A mom, a disabled son and a home that blazed amid Baltimore's riots

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BALTIMORE — Black soot covers the two-story house like a dark shadow. The roof has collapsed, and a bright red sign proclaims the home has been condemned.

Until a few weeks ago, when the riots roiled Baltimore, this house at Hilton Street and Piedmont Avenue was home for Laporsha Lawson and her severely disabled son, Khai'Lee Sampson.

The liquor store adjacent to Lawson's home started burning about 1 a.m. on April 28. Lawson awoke, raced up the stairs to grab Khai'Lee and rushed him to her parents' home about a block away, moments before flames engulfed the house.

"They took everything from my child," said Lawson, 28.

The wheelchair customized for Khai'Lee's small body, the back brace that helps him sit upright, the machine that pumps oxygen into his lungs when he stops breathing at night — all were destroyed. So were the supplies for his feeding tube, his clothes, even his new swing.

As Lawson cradled the 7-year-old on her parents' sofa recently, she said she felt betrayed by her neighborhood.

While she understands the rioters' anger at the death of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old who suffered a spinal injury in police custody, she can't understand why people would destroy their own community.

"Everybody wants justice for Freddie Gray," said Lawson. "But what about justice for Khai'Lee?"

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Baltimore teen turns himself in after damaging a police car, faces $500k bail and life in prison...

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Allen Bullock, the 18-year-old seen in photos smashing in a police car with a traffic cone, turned himself in after being encouraged by his parents. But now he is being held on $500,000 bail, an amount his parents cannot afford, The Guardian reports. 

Bullock faces charges of rioting and malicious destruction of property, among other criminal counts, after turning himself in at the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center with his stepfather, Maurice Hawkins, at his side. According to Hawkins, who saw footage of his stepson on Saturday, the teen agreed to turn himself in after his stepfather told him that the police would "find him, knock down our door and beat him" if he didn't, The Guardian notes. 

However, no good deed goes unpunished, and Hawkins now believes that they are making an example of the teen. "By turning himself in, he also let me know he was growing as a man and he recognized what he did was wrong," Hawkins told The Guardian on Wednesday. "But they are making an example of him, and it is not right." 

"As parents, we wanted Allen to do the right thing," Bullock's mother, Bobbi Smallwood, said. "He was dead wrong, and he does need to be punished. But he wasn't leading this riot. He hasn't got that much power." 

Hawkins noted that the proposed amount is higher than that placed on some accused murderers in the city. "Who could afford to pay that?" the stepfather asked. 

"If they let him go, he could at least save some money and pay them back for the damage he did," his mother agreed. 

The eight misdemeanor charges Bullock face are his first as an adult, with rioting carrying a maximum of life in prison. The Guardian, however, says that his parents believe that four to eight years is a more likely sentence. Bullock, who was convicted of minor offenses as a juvenile, was working in city sanitation under a program for people in juvenile probation, The Guardian notes, earning more than $15,000 a year. 

His parents say that the teen was accused of inciting the clashes that started boiling over on Saturday, but they deny that claim. 

"Teenagers follow one another," Hawkins said. "That's just what they do." 

When asked if they regretted encouraging the teen to turn himself in, his stepfather remained adamant, saying, "I know what would happen to him if he hadn't." 

His mother didn't feel the same way. "I do," she said. 

Something interesting about Freddie Gray's transport. A MUST READ

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The person in this video tries to make good points for somebody.

Let's see:

1. Officer says whatever happened to Freddie Gray happened before he was transported.

Clue #1: Witness says he was kicking and screaming in the van.
Clue#2: Hospital staff says his larynx and spine was severed.

Question #1: Then how could he be screaming, cursing and kicking in the van if it happened before he was transported or if his voice box was messed up?

Question #2: If handcuffed, how can you reach your throat?

Question #3: Why or how could you give yourself a concussion, break your back, and destroy your voice box?

