can collapse any day now."
 
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