A Disgraceful Day For The National News Media

[MajGenl.Meade]

I tried post-racial but it's tough to get the stamps to stick. The USPS has some stupid rule about using staples too.

[wesw]

the ussr was post racial for a while....

and cuba!

[Lord Jim]

Accused officers have wide range of experience




Local
Accused officers have wide range of experience

Clockwise from top left: Baltimore police officers William G. Porter, Garrett E. Miller, Caesar R. Goodson Jr., Edward M. Nero, Alicia D. White, Brian W. Rice. (Baltimore Police Department)
By Paul Schwartzman May 1 at 11:05 PM

The six officers accused in the death of Freddie Gray face a litany of charges that include second-degree depraved-heart murder, involuntary manslaughter, false imprisonment and misconduct in office.

The officers — three white, three African American — represent a broad spectrum of experience on Baltimore’s police force. Three of them joined the force three years ago. The driver, who faces the most serious charges, is African American and has been on the force since 1999.

One officer had his weapons confiscated after a former girlfriend contacted the Carroll County sheriff’s office to say she feared for his safety.

The officers include one woman, a sergeant, who joined the force in 2010.

All six officers were taken into custody Friday and released after posting bail that evening, according to online court records.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/who ... story.html

There are longer bios of the cops at that link.

One of the things I've been hearing a lot this week is that in Baltimore, the tensions aren't rooted so much racism as they are in an "us versus them" type mentality shared by many police officers regardless of race, that is more class based then race based.

[Gob]

While no one condones looting, on the other hand, one can understand the pent-up feelings that may result from decades of repression and people who have had members of their family killed by that regime, for them to be taking their feelings out on that regime. And I don't think there's anyone in any of those pictures … [who wouldn't] accept it as part of the price of getting from a repressed regime to freedom.

[liberty]

What a country, who in their right mind would live there voluntarily?

Don’t be envious Gob your country is making good progress you will get there or here depending on how you look at it. There was a time in England when the all the local Bobby needed was his little stick if he got into trouble the community would back him up. How the times change.

[Gob]

Don’t be envious Gob your country is making good progress you will get there or here depending on how you look at it. There was a time in England when the all the local Bobby needed was his little stick if he got into trouble the community would back him up. How the times change.

British police are still unarmed, you do know that don't you?

[liberty]

Don’t be envious Gob your country is making good progress you will get there or here depending on how you look at it. There was a time in England when the all the local Bobby needed was his little stick if he got into trouble the community would back him up. How the times change.

British police are still unarmed, you do know that don't you?

Yes, but can the copper depend on the community come to his rescue or will they cheer on his attackers.

Feel eventually English police will carry guns.

[Gob]

Yes he can, we are a civilised nation know.

[liberty]

Yes he can, we are a civilised nation know.

Wasn’t there a riot in English a while back the Bobbies had to run from?

[Crackpot]

I believe it was in Hindu.

[MajGenl.Meade]

..maybe it was a ryot

[Joe Guy]

Although is seems to us in the U.S. that all riots are in English, the truth is that most riots are translated into English for us by the reporting media.

[MajGenl.Meade]

[Gob]

I'd riot for free pussy!!

[MajGenl.Meade]

[liberty]

Yes he can, we are a civilised nation know.

Wasn’t there a riot in English a while back the Bobbies had to run from?

A curse my be funny unless it happens to you.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Beat the Clock featured words stuck to a magnetic board and people had to "arrange them into a well known phrase or saying" in 30 seconds as the second hand moved around a large clock face.

A curse my be funny unless it happens to you

[wesw]

crap. holly and our daughter on a school field trip to national zoo today. I hope the apparently false report of police shooting in Baltimore doesn t start too much trouble before they get back home....

[wesw]

....a squirrel? where? where s the squirrel?

[Lord Jim]