Here's some disturbing news from Baltimore:
Prosecutors dropped all remaining charges against three Baltimore police officers accused in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray in a downtown courtroom on Wednesday morning, concluding one of the most high-profile criminal cases in Baltimore history.
The startling move was an apparent acknowledgement of the unlikelihood of a conviction following the acquittals of three other officers on similar and more serious charges by Circuit Judge Barry G. Williams, who was expected to preside over the remaining trials as well.
It also means the office of Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby will secure no convictions in the case after more than a year of dogged fighting, against increasingly heavy odds, to hold someone criminally accountable in Gray's death.
You can read the rest @
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/freddie-gray/bs-md-ci-miller-pretrial-motions-20160727-story.html
In an apparently unrelated incident, 14 show dogs died of heatstroke while riding in a truck. It doesn't sound like that driver will be punished either. You can read about it here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/show-dogs-dead-indiana-14-air-conditioning-truck-30-degree-heat-a7155896.html
At the risk of sounding uncaring, I think most white Americans are bothered more by the death of the dogs than they are by the death of Freddie Gray. And that is a crying shame.
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