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The stakes for elected officials are never higher than crisis situations where public safety is on the line, and the past couple weeks, Maryland governor Larry Hogan has demonstrated remarkable leadership, street smarts, discipline, and operational and political savvy in coordinating the state’s response to the rioting in Baltimore. His actions in large part prevented Maryland’s largest city from destroying itself. “Governor Hogan [had been] on the job for 90 days, and he was able to help bring it together,” as Fox News contributor Dana Perino put it.
The state’s role in a disaster is indeed to “help bring it together.” It is the linchpin that coordinates the work done by local elected officials, public-safety agencies that are first on the scene, and FEMA and other federal departments and agencies that are dispatched for large-scale responses.
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and omally thought he could run back and steal the limelight. News flash Omalley we have forgotten about you and are trying to rebuild after 8 years of your destruction. All you did was put a spotlight on your failures.Do us all a favor and pound sand.
HEY larry when are you going to give us Marylanders our gun rights back ?
It's been confirmed. The Gray knife was illegal.
It's been determined conclusively that-
"Gray's knife was of the spring-assisted type, and that such spring-assisted knives fall within the scope of Baltimore code 59.22."
SA must have been absent the day in law school when it's taught to check all levels of government including local for applicable laws.
Thank goodness for Governor Hogan stepping in. Honestly, he made more sense than the Mayor and the President.
As reported by the Baltimore Sun yesterday:
While Mosby said Friday that the officers had made an illegal arrest because a knife Gray was carrying was not a “switchblade,” a violation of state law, the police task force studied the knife and determined it was “spring-assisted,” which does violate a Baltimore code. (emphasis added)
From the Sun
"In fact, Ms. Mosby was so hasty it appears she locked up two completely innocent officers. She charged Freddie Gray’s arresting officers with “false imprisonment” because she said the knife that Gray had on him was legal. In fact, as The Sun reported, the Police Task Force found it to be illegal after all. It was Ms. Mosby who had no probable cause to lock the arresting officers up, an injustice she could have easily avoided by taking her time."
The article is called "Police charges in Freddie Gray case are incompetent at best"
It is written by someone who spent 21 yrs as a deputy state's attorney in Baltimore.
What's amazing is that the Sun buried the news about the knife actually being illegal in like the 20th paragraph, when the news should have been a headline.
Repeat after me-
Duke Lacrosse Players
The beginning, of the end of this circus, will start at the first judicial hearing.
Makes no difference the coos didn't chase him for that he was chased for eye contact then running he was a KNOWN criminal.
That is what elected the Governor to do and he passed with flying colors, no pun intended.
With Gray still on probation, the knife he had constituted as a weapon, which in turn violated his condition of parole.
As for as getting our 2nd Amendment rights returned in full, remember Gov Hogan cannot do things over night. You are dealing with very Liberal DemocRATS in the Legislature. Also MD Legislature only works, in Annapolis, approx. 3 months out of the year. They are to lazy to work year round, conducting State business.
Now we need Bob to continue his agenda and lead Wicomico County back to prosperity. He can start with the Fire / EMS situation ASAP and not let the Clown of Salisbury keep postponing the inevitable.
LOL 2:53 Are you a lawyer?
We also have the Wash Post story, which said the other prisoner claimed he was of the belief that Gray was trying to injure himself.
Then shortly after, out comes Jayne Miller (WBAL reporter and in a relationship w/Janice Bledsoe (sp?) lead prosecutor of the case) interviewing Donta Allen, the supposed "other prisoner." He conveniently contradicted the leaked Wash Post piece.
Problem is police transport logs which are online available for anyone to view, shows the "other prisoner" in the van that morning was 38 yrs old. Donta Allen said in the interview that he was arrested for theft and he is no way near 38 years of age, mid 20's at oldest. MD court records do not reflex an arrest for Allen that day either.
This is one of those things, that is so queer, on so many levels, that a reasonable person has to come to the conclusion that the accuracy lies in the original leaked Wash Post story.
Republican lead.
Democrats destroy.
2:53-"eye contact?" That has nothing to do with anything. The false imprisonment charges are based solely on the knife's legality. That's it that all-nothing else.
The moon's phase, what color car you drive, what type of hemorrhoidal relief you prefer have all the same relevancy as your "eye contact" nonsense, that being none.
3:01 Is Correct 100%. It couldn't be said any better. Gray was on probation and by having the knife hidden inside his pocket, he violated his probation. And he ran, so yes, taking him into custody was justified. And for those folks who like to play Race Card, please stop. 3 out of 6 charged cops are Black, Police Chief is Black, Mayor is Black, State Attorney is Black and every "representative" in that district is Black Crooked Democ-Rat! And they bring more idiots like Al Sharpton Circus to "Deal with the Situation"?! Those So Called Reps Ain't Representing Anybody But Themselves. SO BIG KUDOS AND THANKS TO GOVERNOR LARRY HOGAN FOR HIS STEADFAST LEADERSHIP AND GETTING THINGS DONE IN A MESS CREATED BY DEMOC-RATS IN BALTIMORE
More rioting to come soon -- when the trumped up charges against those police begin to get dropped and they are acquitted of others.