Obvious answer: After he was transported. Also she says in a part that's not in the video "The only one's that know what happened are Freddie Gray and the one's that injured Freddie Gray.  I don't know anybody that would want to whip their own a@# that bad. Lies. I guess their trying to find a way out instead of fessing up.

Police had him before and police had him after. So I believe she has answered that question.

2. She says "How would anybody be doing in a situation like this, where you go out and risk your life, you make a little bit of money. When something bad happens, nobody is standing behind you such as your city that you served". Police are human beings not robots.

Oh Boo Hoo.

Here's my comparison:

Inner city people try to go out and risk their life to do whatever they can to survive since some can't work due to the police brutality, the lies, and the countless alleged crimes put on people's records. Inner city people make a little bit of money. When something bad happens, nobody is standing behind them such as their city. Inner city people are human beings and not robots. So who are the thugs. If police aren't then inner city people aren't. Now that's E=MC squared.

Sounds like the same thing except the police haven't been being attacked, harassed and lied on, on a daily basis. They haven't been in jail for years for alleged crimes and being forced into plea deals.

You say the gov is doing a great job they have a 95% conviction rate ridding crime. You say, if they were innocent why did they take a plea deal?

Let's see:

Question: What deal would you take if you were offered this? You can do a year if you take this deal or if you take this to trial you could get 17 years. Which would you take? That's why.

Yet marijuana is legal in some states. So is marijuana a crime or is it not a crime? Kinda makes me wonder what's really a crime and what isn't? Somebody's confused. Oh I get it now, it's illegal when gov can't make money, then it's ok when gov can make close to a half a million dollars in the first year. Sounds like a good case for expungements and releases, with pay.

Wake up
Keep the peace
RIP Freddie Gray and all that have died from the hands of others

Vigilantes With a Badge: The War Against the American People

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WORLD WAR III The War Against The People

The following incidents are cautionary tales for anyone who still thinks that they can defy police officers, even if it's simply to disagree about a speeding ticket, challenge a search warrant or defend oneself against an unreasonable or unjust charge, without deadly repercussions. The message they send is that "we the people" have very little protection from the standing army that is law enforcement.

For example, Seattle police repeatedly tasered seven-months pregnant Malaika Brooks for refusing to sign a speeding ticket. While Brooks bears permanent burn scars on her body from the encounter, police were cleared of any wrongdoing on the grounds that they didn't know that tasering a pregnant woman was wrong.

Eight Los Angeles police officers fired 103 bullets at two women in a newspaper delivery truck they mistook for a getaway car during a heated manhunt. The older woman was shot twice in the back and the other was wounded by broken glass. The women were offered a $4.2 million settlement for their injuries, while the officers were reprimanded for acting inappropriately, "retrained" and put back on the streets.

During the course of a routine investigation, a group of Los Angeles police officers beat, punched, and tasered Kelly Thomas, schizophrenic, homeless and suspected of vandalizing cars, until he was brain dead. The two officers charged for their role in the beating were acquitted and will face no time in prison. A third officer who was supposed to be charged will also walk free.
New York City police, pursuing a man who had reportedly been weaving among cars in Times Square, fired into a crowd, shooting a 54-year-old woman in the knee and another woman in the buttocks. Although the officers faced no repercussions for their reckless behavior, prosecutors charged the suspect with felony assault on the grounds that he was responsible for the injuries caused by the police.

Chicago police arrested, beat, and sodomized with a gun Angel Perez, pushing in his eye sockets, driving his elbows back into his head, and sticking a gun into his rectum, all in an effort to "persuade" him to be a drug informant. All of the officers remain in active duty, patrolling the streets.
Houston police shot and killed Brian Claunch, a mentally ill double amputee, who had refused to drop a ballpoint pen. The police officer was cleared of any misconduct and remains on the force. Curiously, in the last six years, the Houston Police Department has yet to find a single police shooting unjustified. Between 2007 and 2012, the HPD officers injured 111 civilians while fatally shooting 109 people.

