JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
OTHER BALTIMORE LOOTING-BURNING
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/day-4-of-baltimore-gray-riots-case.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/curfew-and-community-work-togeher-to.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/rioters-criminal-goons-burn-and-loot.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/baltimore-lunatic-rioting-students.html
UPDATE MAY 01,2015-10:30PM
NOW WE FIND OUT GRAY HAD HEROIN AND WEED IN HIS URINE.WHEN THE DRUG TEST CAME BACK FROM THE MEDICAL EXAMINER.WE ALSO FIND OUT THAT GRAY DONE A DRUG TRANSACTION WITH ANOTHER PERSON.AND MONEY WAS EXCHANGED. THEN THE POLICE WENT TO GET GRAY.AND THE OTHER 2 PEOPLE WHO DONE DRUG TRANSACTIONS WITH GRAY.ESCAPED AND RAN OFF.THIS PLACE WERE GRAY WAS ARRESTED.IS THE WORST DRUG AREA IN ALL OF BALTIMORE. AND THERES AT LEAST A DEATH A WEEK IN THE AREA. AND WE NOW FIND OUT THAT THE 2ND PRISON IN THE VAN WITH GRAY MAY HAVE HAD BEEN PRESSURED INTO CHANGING HIS STORY FROM HEARING GRAY TRYING TO HURT HIMSELF.TO HIM NOW SAYING-HE JUST HEARD MAYBE GRAY HITTING HIS HEAD AGAINST THE METAL A COUPLE OF TIMES.OFFICER TELLING US THIS STUFF.SAID MOSBY IS SELLING OUT THE 6 POLICE OFFERS.FOR A POLITICAL REASON.AND TO KEEP THE PEOPLE FROM BURNING BALTIMORE TO THE GROUND.AND SO THE CITIZENS WILL BE SATISFIED AND NOT DESTROY THE CITY.
UPDATE MAY 01,2015-09:16PM
WELL WE HAVE JUST GOT NEW INFORMATION FROM AN OFFICER THAT WORKS WITH ALL 6 ARRESTED OFFICES.HE SAID FREDDIE GRAY WAS LIKE A DOUBLE AGENT OR INFORMANT FOR THE POLICE.THIS UNIDENTIFIED OFFICER SAID. FREDDY PUT ON A SHOW IN FRONT OF HIS FRIENDS.BUT WHEN HE GOT TO THE JAIL.HE SANG LIKE A CANARY.AND GRAY SOLVED A LOT OF VIOLENT CRIMES BY HELPING THE POLICE WITH INFORMANT TIPS.
UPDATE MAY 01,2015-07:16PM-UPDATE BREAKING NEWS
3 OF THE 6 OFFICERS CHARGED ARE BLACK.AND THE DRIVER OF THE POLICE VAN CAESAR GOODSON IS BLACK-ON THE FORCE SINCE 1999 AND HE IS OUT ON BAIL ALREADY.HIS BAIL WAS $350,000 AND HIS FIRST COURT DATE IS MAY 27,2015. WILLIAM PORTER IS BLACK AND BEEN ON THE FORCE SINCE 2012.BRIAN RICE IS WHITE AND A 17 YEARS ON THE FORCE.EDWARD NERO IS WHITE AND BEEN AN OFFICER SINCE 2012.GARRETT MILLER IS WHITE AND ON THE FORCE SINCE 2012.ALICIA WHITE IS BLACK AND BEEN ON THE FORCE SINCE 2010.
FROM THE BALTIMORE SUN-PAMELA WOOD AND SCOTT DANCE-MAY 01,2015
All six officers were in custody and being processed at Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center as of 2 p.m., said Gerard Shields, a spokesman for the department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.
Officer Caesar Goodson Jr., 45, who was the driver of a police van that carried Gray through the streets of Baltimore, was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter, second-degree assault, two vehicular manslaughter charges and misconduct in office. A man who answered the phone at Goodson's home declined to comment and hung up the phone.
Officer William Porter, 25, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault and misconduct in office.
Lt. Brian Rice, 41, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault and misconduct in office.
Sgt. Alicia White, 30, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault and misconduct in office.
Officer Edward Nero, 29, was charged with second-degree assault and misconduct in office.
Officer Garrett Miller, 26, was charged with second-degree assault, misconduct in office and false imprisonment.
If convicted of all charges, Goodson would face up to 63 years in prison, Rice would face up to 30 years and Porter, Nero, Miller and White would face up to 20 years.
Gray suffered a "severe and critical neck injury" as a result of being handcuffed, shackled and not seat-belted in the van, Mosby said.Everything was rushed through to get charges created against these cops to appease the rioters. However, it won't appease them, as their goals are more than protesting Freddie Gray's death. He means nothing to them. They want an excuse to riot. Mosby said an investigation found officers placed Gray in wrist and ankle restraints and left him stomach-down on the floor of a police van as they drove around West Baltimore. On at least five occasions, officers placed Gray in the van or checked on him and failed to secure him, she said. By the time the van reached the Western District police station, he was not breathing and was in cardiac arrest, she said.Mosby called the investigation, which she said began the day after Gray's arrest, "comprehensive, thorough and independent." She worked quickly in filing charges, which came the morning after Baltimore police handed over their investigation to her office. The police investigation was turned over a day earlier than promised.Just before Mosby announced the criminal charges, the Baltimore police union defended the officers involved."Not one of the officers involved in this tragic situation left home in the morning with the anticipation that someone with whom they interacted would not go home that night," Gene Ryan, president of Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3, wrote in a letter to Mosby. "As tragic as this situation is, none of the officers involved are responsible for the death of Mr. Gray."The police union asked Mosby to appoint an independent prosecutor in the case, citing her ties to the Gray family's attorney, William Murphy, as well as her lead prosecutor's connections to members of the local media. Murphy donated $5,000 to Mosby's campaign and served on her transition committee.Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said she is "sickened and heartbroken" over the charges against the officers."No one in our city is above the law," she said. "Justice must apply to all of us equally."Gov. Larry Hogan, who has been in Baltimore all week, said he had no immediate reaction to the officers being charged. He said his sole job is to keep the peace.The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Mosby deserves to be congratulated but cautioned the criminal charges are only a start to a "lengthy process."Everything was rushed through to get charges created against these cops to appease the rioters. However, it won't appease them, as their goals are more than protesting Freddie Gray's death. He means nothing to them. They want an excuse to riot.Shouts of "thank you" and "hallelujah" broke out among bystanders who pressed as close as they could to the media scrum around Mosby.In West Baltimore, cars honked their horns. A man hanging out of a truck window pumped his fists and yelled; "Justice! Justice! Justice!"At the corner where Gray was arrested, 53-year-old Willie Rooks held his hands up in peace signs and screamed, "Justice!"The arrested officers will have their bail set by a court commissioner within 24 hours. If they are not released or cannot post bail, they will go before a judge in District Court the next business day.If they are held, Shields wouldn't say where they would be placed in the jail, citing "security reasons."More statements on the charges are expected over the course of the afternoon. Gray's family and their lawyer are scheduled to speak at 5 p.m.
ATTORNEY MOSBYS PRESS CONFERENCE-6 OFFICERS CHARGED WITH CHARGES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5EIjwn1g6k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmMoH7Vy_CM
URGENT - Baltimore Police Union Defends Officers-cnnPOSTED: 10:58 AM CDT May 01, 2015
(CNN) -- In an open letter to Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, the city police union's president said that "none of the officers involved are responsible for the death of (Freddie) Gray." "To the contrary, at all times, each of the officers diligently balanced their obligations to protect Mr. Gray and discharge their duties to protect the public," wrote Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police President Gene Ryan. Ryan asked in the letter, which came out just before Mosby announced that six officers face charges in Gray's death, that a special independent prosecutor be appointed to look into the case.
UPDATE MAY 01,2015-01:25PM
WELL AFTER BALTIMORE MAYOR STEPHANIE BLAKE MONDAY TOLD THE POLICE TO STEP DOWN AND LET THE KIDS BURN-LOOT-RIOT-DESTROY BALTIMORE.AND REFUSED TO ANSWER FOX NEWS QUESTIONS ABOUT HER DECISION TO LET BALTIMORE BURN MONDAY.SHE WAS SILENCED AND WOULD NOT ANSWER FOX NEWS QUESTIONS.AND SHE WAS PROTECTED BY RACE BATER AL SHARPTON AND HER 2 BODY GUARDS.ONE OF WHICH PUT THEIR HAND IN THE FACE OF THE FOX REPORTER TO GET HIM OUTTA THE MAYORS FACE FROM ASKING HER QUESTIONS. BUT TODAY NOW AT HER PRESS CONFERENCE.SHE WAS STERM-NO TIMIDNESS-COWARDNESS NOW LIKE AGAINST THE FOX REPORTER. SHE BOLDLY SAID SHE WAS GLAD JUSTICE HAS BEEN DONE.AGAINST THE POLICE.SHE BOLDLY SAID THE COMMISIONER WILL DO SOMETHING.AND SHE WAS GLAD THE THUG POLICE OFFICERS WILL GET THEIR DAY IN COURT.SHE SAID THE BAD BRUTALITY, CURRIPTION OF THE BAD THUG POLICE HAS NOW BEEN DONE.
AND ALSO THE 2ND PERSON WHO WAS IN THE POLICE VAN.WAS JUST INTERVIEWED BY CNN.HE SAID HE NEVER HEARD A NOISE IN THE VAN FOR THE 24 MINUTE DRIVE TO THE JAIL.HE ONLY KNEW THERE WAS SOMEBODY ELSE IN THE VAN AFTER HE GOT TO THE JAIL.WERE HE OVER HEARD A COUPLE OF POLICE OFFICERS SAYING. WE SURE GAVE HIM THE RIDE OF HIS LIFE.DIDN'T WE.WE SURE RUFFED HIM UP.OH WOW-THIS WAS EXACTLY WHAT I WROTE ABOUT.THAT IT WAS THE ROUGH RIDE THAT ACCOUNTED FOR THE DEATH OF FREDDIE GRAY.AND LIKE I SAID IN MY COMMENT AT 9:30AM THIS MORNING-I PREDICTED THE DRIVER GOOSON WOULD BE THE ONE TO HAVE THE MOST CHARGES AGAINST HIM.THAT HE WOULD BE THE ONE MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF GRAY.AND GOODSON THE POLICE DRIVER DID GET THE MOST AND HARDEST CHARGES AGAINST HIM OF ALL THE 6 OFFICERS CHARGED.AND 5 OF THE 6 OFFICERS ARE IN CUSTODY ALREADY. ONLY ONE MORE OFFICER TO GET ARRESTED IN THIS INITIAL ARREST CHARGES AGAINST THESE OFFICERS.ATTORNEY MARILYN MOSBY SAID THE MEDICAL EXAMINER AND HOSPITAL RECORDS SAID IT WAS HOMOCIDE.AND THAT WAS THE MAIN REASON SHE BROUGHT THE CHARGES AGAINST THE 6 POLICE OFFICERS.AS WELL AS REFUSING TO GET HIM MEDICAL ATTENTION.AND SHE ALSO SAID IT WAS A RESULT OF HARSH ACTION IN THE POLICE VAN THAT ALSO CAUSED HIS DEATH IN WAYS.
