The Shooting Gallery: Police Violence MEGATHREAD

[grumbler]

One of the cops charged in the Baltimore case was suicidal and violently unstable.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/05/freddie-gray-baltimore-police-brian-rice?CMP=ema_565

Just one?

[jimmy olsen]

Nine Georgia deputies fired after 22 year old dies in custody.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mathew-ajibade-nine-georgia-deputies-fired-after-22-year-olds-n356551

[Darth Wagtaros]

So, I'm moving up to Baltimore this June. I was visiting last weekend during the curfew to apartment hunt. Sucks for the small businesses, but it was perfect timing to negotiate a lower rental price.  It was eerie watching national guard patrol the Inner Harbor area and see MRAP/Humvee convoys going through downtown. Got a photo with the squad who were guarding the entrance to the Johns Hopkins emergency room. I doubt I'll see that again in my lifetime (well, maybe again when they acquit the cops, LA style.)

I also drove around Sandtown-Winchester (Freddie Gray's 'hood) for fun. It's fucking third world over there.

You are moving there why? Detroit too close to Canada?

[grumbler]

So, I'm moving up to Baltimore this June. I was visiting last weekend during the curfew to apartment hunt. Sucks for the small businesses, but it was perfect timing to negotiate a lower rental price.  It was eerie watching national guard patrol the Inner Harbor area and see MRAP/Humvee convoys going through downtown. Got a photo with the squad who were guarding the entrance to the Johns Hopkins emergency room. I doubt I'll see that again in my lifetime (well, maybe again when they acquit the cops, LA style.)

I also drove around Sandtown-Winchester (Freddie Gray's 'hood) for fun. It's fucking third world over there.

You are moving there why? Detroit too close to Canada?

Johns Hopkins Medical Center is a pretty good place for doctors-in-training to be.  Drive due south from Detroit if you want to go to Canada.

[Malthus]

So, I'm moving up to Baltimore this June. I was visiting last weekend during the curfew to apartment hunt. Sucks for the small businesses, but it was perfect timing to negotiate a lower rental price.  It was eerie watching national guard patrol the Inner Harbor area and see MRAP/Humvee convoys going through downtown. Got a photo with the squad who were guarding the entrance to the Johns Hopkins emergency room. I doubt I'll see that again in my lifetime (well, maybe again when they acquit the cops, LA style.)

I also drove around Sandtown-Winchester (Freddie Gray's 'hood) for fun. It's fucking third world over there.

You are moving there why? Detroit too close to Canada?

The pure joy of being a "have" among a whole bunch of "have-nots"? 

I think, though, the answer is that pretty well the only industry in Baltimore that is actually growing is the health-care industry.

[Darth Wagtaros]

So, I'm moving up to Baltimore this June. I was visiting last weekend during the curfew to apartment hunt. Sucks for the small businesses, but it was perfect timing to negotiate a lower rental price.  It was eerie watching national guard patrol the Inner Harbor area and see MRAP/Humvee convoys going through downtown. Got a photo with the squad who were guarding the entrance to the Johns Hopkins emergency room. I doubt I'll see that again in my lifetime (well, maybe again when they acquit the cops, LA style.)

I also drove around Sandtown-Winchester (Freddie Gray's 'hood) for fun. It's fucking third world over there.

You are moving there why? Detroit too close to Canada?

Johns Hopkins Medical Center is a pretty good place for doctors-in-training to be.  Drive due south from Detroit if you want to go to Canada.

That is true. 

[11B4V]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/05/09/police-officers-shot-hattiesburg-miss/27072641/

[Darth Wagtaros]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/05/09/police-officers-shot-hattiesburg-miss/27072641/

I guess if nothing else it means Scips is getting some business.

[PDH]

So, I'm moving up to Baltimore this June.

My cousin is in post-doc/residency stuff at Johns Hopkins now.

[Admiral Yi]

The Madison WI DA declined to press charges against a white cop who shot and killed a "biracial" young man.

Very fortunately for Madison, the DA is a also half black.

[jimmy olsen]

The Madison WI DA declined to press charges against a white cop who shot and killed a "biracial" young man.

Very fortunately for Madison, the DA is a also half black.

I think we need a lot more information than that to judge whether or not he should have been charged or not.

[Admiral Yi]

That's a rockin' thought you had there Timmy.

