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- Fri May 01, 2015 9:49 pm
- Forum: The Crime Blotter
- Topic: Freddie Gray's death ruled a homicide
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Re: Freddie Gray's death ruled a homicide
Wasn't there a little money for political campaigns going back and forth too?
- Fri May 01, 2015 7:14 pm
- Forum: The Crime Blotter
- Topic: Freddie Gray's death ruled a homicide
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Re: Freddie Gray's death ruled a homicide
I don't get that either. I assume that it's usually not prosecuted due to qualified immunity, meaning that you'd have to prove that the officers intent was willful and a known violation of the law versus a "whoops".philip964 wrote: If my memory escapes me, it seems lots of people are falsely arrested for lets say legal photography and later released, but no police offices are charged with false imprisonment.
Most people vote with their feet. I'm afraid if I lived in Baltimore I'd give it one election and if it didn't change I'd be gone.
The other broken part of this system is that we require that police officers and our prosecuting attorneys work together frequently and often. Asking those attorneys to prosecute the people that they work with every single day and will have to work with tomorrow creates an interesting situation... Personally, I think that someone "else" should prosecute the police - someone without that history and someone who doesn't need their assistance in the future.
I've been to Baltimore... Not a place that's on my bucket list to go back to.