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It's been two years since Freddie Gray died in custody and nothing is changed since then.
Its been two years since Freddie Gray died from injuries he sustained while in custody of the Baltimore Police Department. But in the Charm City, aint shit change, Black Lives Matter movement activists tweeted Wednesday.
Even if little appears to have changed on the police force or in the ways officers treat city residents, there has been some movement. In April 2015, the states attorneys office charged six officers in connection to the neck and back injuries Gray sustained, which led to his death, during a rough ride in a police van on April 12, 2015, after days of protests and civil unrest in the majority-black city.
Although those officers were acquitted in trials or had charges dropped against them, the U.S. Department of Justice investigated police abuse and sued the city into a police reform agreement known as a consent decree. And now, its up to city leaders to follow through on those reforms, civil rights leaders said.
More: https://blackmattersus.com/32651-two-years-since-freddie-grays-death/
Two years to the day and now there is AG Jeff Sessions, the US Attorney General for all the US. A Racist, Bigot and small minded man already trying to stop the good, and give more empowerment to the PDs. He wants to give them free rein to use excessive force without any repercussions. They are of course above the law.
The land of the free men...and your home if you are white. Minorities need not apply. The abominations in the WHITE HOUSE don't want you here. They want to make amerikka great again in their pasty white dull image, application requirements, white skin and a penis...you are in.
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Freddie, rest in peace. May the Freddie Gray Empowerment Center give hope and new life and futures to others, ones that you were denied in your short life.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)I try not to place too much on the Presidency alone but this one was extremely important. We had a sustained and loud conversation going on about civil rights. Clinton didn't have all of the ideas we need but she had a lot of them and was clearly willing to listen to all. The election of Trump has really taken the focus of the message that was there before. By no means has the fight dissipated. We are simply fighting more fronts now.
Freddie Gray
sheshe2
(84,005 posts)sheshe2
(84,005 posts)Silence.