US police shot and killed nearly 400 people during the first five months of this year, according to a front-page report published Sunday by the Washington Post. The death rate from police violence against the people they allegedly “serve and protect” amounts to 2.6 per day, or about one person every nine hours. At that rate, American police will shoot to death nearly 1,000 people this year.
The Post study counts only victims of police gunshots, excluding those who die in police custody from other forms of violence, such as Freddie Gray in Baltimore, who died April 19 of a fractured spine after a deliberate “rough ride” in the back of a police van.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/06/01/kill-j01.html
By the way, Freddie Gray wasn't just given a "rough ride". The facts in the case strongly suggest that he was murdered by the police:
Law Dictionary: What is MURDER? definition of MURDER (Black's Law Dictionary)
The crime committed where a person of sound mind and discretion (that is, of sufficient age to form and execute a criminal design and not legally “insane”) kills any human creature in being (excluding quick but unborn children) and in the peace of the state or nation (including all persons except the military forces of the public enemy in time of war or battle) without any warrant, justification, or excuse in law, with malice aforethought, express or implied, that is, with a deliberate purpose or a design or determination distinctly formed in the mind before the commission of the act, provided that death results from the injury Inflicted within one year and a day after its infliction.
http://thelawdictionary.org/murder/
So, US police can kill you, confiscate your property, and take away your children at the drop of a hat. What's next?
And we call ourselves a "free nation"? What a sick joke.
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