Baltimore Mayor Vetoed Body Cameras

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Baltimore Mayor Vetoed Bill Requiring Body Cams for Cops


On December 2, Ms Rawlings-Blake vetoed a bill that would have made it mandatory for Baltimore police officers to be equipped with body cameras. The legislation stated that city cops would “be personally equipped with a digital audio-and-video portable recording device.”
Despite the fact that the bill overwhelmingly passed the Baltimore City Council and the mayor publicly declaring that she wanted officers to wear body cams, she still promised to veto the bill.
She delivered on that promise.

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[Karl]

Where is Barry? I would love to hear his

take on the incident and the events that came after?

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btw - Appears to me that Mr. Gray had already had spinal cord damage before...before he was put in the van.

He could not walk to the van. His leg movements appeared to uncoordinated and he appeared to be unable to stand under his own power. That man appeared to have had some degree of lower body paralysis before he entered that van. ...although on occasions he appeared to regain some ability on head movement and with his legs, I wonder if that was a result of the man-handling of his body resulting in periodic release of pressure on nerves. ...as he always collapsed after those moments when he appeared to have had some ability to control movement of legs and (indeed) his head????

[Rockman]

I heard that one of the officers has a reputation of being a racist,and the van stopped at another location where they removed Gray and beat him up.I am pretty sure the author of the article heard those rumours too.On the video,Gray clearly has a broken leg,and quite possibly how it happened was captured on the video(that too is completely ignored by so-called investigative journalists),there is a possibility he was killed by the officers in an attempt to cover their tracks.He ran by using his feet,this reminds me of what they did to escaped slaves that were recaptured.

[Rockman]

As to the mayor,the very second someone in her entourage complained that the media were not reporting the many groups that were out there trying to stop the mayhem,a witch hunt began.It all unfolded before my eyes ...,I was watching CNN.

[Mosiah]

take on the incident and the events that came after?

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btw - Appears to me that Mr. Gray had already had spinal cord damage before...before he was put in the van.

He could not walk to the van. His leg movements appeared to uncoordinated and he appeared to be unable to stand under his own power. That man appeared to have had some degree of lower body paralysis before he entered that van. ...although on occasions he appeared to regain some ability on head movement and with his legs, I wonder if that was a result of the man-handling of his body resulting in periodic release of pressure on nerves. ...as he always collapsed after those moments when he appeared to have had some ability to control movement of legs and (indeed) his head????

I noticed that but no one in the media has been saying anything about it! One report said he was standing on his own just before he got into the van. I saw no such thing.

Another report said he was fine when he arrived at the police station and this paralysis developed some days (?) later.

What is clear is that something serious happened and someone must be held accountable.

But we thought so about so many others.

Sigh

[Sir X]

The autopsy will tell the events of trauma. One of them will snitch, the state then the feds will chew them up.A mssg will be sent.

[Rockman]

Say if the Feds and powers that be wanted to hide the facts,the media should make the difference.We are witnessing a whitewashing by all that is emblematic of the police force in question,and by virtue of that another example of how we are disenfranchised.

[Rockman]

Everyone is hip to choke holds because of the Eric Gardner incident,that spinal cord injury occurred much later.Gray had problems walking because of a broken foot and the pain (they dragged him as opposed to calling for an ambulance)rendered him incoherent .

[Sir X]

Wait for the autopsy. 3things the camera showed a man in pain unable to bear weight,the autopsy will show injury.The report said he was fine until ?.....Thats the questions, if its doctored and it doesn't match the camera or autopsy timeline or place of probable incident,dawg nyan dem suppa, as it will be.

The feds must get involved civil rights were violated.

[Jangle]

Just before he goes live on Fox News Geraldo is confronted by a man in West Baltimore.



https://www.facebook.com/benjaminjha...10590/?fref=nf

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The Brutality of Police Culture in Baltimore

The Brutality of Police Culture in Baltimore

Years of abuses are every bit as egregious as what the Department of Justice documented in Ferguson, Missouri, and as deserving of a national response.


$5.7 million is the amount the city paid to victims of brutality between 2011 and 2014. And as huge as that figure is, the more staggering number in the article is this one: "Over the past four years, more than 100 people have won court judgments or settlements related to allegations of brutality and civil-rights violations." What tiny percentage of the unjustly beaten win formal legal judgments?
If you're imagining that they were all men in their twenties, think again:

Victims include a 15-year-old boy riding a dirt bike, a 26-year-old pregnant accountant who had witnessed a beating, a 50-year-old woman selling church raffle tickets, a 65-year-old church deacon rolling a cigarette and an 87-year-old grandmother aiding her wounded grandson. Those cases detail a frightful human toll. Officers have battered dozens of residents who suffered broken bones — jaws, noses, arms, legs, ankles — head trauma, organ failure, and even death, coming during questionable arrests. Some residents were beaten while handcuffed; others were thrown to the pavement.

The 87-year-old grandmother was named Venus Green. A former teacher with two college degrees, she spent her retirement years as a foster parent for needy children. She was on her porch one day when her grandson ran up crying for an ambulance.


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[MdmeX]

Well ABC news is reporting that it has been confirmed through the Police Dept. that the van made two others stops -- picked up on some camera.

[MdmeX]

Well a Senator schooled Geraldo. He had to shut it down.

http://www.salon.com/2015/04/29/gera...of_black_pain/

[Rockman]

Is there any mention of having an independent autopsy?
MdmeX,I think police abuse is at the heart of it,that abuse was evident in the video,Gray being unable to walk coupled with screams associated with pain demand immediate medical treatment.

[Mosiah]

This story is amazing! Yet some will talk nonsense about black on black crime as if that has anything to do with anything.

Kmft!