Baltimore Unrest

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Burhead said:
Wonder if this news and combined with the delay of the investigation will have the same affect as them releasing the news of Mike Brown robbing the gas station had in Ferguson?
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Claims of a cover up and corruption will become new hashtags.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
What did you have an issue with?
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The tangents he went off on about her appearance first off. I honestly don't care if she has a tattoo or a wig or whatever. And he kept using the term "assault." Not buying it. We don't know what he (the child) said to Mom to set her off like that. I know if I said certain things to my mother I'd be knocked upside the head so this very well could be the same case. He's basing her child rearing skills off a thirty second video and little more.

I understand if she had children by several different fathers. Don't agree with it, but it's life. But she was trying to keep one out of trouble. And dragging him out of a crowd where he could have been hurt or injured had the police actually reacted. Good for her.

I think that TJS gets lot of things right. But I think in this case he should be applauding her efforts to keep her child from becoming a victim instead of focusing in on her appearance and actions.
 
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Grand Vol said:
The tangents he went off on about her appearance first off. I honestly don't care if she has a tattoo or a wig or whatever. And he kept using the term "assault." Not buying it. We don't know what he (the child) said to Mom to set her off like that. I know if I said certain things to my mother I'd be knocked upside the head so this very well could be the same case. He's basing her child rearing skills off a thirty second video and little more.

I understand if she had children by several different fathers. Don't agree with it, but it's life. But she was trying to keep one out of trouble. And dragging him out of a crowd where he could have been hurt or injured had the police actually reacted. Good for her.

I think that TJS gets lot of things right. But I think in this case he should be applauding her efforts to keep her child from becoming a victim instead of focusing in on her appearance and actions.
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This is typical behavior. You look at it as him making a snap judgement off of a 30 second video. I understand it for what it is... I see it everyday. He sees it everyday. If you don't have any interactions with black households, you perceive it differently.

Trust me, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, its a duck. The way that mom appeared and acted said all I needed to know about her decision making.
 
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I just read an article that's claiming Gray had neck surgery as recent as last weekend and it linked to a Maryland court case website. It has a case number as well and it was a civil case between Gray and Allstate involving a structured settlement.
The slant was that Gray may have been previously injured in an auto accident and had surgery or surgeries on his neck.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
This is typical behavior. You look at it as him making a snap judgement off of a 30 second video. I understand it for what it is... I see it everyday. He sees it everyday. If you don't have any interactions with black households, you perceive it differently.

Trust me, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, its a duck. The way that mom appeared and acted said all I needed to know about her decision making.
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So are you saying she should have left her child out there to riot? Or not smacked him silly had he called her any number of potty mouth names?

She stood up to lawless behavior. And allegedly has another child going into the police academy. So she should let one child toss bricks at the other?
 
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Grand Vol said:
So are you saying she should have left her child out there to riot? Or not smacked him silly had he called her any number of potty mouth names?
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No, I question why he was out there to begin with and why the job of retrieving a child from a raging riot was left in the hands of the mom instead of the father.

Cause and effect.

You and the rest of the media want to applaud her for being reactive and dealing with the effects. I question how proactive she was in helping to prevent this and causing the problem.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
No, I question why he was out there to begin with and why the job of retrieving a child from a raging riot was left in the hands of the mom instead of the father.

Cause and effect.

You and the rest of the media want to applaud her for being reactive and dealing with the effects. I question how proactive she was in helping to prevent this and causing the problem.
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There are two sides to this coin and you bring a valid point to the discussion. Perhaps a bit more history on the young man could shed some light on the subject.

But you were once a teenager. It's easy to follow a crowd especially when you think the hood you have on will hide you. I applaud her reactive efforts sure. But at the same time, we don't know the full history here.
 
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Carl Pickens said:
I just read an article that's claiming Gray had neck surgery as recent as last weekend and it linked to a Maryland court case website. It has a case number as well and it was a civil case between Gray and Allstate involving a structured settlement.
The slant was that Gray may have been previously injured in an auto accident and had surgery or surgeries on his neck.
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Very strange...

In his documents, Freddie Gray checked "work injury, medical malpractice and auto accident" as the type of accident. When asked to explain, he also wrote something that is unreadable. He also wrote something unreadable when asked if he was a minor when the case was settled.

Both cases were filed at the same time by a New Jersey law firm. A judge dismissed the case on April 2 when neither Gray nor his sister appeared in court, records show.
 
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I cannot believe that someone would take a great moment of that Mom berating her kid -- something that in the context of what was happening was great and necessary and to be applauded-- and use it to assail the mom's choices 18 years ago so as to reinforce your petty, racial stereotypes.

Truly the most pathetic thing I've seen here, ever. Just can't celebrate and congratulate her for doing the right thing now, can you? You just have to find a way to make it about another black woman having kids in other than Ozzie and Harriett circumstances. Jerk.
 
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Carl Pickens said:
I just read an article that's claiming Gray had neck surgery as recent as last weekend and it linked to a Maryland court case website. It has a case number as well and it was a civil case between Gray and Allstate involving a structured settlement.
The slant was that Gray may have been previously injured in an auto accident and had surgery or surgeries on his neck.
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I haven't seen links to actual documents, so at this point I'm wondering if it is propaganda.
 
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