Baltimore

[simplepeddler]

..........Megan Kelly interviewing a Baltimore cop that works with the six cops being charged........apparantly Freddie was a well know informant for the department........which would answer the question on why he was arrested so many times and convicted so little.

Freddie ran from the at very corner he had been arrested many times for selling narcotics.....unprovoked flight is the terminology used ........cops are taught to give chase to unprovoked flight .........now that we learn they new him.........it starts to make some sense

[B-Stealth]

Originally Posted by simplepeddler

..........Megan Kelly interviewing a Baltimore cop that works with the six cops being charged........apparantly Freddie was a well know informant for the department........which would answer the question on why he was arrested so many times and convicted so little.

Freddie ran from the at very corner he had been arrested many times for selling narcotics.....unprovoked flight is the terminology used ........cops are taught to give chase to unprovoked flight .........now that we learn they new him.........it starts to make some sense

So he was a well known informant.... I wonder if his injuries could have been caused or exasperated by another passenger?

[simplepeddler]

Originally Posted by B-Stealth

So he was a well known informant.... I wonder if his injuries could have been caused or exasperated by another passenger?

now that is interesting.......

I just remember Starsky and Hutch "arresting" Huggie Bear all the time .......to make it look like he was a small time wannabe getting arrested and then giving information

[Goooh]

Originally Posted by B-Stealth

So he was a well known informant.... I wonder if his injuries could have been caused or exasperated by another passenger?

I don't believe there was another passenger in the same compartment as him, it seems like I remember the other fella that was arrested and put in the van said he couldn't see Freddie due to the partition.

[MathGeek]

Originally Posted by simplepeddler

Freddie ran from the at very corner he had been arrested many times for selling narcotics.....unprovoked flight is the terminology used ........cops are taught to give chase to unprovoked flight .........now that we learn they new him.........it starts to make some sense

And how often do you suppose that government employees admit that they provoked a citizen to flee?

If these government employees knew Freddie, then Freddie also knew these government employees. I wonder if Freddie may have reasonably expected (based on past experience) the kinds of mistreatment he ended up receiving?

In this case, he was arrested and falsely imprisoned for a knife that was perfectly legal. How many of his past encounters involved government employees making false claims in order to take him into custody?

In this case, the police failed to follow procedures in how he was transported, and this failure may have cost Freddie his life. In how many past encounters did the police fail to follow proper procedures?

Do you really think this was the first time these government employees failed to follow procedures or exaggerated a legal item or action to take someone into custody on a false pretense? Then how can you claim Freddie was unprovoked in wanting to put some distance between himself and the abusive government employees?

Is "remain still and take it" the only proper response to government abuse of power? Certainly, no one in their right mind advocates the use of force against police, even abusive police. But having firmly decided that the use of force against police is wholly unwise and unreasonable, is gaining some distance and hoping to avoid being abused never a good response? Gaining distance is certainly better than the use of force.