TODAY show july 28. No mention of cop exoneration in Freddie Gray case.

[ShootSpeeders]

All charges against all the cops have been dropped !!! Should have been the lead story but i watched the first half hour and no mention of it. If the cops had been convicted it would have been not just the lead story but the only story for the first hour.

The american press is run by racists who are pro-black and anti-white. Worst news media in history.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

And i'm still waiting for the baltimore mayor to explain why she gave $6.4 million to the family of freddie gray.

 

[waltky]

Lotta good money wasted on a bad cause...

Freddie Gray Officer Trials Cost City $7.4M
July 29, 2016 - Baltimore has paid an estimated $7.47 million for the trials of police officers charged and acquitted in the death of Freddie Gray.

The Police Department accrued a little more than $7 million in costs, including $4.5 million for overtime and $2.5 million for supplies such as riot gear, while the state's attorneys office accounted for the remaining $450,000, according to Anthony McCarthy, spokesman for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. On Wednesday, prosecutors dropped all remaining charges against the officers, ending the high-profile trials that began in December.

Officer William Porter's trial ended with a hung jury and mistrial. Officers Edward Nero, Caesar Goodson Jr. and Lt. Brian Rice were acquitted. Officers Porter, Garrett Miller and Sgt. Alicia White were scheduled for trials when the charges were dropped Wednesday. Baltimore City alone will foot the bill, McCarthy said.

Lieutenant Brian Rice, center, is escorted from Courthouse East to a waiting car after being found not guilty on all charges related to the death of Freddy Gray on July 18.​

Gov. Larry Hogan has called the prosecutions a waste of time and money, especially after Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby failed to win convictions in four trials. Tessa Hill-Aston, president of the city's NAACP chapter, said she was "very disappointed" in the outcome of the trials. "I've been advocating that the cases should move forward," she said.

Still, Hill-Aston said she understands the decision to drop the charges "based on [Mosby's] rationale about money and feeling that she was not going to get any convictions, that it would be a waste of the court's time." But the trials were not the only costs. In September, the city approved a $6.4 million payout to the Gray family, accepting all civil liability. The West Baltimore man suffered spinal injuries that proved fatal while being transported in a police van.

Freddie Gray Officer Trials Cost City $7.4M | Officer.com

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Former Baltimore Police Commissioner: Mosby Incompetent, Vindictive
July 28, 2016 - Former Commissioner Anthony W. Batts said State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby is "in over her head" and has added more flaws to a broken justice system by prosecuting innocent officers.

The former police commissioner in charge when Freddie Gray died from injuries sustained in a Baltimore police van said State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby is "in over her head" and has added more flaws to a broken justice system by prosecuting innocent officers. "She's immature, she's incompetent, she's vindictive and that's not how the justice system is supposed to work," former Baltimore police commissioner Anthony W. Batts said on Wednesday. "The justice system is supposed to be without bias for police officers, for African Americans, for everyone." Batts led Baltimore police from the fall of 2012 until Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake fired him in July 2015 amid a surge in city homicides that followed weeks of criticism from the police union over his handling of the city's riots two months before. Batts said Mosby never should have filed charges against the six officers involved in Gray's arrest, and that her decision Wednesday to drop charges against the remaining three officers facing trials was long overdue. Her actions, Batts said, have further harmed a criminal justice system in need of repairs. "Don't create more flaws in that broken system," he said. "And you don't do it on the back of innocent people just to prove that point."

Former Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts said State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby is "in over her head" and has added more flaws to a broken justice system by prosecuting innocent officers.​

A spokeswoman from the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office did not respond to Batts' specific claims, but lumped them with the comments made by the GOP's presidential candidate. "Today Donald Trump and former commissioner Anthony Batts have attacked the State's Attorney in numerous ways, but as our First Lady Michelle Obama said, when they go low we go high," said Rochelle Ritchie, a spokeswoman for Mosby's office. Weeks of an internal police investigation found no evidence that officers committed any crimes or meant to hurt Gray, Batts said. The former police commissioner said he has always acknowledged that mistakes were made, and that Gray should have been given medical care during his fatal van ride. "There was no question that Freddie Gray should have gone home after that interaction," Batts said. "But sometimes when people are doing the job of police work, bad things happen sometimes." Days after Gray's death, Batts said he personally urged the Baltimore city solicitor to issue a civil settlement in the case. In September 2015, the city approved a $6.4 million payout to the Gray family, accepting all civil liability. "I was proud of the city stepping up to the plate and taking responsibility," he said.

Forty officers on a task force Batts convened to investigate Gray's death looked at every angle of Gray's arrest and could not find evidence of a crime, Batts said. That became clear in court and to the public after prosecutors failed to secure any convictions through four trials. "My heart bled for these officers as they went through these steps," Batts said. "I think Marilyn Mosby is in over her head." He said the six officers who faced trials have "a good heart." "I didn't see any malice in the heart of those police officers," Batts said. "I don't think those officers involved are those you would put in the class of bad or malicious or evil police officers." Batts, who also oversaw police departments in Long Beach and Oakland, Calif., is currently working as a consultant with the AWW Group training police commanders, including a group in Fort Worth, Texas, last week.

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Marilyn Mosby Assails Baltimore Police Dept.
July 28, 2016 - Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby came out swinging Wednesday after she dropped the charges against the remaining police officers accused in the death of Freddie Gray.

Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby came out swinging Wednesday after she dropped the charges against the remaining police officers accused in the death of Freddie Gray, slamming the criminal justice system and saying police were too biased to investigate themselves. In a fiery news conference at the Gilmor Homes housing project, the prosecutor said that without sweeping reform to police and the court system, "we could try this case 100 times, and cases just like it, and we would still end up with the same result." Mosby told The Baltimore Sun that she planned to pursue such reforms -- including the ability of prosecutors to use independent investigators. Mosby charged six officers in Gray's arrest and death last year. Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry G. Williams acquitted three of them, saying prosecutors lacked the evidence to prove their cases. Mosby dropped charges Wednesday against the other three. "I wanted to be able to expose the systemic issues," she said. "And I think that's one of the reasons why we said we should probably [drop the remaining cases]: so we can try to work toward a solution."

Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby holds a news conference on July 27 at Mount and Presbury Streets, the corner where Freddie Gray was taken into police custody, after dropping the charges against the three remaining officers to be tried in his death.​

The Baltimore police union called Mosby's comments "outrageous, uncalled for and simply not true." Former Police Commissioner Anthony Batts called Mosby "immature, incompetent and vindictive." Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said the prosecutions were "disgraceful" and Mosby "ought to prosecute herself." Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said she supported Mosby but questioned whether she had gone too far in her criticisms of the criminal justice system. "I have certainly learned from the challenges that I have faced, but I have never -- and will never -- use my position to give the impression to the community that they should not have confidence in the people who have sworn to serve them," Rawlings-Blake told CNN in Philadelphia, where she is taking part in the Democratic National Convention. Mosby said there had been "many gains" since Gray's death, including the purchase of new police vans equipped with video cameras and new police policies that require officers to confirm they have received and read new general orders.

Mosby said she was disappointed by the acquittals of the three officers, but she did not regret pursuing the charges. "If this defines my term as the state's attorney, I'm OK with that," Mosby told The Sun. "Because for me, my mission as a prosecutor was to seek justice over convictions, to make sure that we are holding everyone accountable regardless of occupation, sex or religion. "At the end of the day, this was a just process. [The officers] received due process, the verdict was rendered, and, at the end of the day, I believe justice was served," Mosby said.

Doug Ward, the director of the Division of Public Safety Leadership at the Johns Hopkins School of Education, said Gray's death, the charges against the officers and the trials "absolutely ... caused a rift" between police and prosecutors. But he said it was necessary. The "criminal justice system has been stacked against minorities," Ward said, and the cases have brought about a larger discussion about the need to improve it. University of Pittsburgh law professor David Harris studies racial profiling and police misconduct. "There's no doubt that this has already poisoned relationships between the state's attorney's office and the Police Department," he said. But he didn't expect it to harm broader efforts against everyday crime.

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[RoshawnMarkwees]

And i'm still waiting for the baltimore mayor to explain why she gave $6.4 million to the family of freddie gray.

No biggie. They'll just raise the toll charge for the harbor tunnel.
We all are forced to buy figurative lottery tickets in order to fund parasites.

 

[ogibillm]

they weren't exonerated

 

[ShootSpeeders]

they weren't exonerated

Hey einstein. All charges were dropped.

 

[ogibillm]

they weren't exonerated

Hey einstein. All charges were dropped.

hey einstein. they weren't exonerated

 

[TooTall]

they weren't exonerated

Hey einstein. All charges were dropped.

hey einstein. they weren't exonerated

What do you call it semantics expert?

 

[ogibillm]

they weren't exonerated

Hey einstein. All charges were dropped.

hey einstein. they weren't exonerated

What do you call it semantics expert?

the charges were dropped

 

[NCC1701]

the officers are suing mosby, LOL, fry that bitch

 

[NCC1701]

they weren't exonerated

Hey einstein. All charges were dropped.

hey einstein. they weren't exonerated

What do you call it semantics expert?

the charges were dropped

3 of them found not guilty in court, right? wtf u call that?

 

[TooTall]

they weren't exonerated

Hey einstein. All charges were dropped.

hey einstein. they weren't exonerated

What do you call it semantics expert?

the charges were dropped

Doesn't that mean they should not have been charged in the first place? I call that exonerated.

 

[ogibillm]

they weren't exonerated

Hey einstein. All charges were dropped.

hey einstein. they weren't exonerated

What do you call it semantics expert?

the charges were dropped

Doesn't that mean they should not have been charged in the first place? I call that exonerated.

is english not your first language?

 

[NCC1701]

Hey einstein. All charges were dropped.

hey einstein. they weren't exonerated

What do you call it semantics expert?

the charges were dropped

Doesn't that mean they should not have been charged in the first place? I call that exonerated.

is english not your first language?

and so what? if charges were dropped then it is likely they were not at fault

 

[NCC1701]

officer Nero was acquitted in a trial, but he was not 'exonerated'? I call bullshit

 

[ogibillm]

hey einstein. they weren't exonerated

What do you call it semantics expert?

the charges were dropped

Doesn't that mean they should not have been charged in the first place? I call that exonerated.

is english not your first language?

and so what? if charges were dropped then it is likely they were not at fault

might be. that isn't the same as exonerated

 

[ogibillm]

officer Nero was acquitted in a trial, but he was not 'exonerated'? I call bullshit

well... try learning the meaning if words and it'll make more sense

 

[Conservative65]

they weren't exonerated

Hey einstein. All charges were dropped.

hey einstein. they weren't exonerated

If you read the definition of exonerate, they were.

 

[saintmichaeldefendthem]

officer Nero was acquitted in a trial, but he was not 'exonerated'? I call bullshit

well... try learning the meaning if words and it'll make more sense

DA's don't exonerate people. They prosecute or they don't.

 

[ogibillm]

officer Nero was acquitted in a trial, but he was not 'exonerated'? I call bullshit

well... try learning the meaning if words and it'll make more sense

DA's don't exonerate people. They prosecute or they don't.

exactly