'Lock Up All The Black Hoodies': DOJ Report Details Abuses By Baltimore Police

[axelord157]

[URL="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/10/489505940/lock-up-all-the-black-hoodies-doj-report-details-abuses-by-baltimore-police?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news"]SOURCE[/URL]
[URL="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3010023-BPD-Findings-Report-FINAL.html#document/p30/a313379"]Link to the Report[/URL]

[QUOTE]In a damning report released Wednesday, the Department of Justice details the ways in which the Baltimore Police Department has violated the rights of the people its officers are sworn to protect.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]The problems detailed in the 163-page report are broad and deep. But they're specific, too: a "pattern or practice" of discrimination is, of course, made of moments.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]To be clear, the report emphasizes that this is [I]not[/I] a case of a few bad apples. The problems are systemic — supervisors, policies, weak investigations and officer culture all play a role, the DOJ found.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]The report, based on interviews with more than 500 people and a review of hundreds of thousands of pages of documents, is packed with statistics and analysis. Alongside the numbers, time and again, it highlights individual victims and specific acts of violence.[/QUOTE]

[TornadoAP]

If anyone still thinks that Freddie Gray's death wasn't unjustified after this, they're just deluding themselves.

[MaximLaHaxim]

[quote=The Report]In some cases, unconstitutional stops result from supervisory officers' explicit instructions. During a ride-along with Justice Department officials, a BPD sergeant instructed a patrol officer to stop a group of African-American males on a street corner, question them, and order them to disperse. When the patrol officer protested that he had no valid reason to stop the group, the sergeant replied "Then make something up." This incident is far from anomalous.[/quote]

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[Geel]

[QUOTE=TornadoAP;50863728]If anyone still thinks that Freddie Gray's death wasn't unjustified after this, they're just deluding themselves.[/QUOTE]

That's not really valid, though.

That's like saying that if a convicted murderer kills someone, it was [b]absolutely[/b] murder, and couldn't have been self-defense.