A POLICE VAN LIKE GRAY GOT TRANSPORTED TO JAIL IN.AND UNCONSCIOUS IN AFTER 5 STOPS.-dailymail.co.uk
-usatoday.com-FREDDIE GRAY
UPDATE MAY 01,2015-04:55PM
THE POLICE UNION SAID THIS IS A RUSH TO JUDGEMENT AGAINST THE 6 CHARGED POLICE OFFICERS.THEY ALL SO SAID IT WAS BECAUSE OF ALL THE PRESSURE FROM EVERYBODY MARCHING.ITS MOSTLY A POLITICAL REASON WHY THIS WAS RUSHED SO QUICK BY STATES ATTORNEY MARILYN MOSBY OF BALT IMORE.ITS 4:45PM.THERES THOUSANDS OF CITIZENS IN BALTIMORE OUT IN THE STREETS CHEERING AND CONGRADUALTING EACH OTHER FOR GETTING THE 6 OFFICERS CHARGED WITH VARIOUS OFFENCES.BUT SOME ARE STILL WORRIED. WE WILL NOT HAVE TOTAL JUSTICE.TILL ALL THESE OFFICERS ARE IN JAIL FOR THEIR OFFENCES.THERES ALSO PROTESTS GOING ON IN VARIOUS OTHER CITIES AROUND AMERICA.CHICAGO-OAKLAND-PHILADELPHIA-NEW YORK. AND MORE CITIES.THE ROUGH RIDE HAS A LONG HISTORY IN POLICE FORCES REPORTS SAY.THEY CAN DAMAGE THE PRISONER REAL BAD IF THEY REALLY WANT TO.ITS 4:55PM.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,(sex while married) nor effeminate,(HARDENED SODOMITES) nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards,(ALCOHOLICS) nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
JEREMIAH 17:9
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
FREDDIE GRAY TIMELINE-ARREST TO WESTERN DISTRICT POLICE STATION
POLICE PURSUIT APR 12,15 8:39AM
THE ARREST 8:40AM
THE VAN REQUEST 8:42AM
POLICE STOP THE VAN 8:46AM
STOP #1 8:49AM CHECK ON GRAY
EN ROUTE TO CENTRAL BOOKING 8:54AM
STOP #2 8:54AM-8:59AM
STOP #3 8:59AM CHECK ON GRAY
STOP #4 9:02AM 2ND PRISONER PICKED
AT THE POLICE STATION 9:26AM-MEDICS REQUIRED FOR UNCONSCIOUS GRAY.
UPDATE MAY 01,2015-09:34AM
YESTERDAY I DONE THE SITUATION THAT FREDDIE GRAY KILLED HIMSELF IN THE VAN. TODAY I WILL BE DOING HOW GRAY DIED BECAUSE OF WHAT POLICE CALL THE ROUGH RIDE TREATMENT.HOW THEY GIVE A PRISONER A RUFF RIDE IF HES ACTING UP IN THE PADDY WAGON.BUT ONLY THE POLICE DRIVER WILL BE RESPON SIBLE IN MY SITUATION.THE OTHER 5 OFFICERS WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR GRAYS INJURIES.
BUT BEFORE I DO THE SITUATION.LAST NIGHT WAS DAY 3 CURFEW AT BALTIMORE. ONE PERSON I SEEN GET ARRESTED FOR SCREAMING AT POLICE AND ACTING UP.BUT BY 10:45PM-MOST OF THE CITIZENS WERE OFF THE STREET AND ON THEIR WAY HOME.THERE WAS ONE STRANGE EVEN THOUGH.EITHER A MAN OR WOMAN DRIVER OF A TRANSPORT TRUCK.WAS FOUND KILLED.OR COMMITTED SUICIDE. OR DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES IN THE CAB OF THE TRANSPORT TRUCK.ONLY THE CAB WAS PARKED A BLOCK FROM CVS-PHARMACY-THAT WAS LOOTED AND BURNT OUT LAST MONDAY.POLCE TOOK THE BODY FROM THE SCENE.AND TOLD TV NOT TO FILM THE DEAD BODY.OTHER THEN THAT.NIGHT 3 OF THE CURFEW IN BALTIMORE LOOKED LIKE IT WENT PEACEFUL.I WILL UPDATE NUMBERS OF ARRESTS LATER ON TODAY.NOW TO MY IDEA OF HOW GRAY DIED AT THE HANDS OF THE OFFICER DRIVING THE PADDY WAGON.
ROUGH RIDE DEFINITION
-SUDDEN STOPS.(QUICK)
-SUDDEN STARTS.(QUICK)
-FAST TURNS TO MAKE PRISONER ROLL OFF THE SEAT.
THUG OFFICER DRIVER SCENARIO
OK-SO THE 6 OFFICERS ARREST FREDDIE GRAY AND TAKE HIM TO THE PADDY WAGON.AND PUT HIM INSIDE.WE KNOW HE WAS OK BECAUSE HE STEPPED UP ON THE VAN AND WAS PUT IN THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE POLICE VAN.THEN GRAY WAS OVIOUSLY ACTING UP.HITTING THE WALLS IN THE BACK OF THE VAN WHILE STANDING UP.BECAUSE HE HAD HAND CUFFS ON.BUT HIS FEET WERE FREE TO WANDER THE PADDY WAGON.THEN THE POLICE DRIVER GOT MAD.AND SUDDENLY STOPPED AT THE FIRST STOP.AND TOLD OTHER OFFICERS TO PUT SHACKLES ON HIS LEGS.TO MAKE HIM STOP POUNDING ON THE WALLS AND BACK DOOR.THE OTHER OFFICERS PUT THE SHACKLES ON HIM.AND THE POLICE DRIVER-DROVE ON.THEN OVIOUSLY GRAY WAS STILL POUNDING ON THE WALLS EVEN THOUGH HE WAS SHACKLED AT HIS FEET.AND HAND CUFFS ON.THE POLICE DRIVER THEN STOPPED A 2ND AND 3RD TIMES.TO CHECK OUT GRAY.AND TO TELL HIM.QUIT BANGING ON THE WALLS AND BACK DOOR.WHILE THIS WAS GOING ON BY GRAY IN THE BACK.THE POLICE DRIVER WHO WAS DRIVING THE PADDY WAGON WAS GIVING GRAY A ROUGH RIDE.HE STOPPED SUDDENLY AT STOP LIGHTS.QUICK JERK START UPS AT STOP LIGHTS.AND AROUND THE CORNERS.THE DRIVER WOULD DO SHARP FAST TURNS SO GRAY IN THE BACK WOULD GO FLYING OFF THE BED OR BENCH IN THE BACK.SO THIS WOULD MAKE GRAY MAD WITH THE DRIVER DOING THIS ROUGH RIDE SITUATION.AND GRAY WOULD POUND ON THE WALLS AND DOOR.TO GIVE THE DRIVER POLICE THUG.A HINT.QUIT DOING THIS ROUGH RIDE ON ME.OR I WILL CONTINUE POUNDING ON THE WALLS AND DOOR.THE DRIVER THEN WENT TO THE 4TH STOP.BUT IT WAS TO PICK UP ANOTHER PRISONER.THAT 2ND PRISONER WAS PUT IN THE LEFT COMPARTMENT FOR THE LAST 24 MINUTE RIDE TO THE JAIL.THE DRIVER PROBABLY LOOKED IN ON GRAY FOR THE FINAL TIME.AND TOLD GRAY.QUIT POUNDING ON THE WALLS AND DOOR.OK-SO THE DRIVER GOT IN THE VAN.AND STARTED DRIVING TO THE JAIL.BUT GRAY WAS STILL POUNDING ON THE WALLS AND BACK DOOR OF THE VAN.SO THE POLICE DRIVER WAS REALLY UPSET BY NOW.AND SAID TO HIMSELF.I WILL MAKE SURE THIS SUCKER SHUTS UP WITH THIS POUNDING-THIS TIME.SO AT SOME POINT TO THE JAIL.WHILE GRAY WAS POUNDING NEAR THE BACK DOOR.THE POLICE DRIVER WAS COMING TO A STOP SIGN.THE DRIVER SUDDENLY STOPPED THE VAN FAST.WHICH IN TURN MADE GRAY FALL FACE FIRST INTO THE BACK DOOR OF THE POLICE VAN.AND GRAYS HEAD BANGED INTO THE BOLT ON THE BACK DOOR.HIS HEAD SNAPPED BACK.QUICKLY TWISTING HIS HEAD.AND DAMAGING HIS SPINAL CORD AND THROAT.GRAY WOULD HAVE BEEN THROWN REAL HARD TO THE FLOOR OF THE VAN.AND AS A RESULT OF THE HEAD HIT.AND HIS HEAD TWISTING AS HE HIT THE VAN FLOOR.HE WOULD THEN FALL UNCONCIOUS.NEAR THE BACK DOOR OF THE POLICE VAN.THEN THE POLICE DRIVER OF THE VAN WOULD NOT HEAR ANY MORE BANGING FROM GRAY ON THE WALLS OR THE DOOR.SO THE DRIVER WOULD THINK TO HIMSELF.FINALLY GRAY GOT THE HINT.AND STOPPED BANGING.THEN WHEN THEY FINALLY GOT TO THE JAIL.THE POLICE DRIVER WENT AND OPENED THE DOOR TO THE 2ND PRISONER AND GAVE HIM TO ANOTHER OFFICER TO TAKE HIM TO JAIL.THEN THE DRIVER OPENED UP GRAYS SIDE OF THE POLICE PADDY WAGON.AND SEEN THAT GRAY WAS LAYING FACE DOWN ON THE FLOOR OF THE POLICE VAN.NOT RESPONDING TO ANYTHING THE DRIVER SAYS TO HIM.AND GRAYS BODY MUST HAVE BEEN RIGHT NEAR THE BACK DOOR.WERE HE HIT HIS HEAD ON THE BOLT OF THE BACK DOOR.THE POLICE DRIVER THEN CALLED THE MEDICS.AND TOLD THEM TO COME GET AN UNCONSCIOUS PRISONER AT THE JAIL.AND THIS IS MY THUG POLICE DRIVER SCENARIO.HOW GRAY GOT INJURED-THEN DIED A WEEK LATER IN A COMA IN THE HOSPITAL.
