YES! Finally the police have been charged in Gray’s murder.
27%
NO! No justice until police are convicted and put in jail.
73%
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Long ago -over 40 years,(can't deny I'm an old lady), my friend and I went shopping. Ruth was in early labor, very early, and I was an experienced L&D nurse - she probably had me along to make sure she didn't eat anything. When the contractions started to become painful, she called Jean Claude, her husband, to come pick usr up. As we got in his car (Claude is black, Ruth & I , white, such as it is) I looked up & made eye contact with a white guy across the street. I saw so much hate in his face, I've not been able to forget, even all these years later. I think I know why Freddie Gray ran,
No. What we've seen is media induced expedency. The rioters, and the especially the media, applied enough pressure to force an arrest; in this case, a blanket arrest of everyone involved with Gray that day. They'll worry about "justice" later. The point of the arrests were, I think, to tone down the intensity of the rioting and looting (because, after all, we know that the best way to honor and remember Freddie Gray is by throwing rocks, pipes, bottles, and everything else at the cops and firefighters while robbing stores and burning down buildings and, cutting fire hoses; not to mention trashing his neighborhood). This has a long way to go before there any assemblance of "justice", for Gray, the officers arrested, and for the City of Baltimore. Besides, the law is rarely if ever about "justice". It's about the facts and interpeting those facts.