There can no longer be any doubt that armed police officers, the end product of the government -- federal, local and state -- and law enforcement agencies having merged, have become a "standing" or permanent army, composed of full-time professional soldiers who do not disband. Yet these permanent armies are exactly what those who drafted the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights feared as tools used by despotic governments to wage war against its citizens. That is exactly what we are witnessing today: a war against the American citizenry.

Let that sink in a moment, and then consider that not a day goes by without reports of police officers overstepping the bounds of the Constitution and brutalizing, terrorizing and killing the citizenry. Indeed, the list of incidents in which unaccountable police abuse their power, betray their oath of office and leave taxpayers bruised, broken and/or killed grows longer and more tragic by the day to such an extent that Americans are now eight times more likely to die in a police confrontation than they are to be killed by a terrorist.
Making matters worse, when these so-called "peace" officers violate their oaths by bullying, beating, tasering, shooting and killing, they are rarely given more than a slap on the hands before resuming their patrols. Ironically, even when their victims are awarded multi-million dollar settlements, it's the taxpayers who must sacrifice, scrimp and save in order to pay for their transgressions, all the while, the officers continue to collect regular paychecks, benefits and pensions.

Before I am drowned out by howls of outrage from those who consider all individuals in uniform blameless and noble to a fault, let me acknowledge that there are undeniably many honorable law enforcement officials (some of whom are among my closest friends) who strive to abide by their oath to uphold the Constitution and serve and protect the citizens of their communities. However, they are fast becoming a minority in a sea of police officers who take advantage of their broad discretion and repeatedly step beyond the bounds of the law, ignoring their responsibility to respect the Bill of Rights. These latter individuals are little more than vigilantes -- albeit vigilantes with a badge -- and our communities are presently being overrun by individuals entrusted with enforcing the law who are allowed to operate above the law and break the laws with impunity.

As I document in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, for real change to occur, it will take Americans getting outraged enough to speak up and speak out. It will take them showing up at City Council meetings, picketing in front of police stations, and demanding that their concerns, complaints and fears about police brutality -- not only for themselves but for their fellow citizens of lesser incomes, darker skin tones and questionable lifestyles -- be acknowledged and acted upon.
To put it another way, there can be no hope for freedom unless "we the people" recognize that every time the police shoot an unarmed citizen, taser an elderly person, or beat someone senseless or crash through a homeowner's door, they are really shooting me, tasering you, and beating senseless your children, your neighbors and your loved ones.

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There is a serious epidemic happening all over the US. We need to make serious changes mentally and economically. Wars are big business for government it counts on our egos, our ignorance and our hate. Riots and damage = Arrests, damaged lives on both sides (law enforcement & communities, full jailhouses and money for costs/court fees. Then what, we repeat it all over again. Remember my other blog post where I mentioned "Doing the same thing over and over again expecting something different is the definition of insanity".  It's no longer actually physical, it's really mental. A system that doesn't exist without any of us is using all of us (law enforcement and communities) against each other. Just watch the riots and really see what you're looking at. Game needs to recognize game. Who actually wins?

 

Wake Up Everybody

Keep The Peace

RIP Freddie Grey

For the bible tells me so.

[cf. Mark 13:8]

"For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will also be famines. These things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.

 

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On Saturday, over 2,000 protesters marched to Baltimore's City Hall to protest the death of 25-year-old black man Freddie Gray. Gray died on April 19 after suffering a spinal injury while in Baltimore Police Department custody a week earlier. At some point between when Gray was put into a police van and shackled and the time paramedics were called over half an hour later, something nasty happened.

According to Gray's family attorney, his spine was 80% severed at the neck. Deputy Police Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez admits that Gray gave up without the use of force.

Since then, thousands of people have taken to the streets every day to demonstrate against the fate that befell Freddie Gray and countless other people who have been killed by police in America. But on Saturday night, a small minority of Baltimore's residents decided to irresponsibly engage in property destruction and acts of violence — and the media lost its mind.

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