A police transport van in
Baltimore. Such vans have benches along the sides but no seats, and a
partition that separates prisoners from the officers.
Credit
Alex Brandon/Associated Press
UPDATE MAY 01,2015-11:00AM-11:34AM
STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL MARILYN MOSBY IN A SHOCKING ANNOUNCEMENT JUST MINUTES AGO.ANNOUNCED THAT THE 6 POLICE OFFICERS WILL BE CHARGES WITH HOMOCIDE.3 OFFICERS ILLEGALLY ARRESTED GRAY.GRAY HAD A LEGAL KNIFE ON HIM.THE VAN WAS STOPPED 6 TIMES MOSBY SAID.AND GRAY WAS PUT FACE DOWN ON HIS STOMACH AND NOT WATCHED CAREFULLY MOSBY SAID. MOSBY SAID SHE HAD HER INVESTIGATERS ON THE SCENE SINCE DAY ONE.THIS IS SUCH AS SHOCK-BECAUSE MOSBY JUST GOT THE PAPERS YESTERDAY FROM THE POLICE COMMISIONER.AND SHE TOOK THE CASE OVER IN FULL.AND NOW ONE DAY LATER.THE 6 POLICE OFFICERS ARE CHARGED WITH CHARGES FROM FALSE ARREST.TO ALL OUT MURDER CHARGES. MAN SLAUGHTER, ASSAULT,FALSE MIS CONDUCT,2ND DEGREE MURDER-ARE ALL CHARGES AND MORE THESE 6 POLICE OFFICERS WILL BE VARIOUSLY CHARGED WITH.NOW MAYBE THE PEOPLE WILL FINALLY STAY HOME.AND BE SATISFIED.THEY NOW GOT THEIR WISHES.THE OFFICERS WILL BE CHARGED WITH VARIOUS SERIOUS CHARGES.THE WARRANTS HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR THE 6 POLICE OFFICERS.GROSS NEGLIGENCE AND VARIOUS OTHER CHARGES HAVE BEEN LAID.AND THE DRIVER OF THE VAN IS GETTING CHARGED THE WORST OF ALL THE 6 POLICE OFFICERS.THE DRIVER IS CHARCHED WITH MANSLAUGHTER AND VARIOUS OTHER CHARGES.OFFICER GOODSON WAS THE POLICE VAN DRIVER.THE BLACKS ARE SO HAPPY TO HAVE THE POLICE CHARGED IN BALTIMORE.THERES CARS OUT BY THE HUNDREDS ON THE STREETS.HONKING THEIR HORNS.AND BOASTING HOW PROUD THEY ARE THAT THE BLACKS FINALLY GOT JUSTICE AGAINST THE WHITE COPS IN BALTIMORE.ONE BLACK SAID.THIS IS FOR ALL THE BLACKS IN AMERICA.NOT JUST FOR BALT IMORE. THE BLACKS GOT THEIR REVENGE.JUSTICE HAS BEEN DONE FOR BALTIMORE.NOW WE JUST HOPE THAT THE RIOTERS WILL NOT COME OUT IN BALTIMORE AND BURN UP THE CITY BECAUSE THEIR SO HAPPY THE POLICE OFFICERS ARE CHARGED WITH VATIOUS CHARGES INCLUDING 2ND DEGREE MURDER IS SOME CASES.REV WATER SCOTT GIVES GOD ALL THE GLORY FOR THE CHARGES AGAINST THE POLICE OFFICERS.SINCE THIS DECISION JUST CAME FROM NOWHERE SO QUICK.
Freddie Gray Investigation: Six Cops Charged in His Death-NBC NEWS-MAY 1,2015
Baltimore's state's attorney announced Friday that charges will be filed against six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray."I assured his family that no one is above the law and that I would pursue justice on their behalf," Marilyn Mosby said in a press conference on Friday.The charges against the officers include second-degree murder, manslaughter, assault and misconduct in office, among others.These are Mosby's first public comments on the case. Her announcement that her investigation had determined Gray's death was a homicide was met with cheers from Baltimore residents, who have held protests and riots demanding justice for the 25-year-old.Gray was arrested April 12 and died a week later from his injuries. His death has prompted calls for police reform nationwide.Baltimore's police commissioner said Thursday that his department had handed over confidential information on how Gray died to prosecutors. Meanwhile, the Justice Department is also working on its own independent investigation.Mosby said in Friday's news conference that her office had been investigating Gray's death independent of police's investigation."We knew that this was a serious case," she said. "From day one, we investigated. We're not just relying solely on what we were given by the police department."—Elizabeth Chuck-First published May 1st 2015, 10:46 am
State’s attorney: Freddie Gray’s police-custody death a homicide-By BEN NUCKOLS and AMANDA LEE MYERS-Associated Press-May 1, 2015 Updated 11:15AM-THE TRIBUNE.COM
BALTIMORE — State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby says six officers in the police-custody death of Freddie Gray have been charged.One officer faces a second-degree murder charge while the other officers face manslaughter or assault charges, among others.Mosby says the officers failed to get Gray medical help even though he requested it repeatedly after he was arrested April 12. She called his arrest illegal.At some point while he was in custody, he suffered a mysterious spinal injury and died a week later.
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The Baltimore police officers union is asking State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby to appoint a special independent prosecutor for the Freddie Gray death investigation.Fraternal Order of Police local president Gene Ryan told Mosby in a letter Friday that the union is concerned about her ties to Gray family attorney Billy Murphy.Murphy was among Mosby’s biggest campaign contributors last year, donating the maximum individual amount allowed, $4,000, in June. He was also on Mosby’s transition team after the election.The union says none of the six officers suspended in the investigation is responsible for Gray’s death. The 25-year-old black man died one week after suffering a severe spinal cord injury in police custody.
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The state medical examiner’s office says it has sent the autopsy report on Freddie Gray to prosecutors.Officials made the announcement Friday morning. The report is now in the hands of State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby.Spokesman Bruce Goldfarb says the Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner will not release the report publicly while the case is under investigation.Freddie Gray who died April 19 of spinal injuries he suffered while in police custody.This is a developing story. Reported earlier:Baltimore’s chief prosecutor, just 35 years old and on the job for less than four months, is facing the biggest challenge of her career: deciding whether evidence supports criminal charges against police officers in the death of Freddie Gray.State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby ousted an established white opponent by promising to hold police accountable. She accused him of being too cozy with officers and too out of touch with the citizens of Baltimore. Mosby and her husband, a Baltimore city councilman, are black and live just blocks from the poverty-stricken community where riots broke out Monday following Gray’s funeral.But even her supporters say Mosby’s close ties to the community won’t save her from criticism.“She better be ready. It’s going to be baptism by fire,” said J. Wyndal Gordon, a longtime defense attorney in Baltimore who has litigated against officers in excessive-force cases. “How she will handle this will define her administration and the future of that office.”Six officers have been suspended with pay while Mosby decides what to do. Police gave her their internal report Thursday, but her office is conducting its own investigation. She has not announced a timetable for her decision. The state medical examiner’s office said Friday that it had given her office the autopsy report and that it will not release it publicly while the case is under investigation.Mosby grew up in Boston and met her husband, Councilman Nick Mosby, while they were students at Tuskegee University in Alabama. After clerking at U.S. Attorney’s offices in Boston and Washington, she joined the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office in 2005 and moved up the ranks before leaving to work for an insurance company. She defeated incumbent Gregg Bernstein, who outraised her three-to-one, in last June’s Democratic primary, and faced only write-in opposition in the general election.Her official biography declares that “she is the youngest chief prosecutor of any major city in America.”“I think it’s very unique that a chief prosecutor who – as young as she is, who lives in a community that has a high amount of violence – that’s very unique and she’s probably the only one in the entire country,” Nick Mosby said. “She’s from the inner city, she lives in the inner city, she knows the inner city.”Mosby has three legal options: charge the officers, decline to charge them or seek a grand jury indictment.Practically speaking, she is almost certain to seek an indictment, said Andrew Levy, a Baltimore defense attorney and an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Law.Charging the officers without going to a grand jury would require Mosby’s office to persuade a judge that there is probable cause that a crime was committed, a procedural step prosecutors often avoid in high-profile cases. Declining to charge the officers could be seen as a betrayal by the protesters who have flooded city streets since Gray’s death.Mosby could present a grand jury with a menu of potential charges including assault, involuntary or voluntary manslaughter, or even murder. Juries in Baltimore criminal trials tend to be distrustful of police officers, an attitude that could work in Mosby’s favor if she decides the officers committed crimes.“The conventional wisdom would be that a Baltimore city grand jury would not be reluctant to indict a police officer,” Levy said.Some of her critics say her campaign pledges and political success could compromise justice in the Gray case.Warren Brown, a veteran Baltimore defense attorney who supported Mosby’s opponent, said the prosecutor’s decision would be inextricably linked to her and her husband’s political aspirations. He said Mosby is being pressured to indict the officers on murder or voluntary manslaughter charges in Gray’s death, which he doesn’t think the evidence supports.“She is a politician; her husband is a politician. This is a watershed event,” Brown said. “There’s a lot of collateral damage if she does not indict. For her and her husband, they would be drummed out of office. There’s no way they could survive in the city, let alone ask people to vote for them at a later date. She’s going to find a way.”Brown and Ivan Bates, a former prosecutor and a current defense attorney in Baltimore, both expressed concerns about Mosby’s ties to the attorney representing Gray’s family, Billy Murphy.Murphy was among Mosby’s biggest campaign contributors last year, donating the maximum individual amount allowed, $4,000, in June. He was also on Mosby’s transition team after the election, and Bates described him as a mentor to her.“I think she has too much pressure to not indict, from the pressure of her husband’s constituents, of her mentor Billy Murphy, and of the pressure of making sure she wants to hold on to her job in four years,” Bates said. “She’s going to feel the need to indict.”Mosby’s office did not respond to interview requests. In a statement Thursday, she said her office was still investigating and pleaded with the public for patience.When she was elected in November, Mosby told The Daily Record newspaper she was excited for the opportunity “to change what has happened in the community.”“I’m living out my dream to reform the criminal justice system,” said Mosby, whose parents and grandfather were all police officers. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake expressed confidence in Mosby on Thursday, while also welcoming a separate investigation by the U.S. Justice Department, now led by Attorney General Loretta Lynch.“If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can’t get justice and healing for this community, you tell me where we’re going to get it in our country,” the mayor said.Mosby’s record in high- profile cases has been mixed thus far.In January, the morning after she was sworn into office, she announced manslaughter charges against an Episcopal bishop in the hit-and-run death of a cyclist. The bishop, Heather Cook, had not even been arrested when Mosby told a packed news conference that Cook had been drunkenly text-messaging at the time of the crash.Mosby failed, however, to obtain a third trial for a man accused in the slaying of a teenage honor student from North Carolina. Defense attorneys said the re- indictment violated Constitutional protections against double jeopardy, and a judge threw it out. Her office is pursuing an appeal.Mosby was also criticized for firing several veteran prosecutors, some of them in the middle of trials. But she drew praise from lawyers for her leadership team.Clergy protesting at her office Wednesday afternoon said they have faith in the prosecutor, but they are demanding swift justice and transparency.“I support Marilyn Mosby. But now we have to step up and do what we ran on,” said the Rev. Delman Coates, a liberal activist who ran last year for Maryland lieutenant governor. “It’s about substance, not symbolism. It’s not about campaign slogans. It’s about delivering for the people.”–––Follow Ben Nuckols on Twitter at https://twitter.com/APBenNuckols .Follow Amanda Lee Myers on Twitter at https://twitter.com/AmandaLeeAP .