It's gonna be a long, hot summer in Charm City (and Salisbury, too).
First - Everyone seems to be a JD on here.
Ultimately, the charges will get thrown out.
Just another attempt to appease the peeps.
Another dog and pony show.
How do the police see the illegal knife in his pocket to effect the arrest?
Answer is, they couldn't. They arrested him on "eye contact and running away".
THEN, they found the knife.
OKAY?
7:12-The way the legal experts are explaining it on TV is because this area has the highest crime rate in the state of MD, the police can chase anyone that runs away from them whether they make eye contact or not. The supreme court says it's legal.
Gray did stop running and surrendered a few blocks a way. They then, under what the supreme court has also ruled, is allowed to do a nonintrusive search a pat down and that's how they found the knife. then the other thing that's been brought up today is that because the knife was concealed that makes any knife illegal in the city. I also heard one of the lawyers (nero lawyer) has filed to have the charges thrown out on the grounds that the knife is illegal and the arrest was legal.
"How do the police see the illegal knife in his pocket to effect the arrest?
Answer is, they couldn't. They arrested him on "eye contact and running away".
THEN, they found the knife.
OKAY?"
How do the police see the illegal knife in his pocket to effect the arrest?"
Look up Terry Stop Terry established that, if an officer has a reasonable suspicion that a person has, or is about to, commit a crime, he can be detained for investigation. If a person is engaged in some sort of suspicious behavior that attracts an officer's attention and then runs, the fact that he runs can become part of the officer's reasonable suspicion.' The cause for detaining a suspect is very flexible; being in a known drug area is sufficient.
Absolutely correct. Too much emphasis has been put on probable cause when used for charging and not reasonable suspicion for stops.
Freddie boy has a rap sheet longer than most peoples arm, he was in a high crime neighborhood and known to police to be a drug peddler so when he ran at the sight of the police he started a series of actions that in one form or another resulted in his death, had he not run he would more than likely be alive today, Freddie started the series of actions resulting in his death and he carries that upon his shoulders! But according to everyone else it is not Freddies fault he decided to run it is the police's fault for riding bikes in that neighborhood!
Hogan where is my gun rights in MD????
The news is saying a motion filed today by one of the officers attorneys is asking for the prosecution to produce the knife. Commentators are saying that if the knife is indeed illegal then all the charges will have to be dropped against 2 of the officers.
The bottom line seems to be: under Baltimore City Code ANY knife with a spring in it is illegal, because the spring is a device, that aids in the blade opening or closing and any device that performs that function makes the knife illegal.
Now I guess we can argue what the definition of device is.
Dead Freddie couldn't breath because his respiratory signs were low because he swallowed some of the gel caps of heroin that he was selling to his neighbors in that neighborhood. That was his job.
I think I've solved this for everyone. The states attorney has come out and said she is disturbed or something like that about the leaks coming out about this case.
I've been reading comments on various articles and message boards and this seems to be the common theme-
"That morning, he was selling drugs and the police saw him. Rather than toss the drugs for the police to charge him with another crime, he swallowed them. The heroin in the gelcaps caused the seizures that broke his neck and caused his cardiac arrest."
MS Mosby is incompitent; plain and simple. Put into office by people not interested in issues.
The eye contact is just an extra to show that he was not provoked when he ran-that it was just eye contact that made him run. Running unprovoked in a high crime area is cause to give chase.
7:12
Let's start at the beginning. Gray was in a high crime area, he fled after he made eye contact with police. As the Supreme Court has noted "unprovoked flight is simply not a mere refusal to cooperate. Flight, by its very nature, is not “going about one’s business”; in fact, it is just the opposite. Allowing officers confronted with such flight to stop the fugitive and investigate further is quite consistent with the individual’s right to go about his business or to stay put and remain silent in the face of police questioning." Illinois v Warrick. Once confronted with this reasonable suspicion, the officers have the right to conduct a "Terry Stop" or a stop and frisk. Terry v. Ohio. Upon discovering a knife that was reasonably believed to violate Baltimore City Code 59-22, the officers had probable cause to make the arrest even if the knife is subsequently found to be legal. By the way the Police Task Force investigating the death has also concluded the knife was illegal under city law. My question to you is whether you will support charges for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution if Mosby's charges are invalid?
"They arrested him on "eye contact and running away"
Once and for all NO!
They pursued him because when they made the eye contact he ran. They didn't arrest him when he made eye contact and ran. High crime + unprovoked flight = officers have right to pursue.
They arrested him because he had an illegal knife on him.
It's gotten to the point with you that if you can't understand why he was arrested-illegal knife-then you have no business offering up any more opinions because you pal are a halfwit.
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