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Re: Prosecutor charges 6 Baltimore officers in Gray's death

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 06 May 15 4:25 PM | 78 view(s)
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If the arrest was legal, then I suspect many standards of police conduct change. The prosecutor desperately needs the knife to be illegal in order to raise the bar on police conduct. She seems to want to make all of the police people involved culpable for the death of the victim.

The real issue, however, is how this man's neck was broken. I still find it strange that the prosecutor claims he received the same injury in the police van as he appeared to have already received before entering the van. Do people feign injuries predictively? I don't think so.

I think the prosecutor has messed up justice in this case. And that will harm any chance we have to reveal what actually happened.

Something bad happened. But it isn't obvious what it was or when it occurred. We only know the result.

Someone - one person - broke this guy's neck. I am interested in who did that. Not in the rest of the six for whom this was pretty much unremarkable police work.

We now know identifying whether a knife meets differing city and state standards is difficult.

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Re: Prosecutor charges 6 Baltimore officers in Gray's death
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Wed, 06 May 15 4:15 PM 		Msg. 16878 of 54959

And there's more.

"Nero is charged with second-degree assault, misconduct in office and false imprisonment — charges that can only be proven if Gray was wrongly arrested, said Andy Alperstein, a Baltimore attorney who has represented police officers but is not involved in the Gray case. If the knife was illegal, “there is no case” against Nero and another officer, he said.

“If the facts were that the knife was illegal then the Gray arrest would be justified. Even if it wasn’t illegal and the officers acted in good faith, it would be the same result. All charges fail,” Alperstein said.

Marc Zayon, Nero’s attorney, argues in his motion that the knife in Gray’s pocket — described in charging documents as “a spring assisted, one hand operated knife” — is illegal under both Baltimore’s switchblade ordinance and state law. Gray was charged under the city ordinance, which has a different definition than the state law of what constitutes a switchblade."

http://time.com/3847891/freddie-gray-death-police-officer-baltimore/

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