[The Right Scoop] Sean Hannity interviewed someone identifying himself as a Baltimore cop who says the preliminary toxicology report on Freddie Gray tested positive for heroin and marijuana. Further, contrary to early reports, the cop says that he was observed in a possible drug deal before the cops tried to apprehend him.
The cop was anonymous throughout the interview, signalling that the cops have absolutely no trust in the Baltimore city government.
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I'd be more comfortable with this report had it come out sooner.
That the arrest took place in a location rife with criminal problems is undisputed. That Mr. Gray had a lengthy criminal CV is also unquestioned, but the drawing of attention to this is, of course, "racist" and it wasn't his responsibility to avoid criminality anyway (sarc).
There will be charges of backfilling the chronicle. Hope the "PoPo" have their documentation airtight.
He was charged with 23 felony counts between 2007 and 2015. 20 of those counts involve manufacture, distribution or sale of drugs. He has no charges between 2009 and 2011 (when he was probably in jail).
Why he was still on the streets with that record is beyond me.
Al
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At this point everything is suspect.
I wish the first thought that came to mind didn't involve falsified evidence, but it does.
Only the Prosecutor isn't as good at hiding her motives.
Personally I don't know what happened - and neither does the Prosecutor - she hasn't had the time to really examine the evidence -- too busy trying to make a name for herself.
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The city needs to shut down the rioting. Massive police + Nat Guard presence has bad optics. Charging the cops quickly now kicks that can down the road AND it preserves the career of the prosecutor's city councilman husband.
It seems likely State's Attorney Mosby has overcharged, but it looks tough, even if all the cops are eventually acquitted. And who knows, maybe they can cut a deal for one of the cops to take the fall. Hint: it won't be the black female sergeant.
As to frozen al's question of why Freddy was still on the street, I suspect that in Freddy's neighborhood, a sheet like his ain't no thing.
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frozen al, in California the people are allowed by the government to submit ballot propositions to make state law. Dunno what got into those politicians who let us do that. But one of the better laws we passed was the Three Strikes law...three felony convictions and you get life in prison with no possibility for parole...you're out!
Politicians, bleeding heart liberals and judges hate this law. It gives them no leeway for leniency for punks like Freddie Gray. But if Freddie was still in jail like he should have been at least he'd still be alive. Dunno if that's good or bad. What I do know is he was a public menace and the people of Baltimore, whether they know it or not, are better off without him.
Maybe the cops were a little heavy handed in this case. Some say they gave him a "rough ride" because they didn't like him. Maybe they didn't like him because they were sick of catching him breaking the law and then watching him walk after a few days in jail so they got a little extra judicial with him. It's a bad situation made worse by irresponsible politicians and excessive media obsession with black men getting killed in the commission of crimes after resisting arrest. Let's just hope the cops get a fair trial.
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Let's hope for a change of venue... No way they will get a fair trial there.
[Breitbart] Hillary Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri's sputtering, 1 minute 25 second response to a question about the Clinton Foundation on WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show that featured 21 "ums/uhs," bordering on incoherence.
When the host asked whether the Clinton Foundation would reinstitute the ban on foreign government donations for the rest of the campaign, Palmieri offered the following rambling response. Bruce Jenner? No, sorry, that's a photo of Palmieri.
[Breitbart] A man has been arrested in connection with a shooting of an NYPD officer in Queens Saturday afternoon.
Police say the shooting happened near the intersection of 104 Road and 212 Street in the Queens Village neighborhood around 6:15 p.m. Saturday.
Investigators say plainclothes anticrime officers noticed a man with a bend in his waistband, indicating that he may possibly have a handgun on him. When they approached him, police say the suspect opened fire and at least two bullets hit an unmarked vehicle.
One of the officers suffered injuries to his right cheek and back of the head. He was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in critical but stable condition.
New York Post reports indicate perp is man named Demetrius Blackwell.
The police officer is now in an induced coma. For someone with head trauma that's not a good sign.
[Arab News] BALTIMORE, Maryland: Thousands of people were set to hit the Baltimore streets in fresh large-scale demonstrations on Saturday, a day after six police officers were charged over the death of an African-American man in their custody.
As many as 10,000 people were set to turn out for a massive rally in the riot-scarred city, CBS Baltimore reported, in what could be the biggest show of people power yet in nearly a week of demonstrations that threaten to spread across the United States.
The Maryland National Guard said on Twitter it had nearly 3,000 soldiers and airmen ready to help “keep the peace” in the city.
Police made at least 15 arrests when some protesters defied a 10 p.m. curfew Friday, underlining the anger that persists on the street despite the shock announcement that the six officers — three of them black — would face a range of charges, including second-degree murder and manslaughter, over Freddie Gray’s April 19 death.
The 25-year-old Gray’s death at the hands of police has reignited simmering resentment in the United States over law enforcement tactics, particularly in their dealings with the black community.