[Eddie Teach]

White officer will not be charged in Wisconsin shooting
Associated Press By TODD RICHMOND
25 minutes ago
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Wisconsin Police Officer Who Killed Black Teenager Won't Be Charged

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A white Wisconsin police officer won't be charged for fatally shooting an unarmed 19-year-old biracial man, a prosecutor announced Tuesday, prompting peaceful demonstrations but none of the immediate violence that has hit some other U.S. cities.

Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said he wouldn't file charges against Madison Officer Matt Kenny in the March 6 death of Tony Robinson, saying the officer used lawful deadly force after he was staggered by a punch to the head and feared for his life.

Ozanne, mopping his brow repeatedly but speaking forcefully for some 25 minutes, took pains to outline his own biracial heritage before announcing his decision.

"I am the son of a black woman who still worries about my safety," Ozanne said. "I am a man who understands the pain of unjustified profiling and I am the first district attorney of color not only in Dane County but in the state of Wisconsin."

Then, Ozanne walked through evidence from the scene, 911 callers, Robinson's friends, police affidavits, crime lab reports and more to paint a picture of a young man out of control from a mix of hallucinogenic mushrooms, marijuana and Xanax. Officer Kenny rushed to the apartment building, and immediately became concerned that Robinson was attacking someone upstairs. He fired his weapon only after he was punched in the head and feared he might be disarmed and killed, Ozanne said.

"I conclude that (Robinson's) tragic and unfortunate death was the result of a lawful use of deadly police force and that no charges should be brought against Officer Kenny in the death of Tony Robinson Jr.," Ozanne said. He quickly wrapped up and left to meet Robinson family members.

Demonstrators walk down East Washington Avenue to protest the shooting of Tony Robinson at the state ...
Robinson's mother, Andrea Irwin, said she was not surprised by the decision. The investigation wasn't thorough enough, she said.

"They could have done a lot. What they didn't do was give my son any respect," she said. But family members, as they have since the shooting, asked that protests remain peaceful.

About 100 people gathered at Robinson's apartment house in the wake of Ozanne's decision. One of them, Jivonte Davis, 19, said he had known Robinson since the fifth grade.

"I can go out and break stuff and do anything I want right now," Davis said. "But rioting and everything, what would that achieve? We're no Ferguson, we're no Baltimore. We're going to do this the right way. We're going to do this peacefully."

The protesters, eventually estimated by police at 250 to 300 people, began marching to the state Capitol about a mile a half away. Some had dogs and strollers and were bound for a nearby church for a prayer service. Marchers chanted "No justice, no peace, no racist police," and held a banner that read "Justice for Tony." They eventually dispersed.

One lead group in organizing earlier protests, the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition, had earlier announced plans to demonstrate on Wednesday.

Robinson's death forced Madison — a liberal bastion that is home of the University of Wisconsin and the state capital — to confront racial divisions. Blacks make up about 7 percent of the population but more than that in arrests, incarceration and poverty. One demand from the Young, Gifted and Black group was to drop plans to renovate the county jail and free 350 black inmates.

Police Chief Mike Koval wrote in a blog post following Ozanne's announcement that the city was at a crossroads, with the chance to show that "civic dissent and even acts of civil disobedience" can co-exist with police. Koval's post included how protesters could avoid the most damaging arrests, and he posted a list of ordinance violations, misdemeanors and "protected activities" complete with fine amounts for the violations.

But police were also ready for the possibility of violence. A Madison police captain warned city leaders before Ozanne's decision that police had received threats from reliable sources that gang members planned violence against police officers, according to an email sent the leaders provided to The Associated Press.

The shooting was another in a series of police confrontations that have ignited racial tension across the nation in the past year. Most recently in Baltimore, riots erupted after the funeral for Freddie Gray, a black man who suffered a fatal spinal injury while in police custody. Other high-profile cases of officers killing unarmed black residents include the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; Eric Garner in New York City; and Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Six officers involved in Gray's death have been charged, as has the officer who killed Scott. Grand juries declined to charge the officers involved in Brown's and Garner's deaths.

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http://news.yahoo.com/prosecutor-no-charges-against-white-police-officer-202245689.html

Here you go.

[jimmy olsen]

That's a rockin' thought you had there Timmy.

And your post was an intellectual analysis of race relations in Wisconsin?

[Admiral Yi]

It was not.  What a silly question.