Freddie Gray’s Injury and the Police ‘Rough Ride’-By MANNY FERNANDEZAPRIL 30, 2015-By The New York Times.
In Baltimore, they call it a “rough ride.” In Philadelphia, they had another name for it that hints at the age of the practice — a “nickel ride,” a reference to old-time amusement park rides that cost five cents. Other cities called them joy rides.The slang terms mask a dark tradition of police misconduct in which suspects, seated or lying face down and in handcuffs in the back of a police wagon, are jolted and battered by an intentionally rough and bumpy ride that can do as much damage as a police baton without an officer having to administer a blow.The exact cause of the spinal injury that Freddie Gray, 25, sustained while in police custody in Baltimore before his death April 19 has not been made clear. The police have said that he was not strapped into a seatbelt, a violation of department policy. That has led some to wonder whether he was deliberately left unbuckled, reminiscent of a practice that while little known has left a brutal, costly legacy of severe injuries and multimillion-dollar settlements throughout the country.Residents of Baltimore describe their experience with “rough” rides in police vans. By Gabe Dinsmoor and Steve Ercolani on Publish Date April 30, 2015.A lawyer for the Baltimore police union and news reports Thursday focused on Mr. Gray’s ride in the back of the van after his arrest by Baltimore officers on April 12. “Our position is something happened inside that van,” the lawyer, Michael E. Davey, said at a news conference last week. “We just don’t know what.”Determining exactly how Mr. Gray was injured will be a focus of the investigation. Even if it happened in the van, it does not necessarily point toward an intentional rough ride, a ritual experts said was at least several decades old. “I never saw it, but I’ve heard about it,” said Bernard K. Melekian, the undersheriff of Santa Barbara County, Calif., and a former director of the Justice Department’s community-oriented policing office. “My sense was that that kind of behavior had long been gone.”
The tradition was regarded as a technique by aggressive officers to inflict punishment on those they arrested without ever being accused of physically assaulting them with their weapons or hands. For a suspect with hands cuffed behind him, seated on a thin bench in the back of a speeding police van, a sudden stop or a sharp turn or a bumpy road can cause severe injuries that can leave a person in a wheelchair or disfigured for life.One June night in 1980, Freddie Franklin was walking on 75th Street in Chicago with a friend when he said that a group of police officers wrongfully arrested him, placed him in handcuffs and forced him into the back of a wagon. Two officers drove the van recklessly, to throw him around the floor of the van, he said in a federal lawsuit. According to court documents, by the time Mr. Franklin arrived at the police station, he had bitten off his lower lip.A still from a video made by a bystander at Freddie Gray's arrest. The police say he was not in a seatbelt, making some wonder if he was taken on a “rough ride.”“It’s sort of a retaliatory gesture,” said Robert W. Klotz, a police-procedures expert and former deputy chief of police of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington. “It’s one of those nebulous type of things where the individual feels they’ve been subjected to it because they’ve been mouthy. The officers say they have no intent in doing anything. It winds up in a he said-she said situation.”Lawyers and police experts said it was impossible to know how widespread the rough-riding practice has been throughout the country. Allegations have surfaced over the years in cities large and small.In 1999, a former police chaplain in Aurora, Ill., a city of nearly 200,000 outside Chicago, filed a civil rights lawsuit accusing the police department there of making it a common practice for drivers to stop suddenly to injure handcuffed suspects. Police leaders denied the allegations, but the suit was later settled.In 2001, The Philadelphia Inquirer published a series of articles detailing injuries sustained by 20 victims of so-called nickel rides. The victims were paid $2.3 million in city legal settlements, although no officer had ever been disciplined for the practice. In response, the police commissioner at the time, John F. Timoney, banned the use of all police wagons not equipped with seatbelts or safety padding.In Chicago, the American Civil Liberties Union represented Mr. Franklin in the federal lawsuit he filed against six police officers, alleging injuries that required two reconstructive operations on his mouth. Although the city’s lawyers denied the officers had done anything wrong, the city settled the lawsuit for $135,000.At least two other Baltimore men, Jeffrey Alston and Dondi Johnson, were paralyzed after police van rides in separate cases that led to lawsuits. Mr. Alston, paralyzed from the neck down, settled for $6 million in 2004.Experts said that nationally, the tradition was no longer as prevalent as it once was. Many departments now require officers to place suspects riding in vans in seatbelts or other restraints. Some agencies use vans that allow prisoners with their hands cuffed behind their backs to hold on to belts behind them. And public scrutiny of police misconduct has helped reform agencies that might have once tolerated or ignored complaints of rough van rides.“I don’t believe this is standard operating procedure,” said Hubert Williams, a former police director of Newark, who is a consultant with the nonprofit Independent Institute. “What’s been happening through the years is that the police have changed. Policing by and large through the years has become more community-oriented and more accountable to the public. But that does not dispose of these questions. I think the absence of accountability is the reason they occur.”A version of this article appears in print on May 1, 2015, on page A18 of the New York edition with the headline: Rides That Have Served as Hard-to-Prove Retribution for the Police.
Protesters ready for May Day march over black man's death in Baltimore-Reuters By Scott Malone and Ian Simpson-MAY 1,15-YAHOONEWS
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Protesters and the family of a 25-year-old black man who died of injuries sustained while in police custody planned a May Day march in Baltimore as they demanded answers and punishment for the officers involved.Freddie Gray's death is the latest in a string of incidents exposing the tense relations between U.S. minorities and police. Protesters planned to use annual May 1 marches, marking International Labor Day, to focus attention on the case, which follows the killings of unarmed black men in recent months.Police in Baltimore turned over their report on the case a day earlier to prosecutors but released few details publicly, though local media reports suggested Gray may have been injured while he was in the back of a police van.After rioting in Baltimore on Monday, protests have spread to major cities around the United States, resembling scenes of outrage sparked last year by police killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, New York and elsewhere.Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, a black woman who is the daughter and granddaughter of police officers, has now taken over the investigation to determine what exactly happened to Gray and whether any of the six officers involved in his arrest should face criminal charges. The six have been suspended from duty.Mosby said her office has been conducting its own independent probe. The U.S. Justice Department is also investigating the case."All I want her to do is one thing: Search for the truth," said U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings, a Democrat who has been a fixture in the largely peaceful protests that followed Monday's rioting. "We must allow the process to go forward."Gray suffered spinal injuries some time between his April 12 arrest and his arrival at a police station. Police have said Gray was not restrained during the ride, a violation of department policies. He died a week later.Despite the protests, many questions about Gray's death remain unanswered. But media reports on Thursday provided possible accounts of what may have happened.Multiple law enforcement sources told local broadcaster WJLA that the medical examiner found Gray's neck appeared to have broken when his head slammed into the back of the van. He also suffered a head wound matching a bolt jutting from the vehicle's back door, the sources told the station.The Washington Post cited a prisoner, who rode in the police van with Gray but could not see him, as saying he heard sounds that suggested Gray tried to hurt himself while riding in the vehicle, according to a document written by a police investigator.Many on the streets of Baltimore were skeptical of the idea that Gray's injuries were self-inflicted."The police did that," said Eugene Russell, 46. "And the police are going to get away with it."