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"Shoot them down" is strong. It might do nothing more than incite the rubes which is, of course, just what the hard-core leftists running this show behind the scenes want.
Remember, a key goal in a revolution is to harden your own people: the people on the other side are no longer people but the "other", the "enemy", who deserve to die. Repeated violence helps to accomplish that.
I'd still counsel restraint on the part of the police, except for arsonists (shoot them on sight) and looters (pursue and arrest). And by all means, go after the cop-killers.
Of course, firm, resolute, enlightened leadership, the kind you won't find in Baltimore, would help.
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Four dead at Kent State. No more college buildings burned. In the game of power, don't be mindless cannon fodder. The game the players are engaged in is how far they can push, to include taking over the system, without having to pay the historical price. When enough people believe it's not 'worth dying on that hill' for the system, the thugs win if you're not willing to pull the trigger.
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Non-lethal munitions [or #6] in the legs and arse group. Sure to send the scurrying. Three or four veteran police officers armed with Remington 870's and a couple boxes of ammo, a supervisor, a sniper & spotter in the distance....... all the bullshi* over in 15 minutes.
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More than a dozen people were arrested in the Californian city of Oakland after a May DayInternational Workers' Day protest that focused on alleged police brutality turned violent.
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^ They're just objecting that they're not their police, not the brutality. Weren't too concern about such when they took over other countries. See - Venezuela today.
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Remember, a key goal in a revolution is to harden your own people: the people on the other side are no longer people but the "other", the "enemy", who deserve to die.
I'm okay with that. I stopped considering the Left and their minority tools people, a long time ago. Time to pull some weeds.
[Voice of America] U.S. health officials say Ebola survivors can spread the disease through unprotected sex many months after being declared free of the virus.
In a report Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention detailed the case of a 44-year-old Liberian woman who is believed to have contracted Ebola through sexual intercourse with an Ebola survivor. The man developed the disease last September and was discharged a month later. The woman fell sick in March, a week after having sex with him, and died.
[Chicago Tribune] Even as Mayor Rahm Emanuel pledged this week to reverse some of the city's most-criticized borrowing practices, one major ratings agency on Friday highlighted another financial issue: rapidly ballooning employee pension fund payments.
It's not like we haven't known about this. Various financial reports have been pointing to this problem for the last couple decades.
This is why unions wanted to go after public employees: 1) organize 2) collect money 3) use money to elect Democrats 4) be rewarded with higher salaries and pensions 5) rinse and repeat.
Chicago's pension payments not only will grow by 135 percent to $1.1 billion next year, but also will continue swelling at a significant pace until 2026, when they will reach $1.9 billion -- or four times what the city is paying into those funds this year, according to the report by Moody's Investors Service.
Though the city will put more money into its retirement systems, the total pension debt, now estimated at about $20 billion, will continue to grow until 2027, when the city would finally begin to whittle away at that liability, the report states. But the payments still would continue to increase by up to 3 percent a year until 90 percent of the debt is covered, the report adds.
The police and fire pension funds, which account for most of the payment increases, are not expected to reach 90 percent funding until 2040. That's the schedule set under a state law that also requires that the city pay $550 million more into those two funds next year.
Emanuel is negotiating with police and fire unions to achieve a combination of reduced benefits, larger employee contributions and phased-in city payment increases. Even if he achieves that -- and the courts don't overturn changes he already engineered to municipal workers and laborers funds -- the city still would have to pay significantly more into the funds in the coming years.
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Here is the real problem: net 100k per year teacher pension for one day's work teaching: Two lobbyists with no prior teaching experience were allowed to count their years as union employees toward a state teacher pension once they served a single day of subbing in 2007, a Tribune/WGN-TV investigation has found.
The chickens have been roosting for a while, JohnQC, and not just in Chicago. They're starting to lay eggs. Exactly as has been predicted, as noted by the Salmon One, for decades.
And all those government employees are starting to see the value of promises then made and contracts then negotiated... which are starting to be renegotiated now.
[Al Manar] The death toll in the massive earthquake which struck Nepal on Saturday has passed 6,000, and many thousands are still unaccounted for.
A home ministry official said the 6,134 fatalities had been confirmed, with 13,906 injured.
Although the battered south Asian nation celebrated the rescue of two people pulled out alive from the wreckage of buildings in Kathmandu on Thursday, the sheer extent of the destruction is becoming clear.Nepal earth quake
Thousands of villages have been devastated, with up to 90% of clinics and schools in some districts rendered unusable, The Guardian reported.
Ram Sharan Mahat, the Nepalese finance minister, said it at least $2bn would be needed to rebuild homes, hospitals, government offices and historic buildings and he appealed for help from international donors.
“This is just an initial estimate and it will take time to assess the extent of damage and calculate the cost of rebuilding,” Mahat said.
