6 Baltimore police officers to be charged with homicide.

[kwassa]

Outstanding result.

The prosecutor's statement was great, too.

edit to add:

Here is the full press conference where Mosby reads the entire complaint listing all the charges against each individual policeman and the specific charges against them, as well as the timeline of what they believe occurred.

[ladjf]

1. This is a just and logical move. nt

[rhett o rick]

2. This is what we need to stop this crap. nm

[bvar22]

4. We need one more thing.

Instead of the Taxpayers paying the bill and fines,
the individual dirty cops have to forfeit assets.
If that money starts coming out of their pockets instead of ours,
we will hear a lot more "Please" and "Thank You" from the cops.

[rhett o rick]

7. I agree completely. nm

[bravenak]

8. I agree. If they wanna break people they should be broke.

[qwlauren35]

3. Now, what about convictions?

They are going to have the best, most expensive defense attorneys that the US has to offer.

If they get off, Baltimore will explode like Monday was a walk in the park.

[BrotherIvan]

5. Tears are streaming down my face

I gotta go wipe them off before anyone sees me. Ms. Mosby just captured my heart.

[ellenrr]

6. where's Michael Eric Dyson? I haven't seen a statement by him on Baltimore.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. Monday April 27th

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbcs-michael-eric-dyson-connects-baltimore-riots-to-lead-poisoning-wealth-disparity/

ETA.

“The forces of oppression,” Dyson said, “have besieged that urban terrain.” The Baltimore Ravens and Orioles, he added, have contributed to the city’s problem “with their tax exempt status and their being given tremendous goodies to stay in the city” — “the urban blight contrasted to the extraordinary capital for some people.”

Quoting Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s statement that “a riot is the language of the unheard,” Dyson suggested it would be difficult to condemn this riot without also mentioning the broad context for why a local community would destroy itself. Without the current demonstrations, he said, “your cameras, our commentary would not be in Baltimore talking about the slow terror of expulsions from schools, the rising rates of lead poisoning, the export of jobs to places across the waters that have no ability to refuel and recycle that capital back here. So when you put all that together, it’s easy to point a gun of analysis and shoot them with the bullets of our condemnation instead of saying we have to together find a way out of this.”

Dyson later lamented that much of the media coverage will focus on “hooligans” and “thugs,” but will miss larger points he believes need to be heard now that Baltimore is in the spotlight. “What we don’t have commentary about is the theft of capital from these urban post-industrial conditions,” he said. “What we don’t see is the fact that many people live in New York, Pennsylvania, and come to Baltimore and extract revenue from that city and they don’t give back to the communities, and result of there, that’s a sense that these people are disposable.”

So, yes, the violence is unnecessary, Dyson concluded, but what isn’t being said is how if people were to ask the rioters how they could destroy their own buildings, and conceivably their own future prospects, “Many of them would say, ‘We don’t have a future.’”

Video at bottom of page at the link

[sheshe2]

9. No justice no peace. nt

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

10. Thread here today where dozens of DU members are ALL OF A SUDDEN CONCERNED

about CVS stores, ATM's owned by Pakistani's

Makes me sick and angry, REAL angry

I do NOT want to read that SHIT on DU

[gollygee]

12. We also have this thread

wehre someone who joined yesterday is very, very concerned about the prosecutor having a conflict of interest.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026610421

[Glassunion]

13. No.... You don't say?

You mean to tell me that some AverageJoe signed up and did that?