Prosecutors seeking to convict six Baltimore officers in the death of a young black man severely injured while in police custody will focus not on what the officers did but on what they allegedly failed to do: provide medical attention to 25-year-old Freddie Gray inside a police van on April 12.
That will require prosecutors and jurors to get inside the heads of the officers to determine whether they willfully ignored what a prosecutor said was Gray’s increasingly frantic pleas for medical help during a 44-minute ride in the van.
Unlike police abuse cases in which officers are charged with a physical act, such as beating or shooting a suspect, the Gray case involves evaluating the subjective performance of police duties. Prosecutors will have to convince jurors that the officers showed a conscious disregard for human life, said Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor.
More...http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-baltimore-legal-strategy-20150502-story.html#page=1
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What if this crazy statement by this AG was meant to ultimately fail in purpose, ending up with a relaxed verdict? Chaos would ensure, then chaos would be pushed in every state. The centralization of power at any cost lovers will cry for ultimate surrender of state rights and push harder for the police, each and every one of them to be federalized... For the children, of course. Did she pretty much say "I hear you loud and clear! No justice no peace"?
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