Protests - Even Violent Protests Are NOT a Lynch Mob

This is Freddie Gray, hit, wounded, but alive right before they threw him into the Police VAan.

Let us begin with the facts before we go all fuck-wad crazy.  Freddie Grey was chased through housing projects in Baltimore before he was caught.   One can assume, if you like, that he committed a crime or was a suspect in a crime.  Baltimore police, the ones who chased and then killed him, have not asserted either thing.  He was chased because he ran.  He ran, friends say, because he was afraid of the police.  Since he later died of a SEVERED SPINAL CORD, I say he was probably justified in his fear.
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He was chased, perhaps beaten after the chase, had his hands secured behind his back and thrown in a police van with metal bench seats, where he was not put into restraints and then driven violently - against regulations (which require (not suggest) a seat belt and immediate redirection to a hospital when a subject is wounded) to the police station for hours before being handed off to a hospital where he died later of massive trauma and partially severed spinal cord.

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The people of Baltimore, where this type of injury has occurred before, protested loudly and long.  Although non-violently originally.
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The Police Captain called this loud, non-violent protest a "lynch mob".  A "Lynch Mob" is not a non-violent protest.  The head of a Police Force that has uncharged suspect die in custody - died from injuries caused while the in Police custody - is so incorrect in calling peaceful protests a "lynch mob" that no amount of shame or anger will change anything.

These were shots of the original protests - asking - nay demanding answers!

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The public - after being called a "lynch mob", but receiving no information about the death of Freddie Gray, protested over the week-end.  On Saturday, the frustrated and taunted crowd turned violent and the a few protesters rioted and looted.  Which provided the Police with the happy ability to arrest protests, hit them with nightsticks (although they didn't kill anyone this time) and go on TV calling the people of Baltimore criminals.  They still haven't said shit about why Freddie Gray died in their custody or what he did wrong.

This is an actual "Lynch Mob".  The Baltimore Police should know because, per Univ. of Mo - St. Louis, rom 1882 - 1968 Maryland suffered 29 lynchings.  Of those 93% (al but 1) where white on black lynchings.  This - pictured - is a "Lynch Mob".  People - no matter how many - asking why a boy died is NOT a Lynch Mob.

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If this happened in Iran, or China or South Africa - we Americans would roundly condemn the authorities, call them a police state and Republicans would fire off a letter cutting off aid or whining about the President not supporting the protesters (as they literally did in Iran).  But since these are black Americans the country doesn't do shit.
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Jesus Wept.
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This they will talk about.