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Honey Bee's Roundhouse KickGabrielle Bluestone
6/23/16 12:14pm
Oh gee, another bench trial which cops like to use because they know that the judges will bend over backwards to find them not guilty, worked again.

Surprise! Surprise!
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  EasyDoesItHoney Bee's Roundhouse Kick
  6/23/16 12:22pm
  Or because Judges know not to allow emotion into the equation. The State failed to prove it’s case. They never had, and never will have, any evidence showing a “rough ride.” This has been a witch hunt from day one. I’m proud to have such a jurist representing my city.
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  DufuskieHoney Bee's Roundhouse Kick
  6/23/16 12:25pm
  Yep. Those black judges always stick up for those black officers.
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Hip Brooklyn StereotypeGabrielle Bluestone
6/23/16 11:59am
Redacted: I was wrong.

I’m wrong a lot. Thanks to those who clarified.
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  TestifyHip Brooklyn Stereotype
  6/23/16 12:05pm
  I guess we should just make medical examiners the judge jury and executioner. Is that what you’re suggesting with this year old hot take?
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  ReburnsABurningReturnsHip Brooklyn Stereotype
  6/23/16 12:07pm
  But wasn’t the whole issue with the “depraved heart” charge that it needed to be proved that this specific act (as compared to just being able to point to other cases where the BPD has given a “rough ride”) was an intentional act of omission and the person knew full well that a likely outcome was death?
  
  From Gawker’s last article on this, a University of Baltimore law professor:
  
  Officer Goodson is charged with depraved-heart murder in a case that on its face seems more like negligence, whereas depraved-heart murder says that the individuals showed such wanton and reckless disregard for human life that it amounts to malice. That is a very different mens rea that the commonwealth says is akin to intentional murder. The example I use in class for depraved-heart murder is that the students stand on the roof of the law school and throw cinderblocks off the edge into a crowd below. Where they’re not aiming for anyone specifically, they don’t have the intent to kill, but they’re perfectly fine with the possibility that they might crush someone’s skull. That’s depraved-heart murder. It’s a pretty significant step from that to failing to buckle someone into a van.
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Vox PopulistGabrielle Bluestone
6/23/16 12:04pm
So...does the acquittal mean these guys keep their jobs and continue to police the streets?
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  RenRenVox Populist
  6/23/16 12:08pm
  Not necessarily. They’re still are going to have to go through the internal police department discipline hearings, etc. Also, from a PR point of view — and for their own safety — I don’t see how the department allows them to work out in the community ever again.
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  Metro-CarnieVox Populist
  6/23/16 12:08pm
  Keeping their job is separate from criminal conviction. The police could determine they committed fire-able offenses with far less evidence than “beyond reasonable doubt.” Depending on the union contract, they could even just be fired if the brass lost faith in their ability to do their jobs.
  
  So, short answer: yes, they’re untouchable. Blue wall of silence, bitch.
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jrfunkensteinGabrielle Bluestone
6/23/16 2:01pm
Wow; so absolutely no one is accountable because this boy presumably severed his own spinal cord recklessly and willfully bouncing around in that mobile iron-maiden?

The fuck America?
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  TaylorSwiftKickToTheBallsjrfunkenstein
  6/23/16 3:55pm
  “Boy” - wow that’s racist
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  PeeEssAyjrfunkenstein
  6/23/16 4:32pm
  It’s pretty racist to refer to a black man as a “boy”.
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RTS1005Gabrielle Bluestone
6/23/16 12:02pm
Well fuck the Baltimore Judges, fuck the Baltimore PD, and fuck this guy in particular.
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BreakerBakerGabrielle Bluestone
6/23/16 12:03pm
Does anybody know whether there was an option to find him guilty for some kind of negligent homicide/manslaughter offense? Or is the law in Maryland that if you’re being tried for murder, you can’t be found innocent of murder but guilty of a lesser count?

It seems like a pretty difficult case to make if there’s no fallback option.
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  ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeBreakerBaker
  6/23/16 12:07pm
  He won’t even get a ticket for failing to buckle up.
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  EasyDoesItBreakerBaker
  6/23/16 12:51pm
  That’s what he was charged with, and the Judge roundly rejected the State’s weak theory.
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reggieinatlGabrielle Bluestone
6/23/16 12:10pm
Wow, Baltimore. Even I got a two game suspension.

-Ray Rice.
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  Nunna Yorzreggieinatl
  6/23/16 12:44pm
  “Well, next time you want to abuse your power to hurt people and get away with it, be a cop.”
  
  - Baltimore PD.
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blameitonthecroutons goodbye tourGabrielle Bluestone
6/23/16 12:07pm
And nobody learned anything.

GIF

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PhlegminglibGabrielle Bluestone
6/23/16 12:29pm
Just listened to this coverage on NPR, and I truly think the prosecution dropped the ball on who (or what circumstances) was responsible for the death of a young man. They couldn’t provide evidence of a rough ride and actually completely dropped that theory in the closing arguments.

Moseby will most likely be voted out next term, her husband didn’t get anywhere with his mayoral run.
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  phunkshunPhlegminglib
  6/23/16 2:15pm
  There’s no way a DA’s office will ever go hard on a group of police, ever. It just doesn’t happen. Nobody was going to be held accountable for this guy’s fate.
  
  You literally have to be a Justin Volpe type for it to happen.
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EvanrudeJohnsonGabrielle Bluestone
6/23/16 12:07pm
Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry Williams also found Goodson not guilty

This verdict might really piss off the community, this guy might want to change his name for his own protection. I would suggest Johnny Bravo.
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  pleasestopthispopupEvanrudeJohnson
  6/23/16 1:23pm
  what about “greg Brady?”
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