'KAFKA-ESQUE NIGHTMARE'
Roughly 270 people have been arrested since Monday's violence - which saw stores looted, dozens of buildings and cars burned, and numerous officers injured - and officials have since imposed a citywide 10:00 p.m. curfew.Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said on Wednesday that more than 100 people had been released without being charged, because officials could not keep up with the paperwork, though he said charges would be brought later.But public defender Marci Tarrant Johnson described the conditions endured by many of the arrestees before their release in a Facebook posting Wednesday that has since gone viral. Johnson wrote that many had been illegally detained for more than 24 hours and that women she interviewed had taken to using slices of bread served as part of their meals as pillows."Interviewing these women was emotionally exhausting. Quite a few of them began crying - so happy to finally see someone who might know why they were there, or perhaps how they might get out of this Kafka-esque nightmare," she wrote."The cells were designed to hold people for a few hours, not a few days," she said.Baltimore police and the state's Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services could not be immediately reached on Friday morning to comment on the allegations.The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that one of the officers involved in Gray's arrest had been hospitalized three years ago over mental health concerns. The report could not be independently confirmed.(Writing by Curtis Skinner; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
OTHER BALTIMORE LOOTING-BURNING
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/day-4-of-baltimore-gray-riots-case.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/curfew-and-community-work-togeher-to.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/rioters-criminal-goons-burn-and-loot.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/baltimore-lunatic-rioting-students.html
UPDATE MAY 01,2015-10:30PM
NOW WE FIND OUT GRAY HAD HEROIN AND WEED IN HIS URINE.WHEN THE DRUG TEST CAME BACK FROM THE MEDICAL EXAMINER.WE ALSO FIND OUT THAT GRAY DONE A DRUG TRANSACTION WITH ANOTHER PERSON.AND MONEY WAS EXCHANGED. THEN THE POLICE WENT TO GET GRAY.AND THE OTHER 2 PEOPLE WHO DONE DRUG TRANSACTIONS WITH GRAY.ESCAPED AND RAN OFF.THIS PLACE WERE GRAY WAS ARRESTED.IS THE WORST DRUG AREA IN ALL OF BALTIMORE. AND THERES AT LEAST A DEATH A WEEK IN THE AREA. AND WE NOW FIND OUT THAT THE 2ND PRISON IN THE VAN WITH GRAY MAY HAVE HAD BEEN PRESSURED INTO CHANGING HIS STORY FROM HEARING GRAY TRYING TO HURT HIMSELF.TO HIM NOW SAYING-HE JUST HEARD MAYBE GRAY HITTING HIS HEAD AGAINST THE METAL A COUPLE OF TIMES.OFFICER TELLING US THIS STUFF.SAID MOSBY IS SELLING OUT THE 6 POLICE OFFERS.FOR A POLITICAL REASON.AND TO KEEP THE PEOPLE FROM BURNING BALTIMORE TO THE GROUND.AND SO THE CITIZENS WILL BE SATISFIED AND NOT DESTROY THE CITY.
UPDATE MAY 01,2015-09:16PM
WELL WE HAVE JUST GOT NEW INFORMATION FROM AN OFFICER THAT WORKS WITH ALL 6 ARRESTED OFFICES.HE SAID FREDDIE GRAY WAS LIKE A DOUBLE AGENT OR INFORMANT FOR THE POLICE.THIS UNIDENTIFIED OFFICER SAID. FREDDY PUT ON A SHOW IN FRONT OF HIS FRIENDS.BUT WHEN HE GOT TO THE JAIL.HE SANG LIKE A CANARY.AND GRAY SOLVED A LOT OF VIOLENT CRIMES BY HELPING THE POLICE WITH INFORMANT TIPS.
UPDATE MAY 01,2015-07:16PM-UPDATE BREAKING NEWS
3 OF THE 6 OFFICERS CHARGED ARE BLACK.AND THE DRIVER OF THE POLICE VAN CAESAR GOODSON IS BLACK-ON THE FORCE SINCE 1999 AND HE IS OUT ON BAIL ALREADY.HIS BAIL WAS $350,000 AND HIS FIRST COURT DATE IS MAY 27,2015. WILLIAM PORTER IS BLACK AND BEEN ON THE FORCE SINCE 2012.BRIAN RICE IS WHITE AND A 17 YEARS ON THE FORCE.EDWARD NERO IS WHITE AND BEEN AN OFFICER SINCE 2012.GARRETT MILLER IS WHITE AND ON THE FORCE SINCE 2012.ALICIA WHITE IS BLACK AND BEEN ON THE FORCE SINCE 2010.
www.wbaltv.com-Sgt. Alicia White, Lt. Brian Rice, Officer William Porter, Officer Edward Nero,Garrett Miller,and police driver Caesar Goodson Jr. in order from top left to bottom right.
FROM THE BALTIMORE SUN-PAMELA WOOD AND SCOTT DANCE-MAY 01,2015
All six officers were in custody and being processed at Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center as of 2 p.m., said Gerard Shields, a spokesman for the department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.
Officer Caesar Goodson Jr., 45, who was the driver of a police van that carried Gray through the streets of Baltimore, was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter, second-degree assault, two vehicular manslaughter charges and misconduct in office. A man who answered the phone at Goodson's home declined to comment and hung up the phone.
Officer William Porter, 25, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault and misconduct in office.
Lt. Brian Rice, 41, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault and misconduct in office.
Sgt. Alicia White, 30, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault and misconduct in office.
Officer Edward Nero, 29, was charged with second-degree assault and misconduct in office.
Officer Garrett Miller, 26, was charged with second-degree assault, misconduct in office and false imprisonment.
If convicted of all charges, Goodson would face up to 63 years in prison, Rice would face up to 30 years and Porter, Nero, Miller and White would face up to 20 years.
Gray suffered a "severe and critical neck injury" as a result of being handcuffed, shackled and not seat-belted in the van, Mosby said.Everything was rushed through to get charges created against these cops to appease the rioters. However, it won't appease them, as their goals are more than protesting Freddie Gray's death. He means nothing to them. They want an excuse to riot. Mosby said an investigation found officers placed Gray in wrist and ankle restraints and left him stomach-down on the floor of a police van as they drove around West Baltimore. On at least five occasions, officers placed Gray in the van or checked on him and failed to secure him, she said. By the time the van reached the Western District police station, he was not breathing and was in cardiac arrest, she said.Mosby called the investigation, which she said began the day after Gray's arrest, "comprehensive, thorough and independent." She worked quickly in filing charges, which came the morning after Baltimore police handed over their investigation to her office. The police investigation was turned over a day earlier than promised.Just before Mosby announced the criminal charges, the Baltimore police union defended the officers involved."Not one of the officers involved in this tragic situation left home in the morning with the anticipation that someone with whom they interacted would not go home that night," Gene Ryan, president of Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3, wrote in a letter to Mosby. "As tragic as this situation is, none of the officers involved are responsible for the death of Mr. Gray."The police union asked Mosby to appoint an independent prosecutor in the case, citing her ties to the Gray family's attorney, William Murphy, as well as her lead prosecutor's connections to members of the local media. Murphy donated $5,000 to Mosby's campaign and served on her transition committee.Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said she is "sickened and heartbroken" over the charges against the officers."No one in our city is above the law," she said. "Justice must apply to all of us equally."Gov. Larry Hogan, who has been in Baltimore all week, said he had no immediate reaction to the officers being charged. He said his sole job is to keep the peace.The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Mosby deserves to be congratulated but cautioned the criminal charges are only a start to a "lengthy process."Everything was rushed through to get charges created against these cops to appease the rioters. However, it won't appease them, as their goals are more than protesting Freddie Gray's death. He means nothing to them. They want an excuse to riot.Shouts of "thank you" and "hallelujah" broke out among bystanders who pressed as close as they could to the media scrum around Mosby.In West Baltimore, cars honked their horns. A man hanging out of a truck window pumped his fists and yelled; "Justice! Justice! Justice!"At the corner where Gray was arrested, 53-year-old Willie Rooks held his hands up in peace signs and screamed, "Justice!"The arrested officers will have their bail set by a court commissioner within 24 hours. If they are not released or cannot post bail, they will go before a judge in District Court the next business day.If they are held, Shields wouldn't say where they would be placed in the jail, citing "security reasons."More statements on the charges are expected over the course of the afternoon. Gray's family and their lawyer are scheduled to speak at 5 p.m.
ATTORNEY MOSBYS PRESS CONFERENCE-6 OFFICERS CHARGED WITH CHARGES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5EIjwn1g6k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmMoH7Vy_CM
URGENT - Baltimore Police Union Defends Officers-cnnPOSTED: 10:58 AM CDT May 01, 2015
(CNN) -- In an open letter to Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, the city police union's president said that "none of the officers involved are responsible for the death of (Freddie) Gray." "To the contrary, at all times, each of the officers diligently balanced their obligations to protect Mr. Gray and discharge their duties to protect the public," wrote Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police President Gene Ryan. Ryan asked in the letter, which came out just before Mosby announced that six officers face charges in Gray's death, that a special independent prosecutor be appointed to look into the case.
UPDATE MAY 01,2015-01:25PM
WELL AFTER BALTIMORE MAYOR STEPHANIE BLAKE MONDAY TOLD THE POLICE TO STEP DOWN AND LET THE KIDS BURN-LOOT-RIOT-DESTROY BALTIMORE.AND REFUSED TO ANSWER FOX NEWS QUESTIONS ABOUT HER DECISION TO LET BALTIMORE BURN MONDAY.SHE WAS SILENCED AND WOULD NOT ANSWER FOX NEWS QUESTIONS.AND SHE WAS PROTECTED BY RACE BATER AL SHARPTON AND HER 2 BODY GUARDS.ONE OF WHICH PUT THEIR HAND IN THE FACE OF THE FOX REPORTER TO GET HIM OUTTA THE MAYORS FACE FROM ASKING HER QUESTIONS. BUT TODAY NOW AT HER PRESS CONFERENCE.SHE WAS STERM-NO TIMIDNESS-COWARDNESS NOW LIKE AGAINST THE FOX REPORTER. SHE BOLDLY SAID SHE WAS GLAD JUSTICE HAS BEEN DONE.AGAINST THE POLICE.SHE BOLDLY SAID THE COMMISIONER WILL DO SOMETHING.AND SHE WAS GLAD THE THUG POLICE OFFICERS WILL GET THEIR DAY IN COURT.SHE SAID THE BAD BRUTALITY, CURRIPTION OF THE BAD THUG POLICE HAS NOW BEEN DONE.
