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A Thinker says:
May 1, 2015 at 10:35 pm
I think one point that hasn’t been noted yet is that there were two phases to this situation, before he went in the van, and after he went in the van. Its becoming more important here, because the three black officers were involved in the “after he went into the van” conduct, and the three white officers were involved in the before he went into the van conduct. The ME’s report apparently states that the broken neck was the result of sliding around in the van, not because of any purported police take down by the white officers. Mosby did her best to treat this whole thing as though they were all involved, all the time, which doesn’t appear true from what we know.
Why this is important is that the charges against the first three cops are the weakest. Her whole argument (and its her opinion, not fact), was that the arrest was “illegal.” That’s a hard hurdle to get over, especially as compared to unlawful. Unlawful is a mistake was made (the “spring assisted” knife wasn’t legal, when it really was, and I noted earlier the disputes over the definitions), its not criminal conduct on the part of the officers. To be illegal, they had to knowingly and intentionally falsely arrest Freddie. Nobody has tried to even make this argument yet, although they’re doing their best to present Rice as a mad man.
This is a key here to demonstrating that the prosecution of those three is out in left field, i.e., she charged to appease the masses, not because they actually committed a crime. Why would she do that? Because otherwise, she would have only been charging black officers, hence, no racism, and no reason for the fed to get involved.
It would be great if we could find out what the knife actually was, because if it actually was spring assisted, it was illegal in Baltimore, and the case against the three white officers goes out the window.
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