BALTIMORE, Maryland – Unless you’ve been living under a rock America and the World you now know of the MURDER of Mr. Freddie Gray. A citizen of Baltimore, MD. who died, in a coma, in police custody (for one week), after having been arrested, and openly violated, by Baltimore Police on the evening of 12 April 2015.
It is troubling to me, very troubling that yet again our police go unchecked, and unbalanced in big and little towns across the fruited plain. And our so-called leaders and leadership sets idly by and does nothing.
Her Honor, Stephanie Rawlins-Blake, and Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts MUST come far more correct to the table than the ‘he slipped on a banana peel’ and ‘our police [officers] felt threatened’ defense. Such will no longer suffice.
Argument has been made, and lost, lost big time, that Mr. Gray had a record, was running from police at the time, and had a ‘legal sized knife’ – btw. What the hell is a ‘legal sized knife’? Does anybody know or care to tackle, uh hmm, explain that one to me I mean? Jesus Christ. – and police did ‘absolutely nothing to him, but pursue him and take him down in the process’, and that whatever happened thereafter was, and is Mr. Gray’s fault. He slipped on a banana peel when he got in the police van, something that we didn’t know anything about, and when he did he fell on a bench and broke his neck. Not our fault! Nothing to see here, hash tag: Keep Calm and Carry On.
(It does not matter a whit or a whim IF Freddie Gray had a record or not! Police have a first best duty to Protect & Serve the General Public. Not Protect the ‘Thin Blue Line’ and Serve the General Public a Beating while in ‘Police Custody’.)
What an absolute pile of happy horse crap! Folks. Police. Baltimore’s finest, arrested, and beat that man, Freddie Gray, to death. Period. Full stop. And I do not appreciate Mayor Rawlins-Blake or Commissioner Batts public assertions.
Yesterday evening I started nosing around to see whether or not any formal petitions had been established on Mr. Gray’s behalf seeking justice. Having found none I took it upon myself to establish a petition HERE: https://www.change.org/p/office-of-the-inspector-general-for-the-city-of-baltimore-baltimore-national-action-network-investigate-the-murder-of-freddie-gray
The petition is going to the Office of the Inspector General for the City of Baltimore and the National Action Network Branch for the City of Baltimore. Openly. Imploring upon them to INVESTIGATE the MURDER of Freddie Gray. As of today’s posting we have thirty names out of one hundred, so just about halfway there.
I would very much appreciate all who read this posting this evening to click on the link ^^^^ above and add your name to that petition after having formally read it, and then SHARE IT OUT. Copy. Paste. Post. Text. Tweet. Email. Smoke Signal. Do whatever is necessary in order to facilitate action. Granted, as of today, the Department of Justice, per outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder has signaled that they will formally investigate this matter, and this is good, but Baltimore has an Independent Inspector General’s Office, and they to need to engage, and so to does the National Action Network, and I dare say the NAACP Chapter for the City of Baltimore.
This is part and partial folks of a National Tragedy, a Disgrace really, that MUST END. The killing of our elderly, youth, and disabled, by police, is shameful, and it MUST BE EXPOSED as such.
Thank you and until Justice is SERVED for Freddie Gray and [so many] Others Let Us Not Rest.
— Rhett.
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