AND ALSO THE 2ND PERSON WHO WAS IN THE POLICE VAN.WAS JUST INTERVIEWED BY CNN.HE SAID HE NEVER HEARD A NOISE IN THE VAN FOR THE 24 MINUTE DRIVE TO THE JAIL.HE ONLY KNEW THERE WAS SOMEBODY ELSE IN THE VAN AFTER HE GOT TO THE JAIL.WERE HE OVER HEARD A COUPLE OF POLICE OFFICERS SAYING. WE SURE GAVE HIM THE RIDE OF HIS LIFE.DIDN'T WE.WE SURE RUFFED HIM UP.OH WOW-THIS WAS EXACTLY WHAT I WROTE ABOUT.THAT IT WAS THE ROUGH RIDE THAT ACCOUNTED FOR THE DEATH OF FREDDIE GRAY.AND LIKE I SAID IN MY COMMENT AT 9:30AM THIS MORNING-I PREDICTED THE DRIVER GOOSON WOULD BE THE ONE TO HAVE THE MOST CHARGES AGAINST HIM.THAT HE WOULD BE THE ONE MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF GRAY.AND GOODSON THE POLICE DRIVER DID GET THE MOST AND HARDEST CHARGES AGAINST HIM OF ALL THE 6 OFFICERS CHARGED.AND 5 OF THE 6 OFFICERS ARE IN CUSTODY ALREADY. ONLY ONE MORE OFFICER TO GET ARRESTED IN THIS INITIAL ARREST CHARGES AGAINST THESE OFFICERS.ATTORNEY MARILYN MOSBY SAID THE MEDICAL EXAMINER AND HOSPITAL RECORDS SAID IT WAS HOMOCIDE.AND THAT WAS THE MAIN REASON SHE BROUGHT THE CHARGES AGAINST THE 6 POLICE OFFICERS.AS WELL AS REFUSING TO GET HIM MEDICAL ATTENTION.AND SHE ALSO SAID IT WAS A RESULT OF HARSH ACTION IN THE POLICE VAN THAT ALSO CAUSED HIS DEATH IN WAYS.
A POLICE VAN LIKE GRAY GOT TRANSPORTED TO JAIL IN.AND UNCONSCIOUS IN AFTER 5 STOPS.-dailymail.co.ukUPDATE MAY 01,2015-04:55PM
THE POLICE UNION SAID THIS IS A RUSH TO JUDGEMENT AGAINST THE 6 CHARGED POLICE OFFICERS.THEY ALL SO SAID IT WAS BECAUSE OF ALL THE PRESSURE FROM EVERYBODY MARCHING.ITS MOSTLY A POLITICAL REASON WHY THIS WAS RUSHED SO QUICK BY STATES ATTORNEY MARILYN MOSBY OF BALT IMORE.ITS 4:45PM.THERES THOUSANDS OF CITIZENS IN BALTIMORE OUT IN THE STREETS CHEERING AND CONGRADUALTING EACH OTHER FOR GETTING THE 6 OFFICERS CHARGED WITH VARIOUS OFFENCES.BUT SOME ARE STILL WORRIED. WE WILL NOT HAVE TOTAL JUSTICE.TILL ALL THESE OFFICERS ARE IN JAIL FOR THEIR OFFENCES.THERES ALSO PROTESTS GOING ON IN VARIOUS OTHER CITIES AROUND AMERICA.CHICAGO-OAKLAND-PHILADELPHIA-NEW YORK. AND MORE CITIES.THE ROUGH RIDE HAS A LONG HISTORY IN POLICE FORCES REPORTS SAY.THEY CAN DAMAGE THE PRISONER REAL BAD IF THEY REALLY WANT TO.ITS 4:55PM.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,(sex while married) nor effeminate,(HARDENED SODOMITES) nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards,(ALCOHOLICS) nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
JEREMIAH 17:9
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
FREDDIE GRAY TIMELINE-ARREST TO WESTERN DISTRICT POLICE STATION
POLICE PURSUIT APR 12,15 8:39AM
THE ARREST 8:40AM
THE VAN REQUEST 8:42AM
POLICE STOP THE VAN 8:46AM
STOP #1 8:49AM CHECK ON GRAY
EN ROUTE TO CENTRAL BOOKING 8:54AM
STOP #2 8:54AM-8:59AM
STOP #3 8:59AM CHECK ON GRAY
STOP #4 9:02AM 2ND PRISONER PICKED
AT THE POLICE STATION 9:26AM-MEDICS REQUIRED FOR UNCONSCIOUS GRAY.
The van transporting Freddie Gray after his April 12 arrest
made four stops en route to the Western District police station.- By The New York Times
UPDATE MAY 01,2015-09:34AM
YESTERDAY I DONE THE SITUATION THAT FREDDIE GRAY KILLED HIMSELF IN THE VAN. TODAY I WILL BE DOING HOW GRAY DIED BECAUSE OF WHAT POLICE CALL THE ROUGH RIDE TREATMENT.HOW THEY GIVE A PRISONER A RUFF RIDE IF HES ACTING UP IN THE PADDY WAGON.BUT ONLY THE POLICE DRIVER WILL BE RESPON SIBLE IN MY SITUATION.THE OTHER 5 OFFICERS WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR GRAYS INJURIES.
BUT BEFORE I DO THE SITUATION.LAST NIGHT WAS DAY 3 CURFEW AT BALTIMORE. ONE PERSON I SEEN GET ARRESTED FOR SCREAMING AT POLICE AND ACTING UP.BUT BY 10:45PM-MOST OF THE CITIZENS WERE OFF THE STREET AND ON THEIR WAY HOME.THERE WAS ONE STRANGE EVEN THOUGH.EITHER A MAN OR WOMAN DRIVER OF A TRANSPORT TRUCK.WAS FOUND KILLED.OR COMMITTED SUICIDE. OR DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES IN THE CAB OF THE TRANSPORT TRUCK.ONLY THE CAB WAS PARKED A BLOCK FROM CVS-PHARMACY-THAT WAS LOOTED AND BURNT OUT LAST MONDAY.POLCE TOOK THE BODY FROM THE SCENE.AND TOLD TV NOT TO FILM THE DEAD BODY.OTHER THEN THAT.NIGHT 3 OF THE CURFEW IN BALTIMORE LOOKED LIKE IT WENT PEACEFUL.I WILL UPDATE NUMBERS OF ARRESTS LATER ON TODAY.NOW TO MY IDEA OF HOW GRAY DIED AT THE HANDS OF THE OFFICER DRIVING THE PADDY WAGON.
ROUGH RIDE DEFINITION
-SUDDEN STOPS.(QUICK)
-SUDDEN STARTS.(QUICK)
-FAST TURNS TO MAKE PRISONER ROLL OFF THE SEAT.
THUG OFFICER DRIVER SCENARIO
OK-SO THE 6 OFFICERS ARREST FREDDIE GRAY AND TAKE HIM TO THE PADDY WAGON.AND PUT HIM INSIDE.WE KNOW HE WAS OK BECAUSE HE STEPPED UP ON THE VAN AND WAS PUT IN THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE POLICE VAN.THEN GRAY WAS OVIOUSLY ACTING UP.HITTING THE WALLS IN THE BACK OF THE VAN WHILE STANDING UP.BECAUSE HE HAD HAND CUFFS ON.BUT HIS FEET WERE FREE TO WANDER THE PADDY WAGON.THEN THE POLICE DRIVER GOT MAD.AND SUDDENLY STOPPED AT THE FIRST STOP.AND TOLD OTHER OFFICERS TO PUT SHACKLES ON HIS LEGS.TO MAKE HIM STOP POUNDING ON THE WALLS AND BACK DOOR.THE OTHER OFFICERS PUT THE SHACKLES ON HIM.AND THE POLICE DRIVER-DROVE ON.THEN OVIOUSLY GRAY WAS STILL POUNDING ON THE WALLS EVEN THOUGH HE WAS SHACKLED AT HIS FEET.AND HAND CUFFS ON.THE POLICE DRIVER THEN STOPPED A 2ND AND 3RD TIMES.TO CHECK OUT GRAY.AND TO TELL HIM.QUIT BANGING ON THE WALLS AND BACK DOOR.WHILE THIS WAS GOING ON BY GRAY IN THE BACK.THE POLICE DRIVER WHO WAS DRIVING THE PADDY WAGON WAS GIVING GRAY A ROUGH RIDE.HE STOPPED SUDDENLY AT STOP LIGHTS.QUICK JERK START UPS AT STOP LIGHTS.AND AROUND THE CORNERS.THE DRIVER WOULD DO SHARP FAST TURNS SO GRAY IN THE BACK WOULD GO FLYING OFF THE BED OR BENCH IN THE BACK.SO THIS WOULD MAKE GRAY MAD WITH THE DRIVER DOING THIS ROUGH RIDE SITUATION.AND GRAY WOULD POUND ON THE WALLS AND DOOR.TO GIVE THE DRIVER POLICE THUG.A HINT.QUIT DOING THIS ROUGH RIDE ON ME.OR I WILL CONTINUE POUNDING ON THE WALLS AND DOOR.THE DRIVER THEN WENT TO THE 4TH STOP.BUT IT WAS TO PICK UP ANOTHER PRISONER.THAT 2ND PRISONER WAS PUT IN THE LEFT COMPARTMENT FOR THE LAST 24 MINUTE RIDE TO THE JAIL.THE DRIVER PROBABLY LOOKED IN ON GRAY FOR THE FINAL TIME.AND TOLD GRAY.QUIT POUNDING ON THE WALLS AND DOOR.OK-SO THE DRIVER GOT IN THE VAN.AND STARTED DRIVING TO THE JAIL.BUT GRAY WAS STILL POUNDING ON THE WALLS AND BACK DOOR OF THE VAN.SO THE POLICE DRIVER WAS REALLY UPSET BY NOW.AND SAID TO HIMSELF.I WILL MAKE SURE THIS SUCKER SHUTS UP WITH THIS POUNDING-THIS TIME.SO AT SOME POINT TO THE JAIL.WHILE GRAY WAS POUNDING NEAR THE BACK DOOR.THE POLICE DRIVER WAS COMING TO A STOP SIGN.THE DRIVER SUDDENLY STOPPED THE VAN FAST.WHICH IN TURN MADE GRAY FALL FACE FIRST INTO THE BACK DOOR OF THE POLICE VAN.AND GRAYS HEAD BANGED INTO THE BOLT ON THE BACK DOOR.HIS HEAD SNAPPED BACK.QUICKLY TWISTING HIS HEAD.AND DAMAGING HIS SPINAL CORD AND THROAT.GRAY WOULD HAVE BEEN THROWN REAL HARD TO THE FLOOR OF THE VAN.AND AS A RESULT OF THE HEAD HIT.AND HIS HEAD TWISTING AS HE HIT THE VAN FLOOR.HE WOULD THEN FALL UNCONCIOUS.NEAR THE BACK DOOR OF THE POLICE VAN.THEN THE POLICE DRIVER OF THE VAN WOULD NOT HEAR ANY MORE BANGING FROM GRAY ON THE WALLS OR THE DOOR.SO THE DRIVER WOULD THINK TO HIMSELF.FINALLY GRAY GOT THE HINT.AND STOPPED BANGING.THEN WHEN THEY FINALLY GOT TO THE JAIL.THE POLICE DRIVER WENT AND OPENED THE DOOR TO THE 2ND PRISONER AND GAVE HIM TO ANOTHER OFFICER TO TAKE HIM TO JAIL.THEN THE DRIVER OPENED UP GRAYS SIDE OF THE POLICE PADDY WAGON.AND SEEN THAT GRAY WAS LAYING FACE DOWN ON THE FLOOR OF THE POLICE VAN.NOT RESPONDING TO ANYTHING THE DRIVER SAYS TO HIM.AND GRAYS BODY MUST HAVE BEEN RIGHT NEAR THE BACK DOOR.WERE HE HIT HIS HEAD ON THE BOLT OF THE BACK DOOR.THE POLICE DRIVER THEN CALLED THE MEDICS.AND TOLD THEM TO COME GET AN UNCONSCIOUS PRISONER AT THE JAIL.AND THIS IS MY THUG POLICE DRIVER SCENARIO.HOW GRAY GOT INJURED-THEN DIED A WEEK LATER IN A COMA IN THE HOSPITAL.