Other estimates have been higher. Huge numbers of ancient monuments and important cultural buildings will also need to be restored, if they are not demolished. Major palaces in Kathmandu have been damaged and cracked.
Hundreds of thousands of people made homeless by the quake, which registered 7.8 magnitude, are yet to receive aid because of logistic bottlenecks, poor infrastructure and a chaotic government response.
Three thousand people are still unaccounted for in the badly hit Sindhupalchowk district, while little is known about northern areas of the Gorkha district where about 10,000 live. Local officials fear widespread destruction.
[Voice of America] The U.S. envoy to the United Nations on Thursday strongly criticized North Korean diplomats for disrupting a U.N. event on North Korean human rights.
The event organized by the U.S. mission to the U.N. in New York featured several speakers, including the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Samantha Power, and three North Korean defectors.
Three diplomats from the North Korean mission to the U.N. attended the event. One of them, Ri Song Chol, a counselor at the North Korean mission, unexpectedly read a statement after a North Korean defector spoke.
Power tried to stop Ri, reminding him he was informed before the event that he would be given a chance to speak. The North Korean diplomat ignored her plea and went on reading the statement, which rejected international criticism of Pyongyang’s human rights violations. He also accused the defectors of betraying “their parents, brothers and sisters and their homeland.”
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As more pressure applies for the Dems to try to hold the White House in 2016, expect many more of these unconvincing efforts to appear as adults in the room all the sudden.
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Strongly worded statement to be issued. Maybe double secret probation?
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Power tried to stop Ri, reminding him he was informed before the event that he would be given a chance to speak. The North Korean diplomat ignored her plea and went on reading the statement
[Rooters] ''Yangyang,'' a humanoid robot with a variety of realistic expressions, goes on display at an internet conference in Beijing. Sharon Reich reports.
Facsimile photo. Not photo of actual robot.
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Facsimile photo. Not photo of actual robot.
Damn.
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D *** NG IT, did we learn nothing from FUTURAMA - DON'T DATE OR MARRY YOUR ROBOTS!
OTOH, iff China + India, etal. = ASIA patently refuses to give up its Socio-Cultural focii on having Boyz, not Females, + indeed still desires to get rid of its Girls, IMO the only viable alternative is for Modern Science to dev a way whereupon many of Asia's surplus Males can be medically safely converted into Baby-capable Females.
BECUZ THE ALTERNATIVE IS FOR NATIONS TO WAGE WAR(S) IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE SURPLUS MALE POPULATION.
[Legal Insurrection] On Thursday, April 30, 2015, I reported on a developing story at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine: ALERT: Bowdoin College Students May Vote on Israel Academic Boycott
The Bowdoin College Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) group may obtain sufficient signatures on a Petition to send a referendum endorsing the full academic and cultural boycott of Israel to a vote by the full student body.
This is not a mere "divestment" resolution. In calling on the full student body to endorse the complete boycott of Israel, the referendum appears to be taking an unpredecented move among college anti-Israel initiatives, which normally are narrowly tailored.
It is a resolution, much like that passed by the American Studies Association, that would cut all academic and cultural ties with all Israeli Universities and any Israeli scholar or student acting on behalf of or through those universities. The ASA boycott was condemned as a violation of academic freedom by over 250 University Presidents (including Bowdoin's) and several major academic groups, such as the American Association of University Professors.
As of 5 p.m. yesterday, Bowdoin SJP apparently obtained the necessary signatures, even though the online petition is short of the 383 signatures needed. There were some students who signed on paper, I am told, to reach the required number.
[McClatchy] FORT BENNING, Ga. — It will be a week before the eight women trying to earn the coveted U.S. Army Ranger tab find out if they move from the hills of Fort Benning to the mountains of North Georgia and the next step in the brutal leadership training process. Appears this particular class is hitting all phases of the training at the most climatically favorable times. I'm sure this is little more than a scheduling coincidence.
The current class of Ranger School — the first in its more than six-decade history to include women — started two weeks ago with 399 soldiers, including 19 women. It was pared down after four days of intense physical assessment to 192, including eight women. There are three more potential cuts between now and the June 19 graduation. Students can also fall out for medical reasons.
One of the factors determining who earns a tab is a peer evaluation system, a critical tool used to judge potential Rangers. It evaluates an individual Ranger student’s performance in comparison to the performance of peers within his or her squad. RLTW
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] Hillary Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri's sputtering, 1 minute 25 second response to a question about the Clinton Foundation on WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show that featured 21 "ums/uhs," bordering on incoherence.
[Breitbart] A man has been arrested in connection with a shooting of an NYPD officer in Queens Saturday afternoon.
[Legal Insurrection] On Thursday, April 30, 2015, I reported on a developing story at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine: ALERT: Bowdoin College Students May Vote on Israel Academic Boycott
