In the case of Freddy Gray, when cops didn't follow the rules and he died. At the very least that's gross negligence and warrants a civil trial as a minimum. The larger test is raised by the issue of how much a Black man's life is worth to his peers and to the community at large. Breaking it down: The young Black protestors identify with Gray and they know, given the statistical record, their chance of being in police custody is almost certainly going to occur sooner or later. Many have likely already experienced arrest, some unwarranted, and came away with deep negative feelings towards the police.Hmmm, yeah, the riots have everything to do with it. If it wasn't for the riots we wouldn't even be talking about it. Neither Al Sharpton nor Obumble would have stuck their nose into it.
How can a riot affect the guilt or innocence of an individual?
Didn't a crime either occur or it didn't?
We don't know IF a crime was committed or not.
we haven't heard any evidence, only the prosecutor "talking to the choir" (All is under control, we are going to hang the "Freddy Gray six").
I wanna hear the evidence before I jump to conclusions, unlike you anti-cop liberals who ALWAYS blame the police, UNTIL ALL the evidence comes out, that is.
And THEN we find out the police were innocent of any wrong-doing.
Lesson learned: Criminals resisting arrest could get hurt.
The cops have already ADMITTED negligence through not following their own rules.
Not-following-the-rules does not constitute a crime, a firing offense maybe, but not a crime.
A person has to break a law to constitute a crime.
we'll just have to wait to see IF a crime was committed.
Experience is shared and the simple arithmetic ( Freddy Gray + shared experience) =something must be done since our individual complaints go unheeded.
The formulae reveals grounds on which to establish a violation of human rights. Not those necessarily embedded in a Constitutional framework but those endowed by God to whom all men must bow. Freddy Gray was as much a art of We The People as any US citizen and deserves the martyrdom assumed by a cause and carried by his name!
Freddy Gray could have done a lot to save his own life!
IF he WASN'T a criminal and resisting arrest, he would've lived through the night.
Gee, that is a novel idea, "Don't be a life-long criminal, and don't resist when the cops arrest you for another of your twenty crimes (Crimes he has been arrested for, I wonder what the factor is for crimes he wasn't caught for? ... anyone know?), at the tender age of 25".