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STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL MARILYN MOSBY IN A SHOCKING ANNOUNCEMENT JUST MINUTES AGO.ANNOUNCED THAT THE 6 POLICE OFFICERS WILL BE CHARGES WITH HOMOCIDE.3 OFFICERS ILLEGALLY ARRESTED GRAY.GRAY HAD A LEGAL KNIFE ON HIM.THE VAN WAS STOPPED 6 TIMES MOSBY SAID.AND GRAY WAS PUT FACE DOWN ON HIS STOMACH AND NOT WATCHED CAREFULLY MOSBY SAID. MOSBY SAID SHE HAD HER INVESTIGATERS ON THE SCENE SINCE DAY ONE.THIS IS SUCH AS SHOCK-BECAUSE MOSBY JUST GOT THE PAPERS YESTERDAY FROM THE POLICE COMMISIONER.AND SHE TOOK THE CASE OVER IN FULL.AND NOW ONE DAY LATER.THE 6 POLICE OFFICERS ARE CHARGED WITH CHARGES FROM FALSE ARREST.TO ALL OUT MURDER CHARGES. MAN SLAUGHTER, ASSAULT,FALSE MIS CONDUCT,2ND DEGREE MURDER-ARE ALL CHARGES AND MORE THESE 6 POLICE OFFICERS WILL BE VARIOUSLY CHARGED WITH.NOW MAYBE THE PEOPLE WILL FINALLY STAY HOME.AND BE SATISFIED.THEY NOW GOT THEIR WISHES.THE OFFICERS WILL BE CHARGED WITH VARIOUS SERIOUS CHARGES.THE WARRANTS HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR THE 6 POLICE OFFICERS.GROSS NEGLIGENCE AND VARIOUS OTHER CHARGES HAVE BEEN LAID.AND THE DRIVER OF THE VAN IS GETTING CHARGED THE WORST OF ALL THE 6 POLICE OFFICERS.THE DRIVER IS CHARCHED WITH MANSLAUGHTER AND VARIOUS OTHER CHARGES.OFFICER GOODSON WAS THE POLICE VAN DRIVER.THE BLACKS ARE SO HAPPY TO HAVE THE POLICE CHARGED IN BALTIMORE.THERES CARS OUT BY THE HUNDREDS ON THE STREETS.HONKING THEIR HORNS.AND BOASTING HOW PROUD THEY ARE THAT THE BLACKS FINALLY GOT JUSTICE AGAINST THE WHITE COPS IN BALTIMORE.ONE BLACK SAID.THIS IS FOR ALL THE BLACKS IN AMERICA.NOT JUST FOR BALT IMORE. THE BLACKS GOT THEIR REVENGE.JUSTICE HAS BEEN DONE FOR BALTIMORE.NOW WE JUST HOPE THAT THE RIOTERS WILL NOT COME OUT IN BALTIMORE AND BURN UP THE CITY BECAUSE THEIR SO HAPPY THE POLICE OFFICERS ARE CHARGED WITH VATIOUS CHARGES INCLUDING 2ND DEGREE MURDER IS SOME CASES.REV WATER SCOTT GIVES GOD ALL THE GLORY FOR THE CHARGES AGAINST THE POLICE OFFICERS.SINCE THIS DECISION JUST CAME FROM NOWHERE SO QUICK.
Freddie Gray Investigation: Six Cops Charged in His Death-NBC NEWS-MAY 1,2015
Baltimore's state's attorney announced Friday that charges will be filed against six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray."I assured his family that no one is above the law and that I would pursue justice on their behalf," Marilyn Mosby said in a press conference on Friday.The charges against the officers include second-degree murder, manslaughter, assault and misconduct in office, among others.These are Mosby's first public comments on the case. Her announcement that her investigation had determined Gray's death was a homicide was met with cheers from Baltimore residents, who have held protests and riots demanding justice for the 25-year-old.Gray was arrested April 12 and died a week later from his injuries. His death has prompted calls for police reform nationwide.Baltimore's police commissioner said Thursday that his department had handed over confidential information on how Gray died to prosecutors. Meanwhile, the Justice Department is also working on its own independent investigation.Mosby said in Friday's news conference that her office had been investigating Gray's death independent of police's investigation."We knew that this was a serious case," she said. "From day one, we investigated. We're not just relying solely on what we were given by the police department."—Elizabeth Chuck-First published May 1st 2015, 10:46 am
State’s attorney: Freddie Gray’s police-custody death a homicide-By BEN NUCKOLS and AMANDA LEE MYERS-Associated Press-May 1, 2015 Updated 11:15AM-THE TRIBUNE.COM
BALTIMORE — State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby says six officers in the police-custody death of Freddie Gray have been charged.One officer faces a second-degree murder charge while the other officers face manslaughter or assault charges, among others.Mosby says the officers failed to get Gray medical help even though he requested it repeatedly after he was arrested April 12. She called his arrest illegal.At some point while he was in custody, he suffered a mysterious spinal injury and died a week later.
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The Baltimore police officers union is asking State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby to appoint a special independent prosecutor for the Freddie Gray death investigation.Fraternal Order of Police local president Gene Ryan told Mosby in a letter Friday that the union is concerned about her ties to Gray family attorney Billy Murphy.Murphy was among Mosby’s biggest campaign contributors last year, donating the maximum individual amount allowed, $4,000, in June. He was also on Mosby’s transition team after the election.The union says none of the six officers suspended in the investigation is responsible for Gray’s death. The 25-year-old black man died one week after suffering a severe spinal cord injury in police custody.
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The state medical examiner’s office says it has sent the autopsy report on Freddie Gray to prosecutors.Officials made the announcement Friday morning. The report is now in the hands of State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby.Spokesman Bruce Goldfarb says the Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner will not release the report publicly while the case is under investigation.Freddie Gray who died April 19 of spinal injuries he suffered while in police custody.This is a developing story. Reported earlier:Baltimore’s chief prosecutor, just 35 years old and on the job for less than four months, is facing the biggest challenge of her career: deciding whether evidence supports criminal charges against police officers in the death of Freddie Gray.State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby ousted an established white opponent by promising to hold police accountable. She accused him of being too cozy with officers and too out of touch with the citizens of Baltimore. Mosby and her husband, a Baltimore city councilman, are black and live just blocks from the poverty-stricken community where riots broke out Monday following Gray’s funeral.But even her supporters say Mosby’s close ties to the community won’t save her from criticism.“She better be ready. It’s going to be baptism by fire,” said J. Wyndal Gordon, a longtime defense attorney in Baltimore who has litigated against officers in excessive-force cases. “How she will handle this will define her administration and the future of that office.”Six officers have been suspended with pay while Mosby decides what to do. Police gave her their internal report Thursday, but her office is conducting its own investigation. She has not announced a timetable for her decision. The state medical examiner’s office said Friday that it had given her office the autopsy report and that it will not release it publicly while the case is under investigation.Mosby grew up in Boston and met her husband, Councilman Nick Mosby, while they were students at Tuskegee University in Alabama. After clerking at U.S. Attorney’s offices in Boston and Washington, she joined the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office in 2005 and moved up the ranks before leaving to work for an insurance company. She defeated incumbent Gregg Bernstein, who outraised her three-to-one, in last June’s Democratic primary, and faced only write-in opposition in the general election.Her official biography declares that “she is the youngest chief prosecutor of any major city in America.”“I think it’s very unique that a chief prosecutor who – as young as she is, who lives in a community that has a high amount of violence – that’s very unique and she’s probably the only one in the entire country,” Nick Mosby said. “She’s from the inner city, she lives in the inner city, she knows the inner city.”Mosby has three legal options: charge the officers, decline to charge them or seek a grand jury indictment.Practically speaking, she is almost certain to seek an indictment, said Andrew Levy, a Baltimore defense attorney and an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Law.Charging the officers without going to a grand jury would require Mosby’s office to persuade a judge that there is probable cause that a crime was committed, a procedural step prosecutors often avoid in high-profile cases. Declining to charge the officers could be seen as a betrayal by the protesters who have flooded city streets since Gray’s death.Mosby could present a grand jury with a menu of potential charges including assault, involuntary or voluntary manslaughter, or even murder. Juries in Baltimore criminal trials tend to be distrustful of police officers, an attitude that could work in Mosby’s favor if she decides the officers committed crimes.“The conventional wisdom would be that a Baltimore city grand jury would not be reluctant to indict a police officer,” Levy said.Some of her critics say her campaign pledges and political success could compromise justice in the Gray case.Warren Brown, a veteran Baltimore defense attorney who supported Mosby’s opponent, said the prosecutor’s decision would be inextricably linked to her and her husband’s political aspirations. He said Mosby is being pressured to indict the officers on murder or voluntary manslaughter charges in Gray’s death, which he doesn’t think the evidence supports.“She is a politician; her husband is a politician. This is a watershed event,” Brown said. “There’s a lot of collateral damage if she does not indict. For her and her husband, they would be drummed out of office. There’s no way they could survive in the city, let alone ask people to vote for them at a later date. She’s going to find a way.”Brown and Ivan Bates, a former prosecutor and a current defense attorney in Baltimore, both expressed concerns about Mosby’s ties to the attorney representing Gray’s family, Billy Murphy.Murphy was among Mosby’s biggest campaign contributors last year, donating the maximum individual amount allowed, $4,000, in June. He was also on Mosby’s transition team after the election, and Bates described him as a mentor to her.“I think she has too much pressure to not indict, from the pressure of her husband’s constituents, of her mentor Billy Murphy, and of the pressure of making sure she wants to hold on to her job in four years,” Bates said. “She’s going to feel the need to indict.”Mosby’s office did not respond to interview requests. In a statement Thursday, she said her office was still investigating and pleaded with the public for patience.When she was elected in November, Mosby told The Daily Record newspaper she was excited for the opportunity “to change what has happened in the community.”“I’m living out my dream to reform the criminal justice system,” said Mosby, whose parents and grandfather were all police officers. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake expressed confidence in Mosby on Thursday, while also welcoming a separate investigation by the U.S. Justice Department, now led by Attorney General Loretta Lynch.“If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can’t get justice and healing for this community, you tell me where we’re going to get it in our country,” the mayor said.Mosby’s record in high- profile cases has been mixed thus far.In January, the morning after she was sworn into office, she announced manslaughter charges against an Episcopal bishop in the hit-and-run death of a cyclist. The bishop, Heather Cook, had not even been arrested when Mosby told a packed news conference that Cook had been drunkenly text-messaging at the time of the crash.Mosby failed, however, to obtain a third trial for a man accused in the slaying of a teenage honor student from North Carolina. Defense attorneys said the re- indictment violated Constitutional protections against double jeopardy, and a judge threw it out. Her office is pursuing an appeal.Mosby was also criticized for firing several veteran prosecutors, some of them in the middle of trials. But she drew praise from lawyers for her leadership team.Clergy protesting at her office Wednesday afternoon said they have faith in the prosecutor, but they are demanding swift justice and transparency.“I support Marilyn Mosby. But now we have to step up and do what we ran on,” said the Rev. Delman Coates, a liberal activist who ran last year for Maryland lieutenant governor. “It’s about substance, not symbolism. It’s not about campaign slogans. It’s about delivering for the people.”–––Follow Ben Nuckols on Twitter at https://twitter.com/APBenNuckols .Follow Amanda Lee Myers on Twitter at https://twitter.com/AmandaLeeAP .
