Riots thread

[food for thought]

Freddie Gray’s Injury and the Police ‘Rough Ride’
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us...ough-ride.html

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...

[CharlesJones]

Ironman and Olive Oil Goombah speaking the truth.

[LONDON!]

thank god the state attorney in baltimore did the correct thing, she did the right thing, its the principle, because you don't know how the jurors are gonna judge this, but its a start

at least pigs in bmore will think twice about trying to be themselves 100% because they think the state will back them up all the way, you get me, and just do there job properly

hopefully this is a landmark case and the start of the state regulating pigs for there rampant demonic savage behavior towards people mostly of colour in the USA

big up the state attorney, she's fire, big up the warriors on the frontlines in bmore, protesters, so called rioters, i like to call them uprisers, resistance, resistance against devilishment and brutality, django, rebel, renegade, big up all sections, peaceful protesters & uprisers, its all good, we're all shooting in the same direction against oppression, you see what i'm saying

big up everyone over your sides of things and keep safe, im gassed about these charges & im from the uk, london all day, everyday, you see what i'm saying, you get me, jheeeze

rip to freddie gray and condolences go out to his family and friends, say no more

[food for thought]

This morning I woke up in a curfew;
O God, I was a prisoner, too - yeah!
Could not recognize the faces standing over me;
They were all dressed in uniforms of brutality. Eh!

How many rivers do we have to cross,
Before we can talk to the boss? Eh!
All that we got, it seems we have lost;
We must have really paid the cost.

(That's why we gonna be)
Burnin' and a-lootin' tonight;
(Say we gonna burn and loot)
Burnin' and a-lootin' tonight;
(One more thing)
Burnin' all pollution tonight;
(Oh, yeah, yeah)
Burnin' all illusion tonight.

Oh, stop them!

Give me the food and let me grow;
Let the Roots Man take a blow.
All them drugs gonna make you slow now;
It's not the music of the ghetto. Eh!

Weeping and a-wailin' tonight;
(Who can stop the tears?)
Weeping and a-wailin' tonight;
(We've been suffering these long, long-a years!)
Weeping and a-wailin' tonight
(Will you say cheer?)
Weeping and a-wailin' tonight
(But where?)

Give me the food and let me grow;
Let the Roots Man take a blow.
I must say: all them - all them drugs gonna make you slow;
It's not the music of the ghetto.

We gonna be burning and a-looting tonight;
(To survive, yeah!)
Burning and a-looting tonight;
(Save your baby lives)
Burning all pollution tonight;
(Pollution, yeah, yeah!)
Burning all illusion tonight
(Lord-a, Lord-a, Lord-a, Lord!)

Burning and a-looting tonight;
Burning and a-looting tonight;
Burning all pollution tonight. [fadeout]

[food for thought]

Ironman and Olive Oil Goombah speaking the truth.

HAHAHA!!!

You know you need your head examined when Charles Jones cosigns you lmfao

[food for thought]

The Baltimore officers who arrested Freddie Gray have been charged with conduct so "grossly negligent" that it put him in a coma — leading to his death, Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby said Friday.

Mosby laid out a narrative of the events — starting at about 8:45 a.m. — on April 12 as police randomly encountered Gray in a West Baltimore neighborhood. Here's a street-by-street look:

W. North Avenue and N. Mount Street

Lt. Brian Rice, Officer Edward Nero and Officer Garrett Miller are on bike patrol when they make "eye contact" with Gray, which prompts him to run.

Rice radios dispatch that he is pursuing Gray. Nero and Miller join him.

Presbury Street

The officers reach Gray, and he surrenders willingly. Nero and Miller handcuff him.

Gray is placed into a "prone position" with his hands behind his back. At that moment, he tells the officers that he cannot breathe and requests an inhaler.

Nero and Miller find a knife clipped to the inside of Gray's pants pocket. (Mosby says the knife was not a switchblade, but was "folded in," which is legal under Maryland law.)

He is first placed on the sidewalk, then ordered back down on his stomach. He begins flailing his legs and screams. The officers put him in a restraining technique known as a leg lace and hold him "against his will" until a police wagon arrives. The incident is witnessed by bystanders and caught on cellphone video.

Officer Caesar Goodson Jr. arrives with the police van. Gray is placed inside but is not secured in a seat belt as they leave the scene.

Baker and N. Mount streets

Rice, Nero and Miller remove him from the van and place flex cuffs on his wrists and leg shackles on his ankles while completing required paperwork.

He is then placed back into the wagon head first on his stomach. He is left unsecured.

Rice tells Goodson to drive Gray to central booking. On the way there, Gray suffers a "severe and critical neck injury as a result of being handcuffed, shackled by his feet and unrestrained inside of the BPD wagon."

Baker and Moser streets

Goodson stops to check on Gray's condition but doesn't seek or render medical assistance.

He then continues driving to central booking. Several blocks later, Goodson calls dispatch and requests additional units to help check on him.

Dolphin Street and Druid Hill Avenue

Officer William Porter responds and meets up with Goodson. Porter asks Gray if he needs a medic, and Gray tells him at least twice that he does.

Both officers assess Gray and decide not to call a medic or properly restrain Gray.

The officers then receive a call asking for help to arrest a suspect on North Avenue, several blocks away.

West North and Pennsylvania avenues

Goodson — with Gray still in the back of the van — arrives to pick up the second prisoner. Goodson is met at the intersection with Nero, Miller, Porter and Rice.

Meanwhile, another officer, Sgt. Alicia White, arrives at the scene. She had been dispatched to respond to two citizen complaints pertaining to Gray's earlier arrest.

Goodson opens the back of the van, and he and Porter find Gray unresponsive on the vehicle's floor. White does nothing, "despite the fact she was advised that he needed a medic."

The second prisoner is placed into the wagon with Gray, and Goodson leaves for the Baltimore Police Department's Western District station.

N. Mount St.

The wagon arrives at the police station for booking.

The second prisoner is taken out first. By the time officers remove Gray from the vehicle, he is no longer breathing.

A medic arrives at the station and determines Gray had suffered cardiac arrest and was critically injured. He is transported to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center.

About 45 minutes have passed since his initial arrest.

[check two]

sunny and nicky, watch your racist posts. You have been warned.

[LORD NOSE]

Fuck your warning !

[LORD NOSE]

[Rev Jones]

Fuck your warning !

[']

Check Two doesn't get to play social justice police in my thread.

His grasp of what constitutes for racism often either aligns with that of a white, millennial, liberal arts chic (programmed by 'The Cathedral')

Or a rural, blue collar worker who has a meltdown when his world view is challenged by PoC.

[check two]

Your thread? Do you own it? lol It isn't just for this thread weirdo, it's for the whole forum.

[']

[check two]

I guess a lot of the forum has the same 'skewed racial interpretations' that I do since they have also complained about the racist posts.

[food for thought]

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