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In reply to the discussion: I think the Baltimore cops were cowboying around resulting in the fatal injury to Freddie. [View all]FarPoint
(12,359 posts)22. I'm throwing this OP post out here to get feedback...
I know we have to wait for the autopsy report etc,,,, I always want to understand what happened. I'm just speculating....like anyone else.
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I think the Baltimore cops were cowboying around resulting in the fatal injury to Freddie. [View all]
FarPoint
Apr 2015
OP
The malice is where they broke his neck and then left him unstrapped to rough ride him.
bravenak
Apr 2015
#2
a freak accident? try getting knocked off your bike onto pavement and let 4 men crush you down &
Sunlei
Apr 2015
#56
yes, your police are such gentle souls,they never knock anyone to pavement and pile on.
Sunlei
Apr 2015
#63
Someone screams like that and you keep dragging them in cuffs to a van
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2015
#20
"Cowboying Around Hmmm.." It's all good fun right? From Movie Death Proof ....
Katashi_itto
Apr 2015
#16
You keep talking about what you don't see. So what is it, exactly, that you do see?
Brickbat
Apr 2015
#27
Oh, I totally understand! I'm just interested in what you DO see, after all you said you DON'T see:
Brickbat
Apr 2015
#40
Cowboying? No, more like an evil fictional sheriff imposing street justice
HereSince1628
Apr 2015
#28
you can see the neck position of the man, & the extension of one leg as police drag him to the van.
Sunlei
Apr 2015
#44
Punishing someone because you had to chase them would certainly count as 'malicious'. n/t
PoliticAverse
Apr 2015
#46
callous disregard to another person's pain and suffering is malicious. nt
La Lioness Priyanka
Apr 2015
#70
You do realize that was a fucking human being you are discussing so callously in your OP
Number23
Apr 2015
#94
Since Baltimore PD has paid for other cases like this causing paralysis and death
csziggy
Apr 2015
#104
I agree it was malicious but I don't think a charge of intentional murder will ever be made.
randome
Apr 2015
#106
yeah. sorry, i thought you agreed with OP about lack of malice. my bad
La Lioness Priyanka
Apr 2015
#114
Intentionally hurting another person is malice/malicious by the very definition of the word.
herding cats
Apr 2015
#117