Freddie Gray’s Injury and the Police ‘Rough Ride’-By MANNY FERNANDEZAPRIL 30, 2015-By The New York Times.
In Baltimore, they call it a “rough ride.” In Philadelphia, they had another name for it that hints at the age of the practice — a “nickel ride,” a reference to old-time amusement park rides that cost five cents. Other cities called them joy rides.The slang terms mask a dark tradition of police misconduct in which suspects, seated or lying face down and in handcuffs in the back of a police wagon, are jolted and battered by an intentionally rough and bumpy ride that can do as much damage as a police baton without an officer having to administer a blow.The exact cause of the spinal injury that Freddie Gray, 25, sustained while in police custody in Baltimore before his death April 19 has not been made clear. The police have said that he was not strapped into a seatbelt, a violation of department policy. That has led some to wonder whether he was deliberately left unbuckled, reminiscent of a practice that while little known has left a brutal, costly legacy of severe injuries and multimillion-dollar settlements throughout the country.Residents of Baltimore describe their experience with “rough” rides in police vans. By Gabe Dinsmoor and Steve Ercolani on Publish Date April 30, 2015.A lawyer for the Baltimore police union and news reports Thursday focused on Mr. Gray’s ride in the back of the van after his arrest by Baltimore officers on April 12. “Our position is something happened inside that van,” the lawyer, Michael E. Davey, said at a news conference last week. “We just don’t know what.”Determining exactly how Mr. Gray was injured will be a focus of the investigation. Even if it happened in the van, it does not necessarily point toward an intentional rough ride, a ritual experts said was at least several decades old. “I never saw it, but I’ve heard about it,” said Bernard K. Melekian, the undersheriff of Santa Barbara County, Calif., and a former director of the Justice Department’s community-oriented policing office. “My sense was that that kind of behavior had long been gone.”
The tradition was regarded as a technique by aggressive officers to inflict punishment on those they arrested without ever being accused of physically assaulting them with their weapons or hands. For a suspect with hands cuffed behind him, seated on a thin bench in the back of a speeding police van, a sudden stop or a sharp turn or a bumpy road can cause severe injuries that can leave a person in a wheelchair or disfigured for life.One June night in 1980, Freddie Franklin was walking on 75th Street in Chicago with a friend when he said that a group of police officers wrongfully arrested him, placed him in handcuffs and forced him into the back of a wagon. Two officers drove the van recklessly, to throw him around the floor of the van, he said in a federal lawsuit. According to court documents, by the time Mr. Franklin arrived at the police station, he had bitten off his lower lip.A still from a video made by a bystander at Freddie Gray's arrest. The police say he was not in a seatbelt, making some wonder if he was taken on a “rough ride.”“It’s sort of a retaliatory gesture,” said Robert W. Klotz, a police-procedures expert and former deputy chief of police of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington. “It’s one of those nebulous type of things where the individual feels they’ve been subjected to it because they’ve been mouthy. The officers say they have no intent in doing anything. It winds up in a he said-she said situation.”Lawyers and police experts said it was impossible to know how widespread the rough-riding practice has been throughout the country. Allegations have surfaced over the years in cities large and small.In 1999, a former police chaplain in Aurora, Ill., a city of nearly 200,000 outside Chicago, filed a civil rights lawsuit accusing the police department there of making it a common practice for drivers to stop suddenly to injure handcuffed suspects. Police leaders denied the allegations, but the suit was later settled.In 2001, The Philadelphia Inquirer published a series of articles detailing injuries sustained by 20 victims of so-called nickel rides. The victims were paid $2.3 million in city legal settlements, although no officer had ever been disciplined for the practice. In response, the police commissioner at the time, John F. Timoney, banned the use of all police wagons not equipped with seatbelts or safety padding.In Chicago, the American Civil Liberties Union represented Mr. Franklin in the federal lawsuit he filed against six police officers, alleging injuries that required two reconstructive operations on his mouth. Although the city’s lawyers denied the officers had done anything wrong, the city settled the lawsuit for $135,000.At least two other Baltimore men, Jeffrey Alston and Dondi Johnson, were paralyzed after police van rides in separate cases that led to lawsuits. Mr. Alston, paralyzed from the neck down, settled for $6 million in 2004.Experts said that nationally, the tradition was no longer as prevalent as it once was. Many departments now require officers to place suspects riding in vans in seatbelts or other restraints. Some agencies use vans that allow prisoners with their hands cuffed behind their backs to hold on to belts behind them. And public scrutiny of police misconduct has helped reform agencies that might have once tolerated or ignored complaints of rough van rides.“I don’t believe this is standard operating procedure,” said Hubert Williams, a former police director of Newark, who is a consultant with the nonprofit Independent Institute. “What’s been happening through the years is that the police have changed. Policing by and large through the years has become more community-oriented and more accountable to the public. But that does not dispose of these questions. I think the absence of accountability is the reason they occur.”A version of this article appears in print on May 1, 2015, on page A18 of the New York edition with the headline: Rides That Have Served as Hard-to-Prove Retribution for the Police.
Protesters ready for May Day march over black man's death in Baltimore-Reuters By Scott Malone and Ian Simpson-MAY 1,15-YAHOONEWS
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Protesters and the family of a 25-year-old black man who died of injuries sustained while in police custody planned a May Day march in Baltimore as they demanded answers and punishment for the officers involved.Freddie Gray's death is the latest in a string of incidents exposing the tense relations between U.S. minorities and police. Protesters planned to use annual May 1 marches, marking International Labor Day, to focus attention on the case, which follows the killings of unarmed black men in recent months.Police in Baltimore turned over their report on the case a day earlier to prosecutors but released few details publicly, though local media reports suggested Gray may have been injured while he was in the back of a police van.After rioting in Baltimore on Monday, protests have spread to major cities around the United States, resembling scenes of outrage sparked last year by police killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, New York and elsewhere.Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, a black woman who is the daughter and granddaughter of police officers, has now taken over the investigation to determine what exactly happened to Gray and whether any of the six officers involved in his arrest should face criminal charges. The six have been suspended from duty.Mosby said her office has been conducting its own independent probe. The U.S. Justice Department is also investigating the case."All I want her to do is one thing: Search for the truth," said U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings, a Democrat who has been a fixture in the largely peaceful protests that followed Monday's rioting. "We must allow the process to go forward."Gray suffered spinal injuries some time between his April 12 arrest and his arrival at a police station. Police have said Gray was not restrained during the ride, a violation of department policies. He died a week later.Despite the protests, many questions about Gray's death remain unanswered. But media reports on Thursday provided possible accounts of what may have happened.Multiple law enforcement sources told local broadcaster WJLA that the medical examiner found Gray's neck appeared to have broken when his head slammed into the back of the van. He also suffered a head wound matching a bolt jutting from the vehicle's back door, the sources told the station.The Washington Post cited a prisoner, who rode in the police van with Gray but could not see him, as saying he heard sounds that suggested Gray tried to hurt himself while riding in the vehicle, according to a document written by a police investigator.Many on the streets of Baltimore were skeptical of the idea that Gray's injuries were self-inflicted."The police did that," said Eugene Russell, 46. "And the police are going to get away with it."
'KAFKA-ESQUE NIGHTMARE'
Roughly 270 people have been arrested since Monday's violence - which saw stores looted, dozens of buildings and cars burned, and numerous officers injured - and officials have since imposed a citywide 10:00 p.m. curfew.Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said on Wednesday that more than 100 people had been released without being charged, because officials could not keep up with the paperwork, though he said charges would be brought later.But public defender Marci Tarrant Johnson described the conditions endured by many of the arrestees before their release in a Facebook posting Wednesday that has since gone viral. Johnson wrote that many had been illegally detained for more than 24 hours and that women she interviewed had taken to using slices of bread served as part of their meals as pillows."Interviewing these women was emotionally exhausting. Quite a few of them began crying - so happy to finally see someone who might know why they were there, or perhaps how they might get out of this Kafka-esque nightmare," she wrote."The cells were designed to hold people for a few hours, not a few days," she said.Baltimore police and the state's Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services could not be immediately reached on Friday morning to comment on the allegations.The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that one of the officers involved in Gray's arrest had been hospitalized three years ago over mental health concerns. The report could not be independently confirmed.(Writing by Curtis Skinner; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
