BREAKING: Freddie Gray Officer Acquitted Of All Charges

JUDGE FINDS NERO NOT GUILTY

Police Officer Edward Nero has been acquitted of all charges in the Freddie Gray case. Nero is the second officer to be cleared in the contentious case that roiled Baltimore and sent parts of the city into flames last Summer.

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Reporter Brian Kuebler shares details from inside the courthouse following the verdict.

A Maryland judge acquitted Baltimore police Officer Edward Nero of all charges Monday in the controversial case of Freddie Gray, whose death last year touched off sometimes violent protests in the city and reignited Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the nation. Nero, who is white, was the second of six officers to face trial and the first to obtain a verdict. The first case ended in a hung jury and will be retried. Nero, 30, had declined a jury trial, and Judge Barry Williams heard testimony that wrapped up last week. Nero was found not guilty of assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment.

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[DailyBail]

A Maryland judge acquitted Baltimore police Officer Edward Nero of all charges Monday in the controversial case of Freddie Gray, whose death last year touched off sometimes violent protests in the city and reignited Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the nation.

Nero, who is white, was the second of six officers to face trial and the first to obtain a verdict. The first case ended in a hung jury and will be retried. Nero, 30, had declined a jury trial, and Judge Barry Williams heard testimony that wrapped up last week. Nero was found not guilty of assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake issued a statement immediately after the verdict was announced asking for calm.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/05/23/verdict-freddie-gray-police-trial-due-monday/84767208/

[skinflint]

This guy already had problems before they threw him in the van. There were reports around here that seemed to suggest that he had recently had a spinal fusion done. Of course he did himself no favors.

[john]

Skin, did you see this?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/23/politics/supreme-court-racial-discrimination/

Justice Thomas was the sole dissenter in this ruling. The perp was black and unfortunately there were racist overtones in the jury selection process. This guy should be hung by his balls and lit on fire for what he did. Racism doesn't pay as is clearly demonstrated here.

Sorry I never answered your question about the ridge lines/turbines. I would be inclined to believe that local fire crews will have their work cut out for them in the future. The land is most likely owned by REIT's.

[skinflint]

I would think the land is owned by the utility. Either way, these ridge lines are clear cut so as to remove any carbon removing ability that can be had by the amount of trees available. And these things are an eye sore PLUS, as you pointed out, these things are put together fairly close, thereby reducing their ability to create electricity.
Anyway, jury selection is an ongoing problem. They tried to get Gray's case moved out to the county in which I reside. That motion was struck down with the judge basically saying that there was really no where that a fair trial was possible due to the publicity the trial would generate.

[john]

Nope, I guarantee the land is privately owned and is leased. The utility only buys the electricity from the plant in long term Power Purchase Agreements (PPA). The developer pays the lease. These leases and PPA's can be up to 50 years in length. Seeing the failure rate of turbines seem to be between 3 to 10 years in a lot of cases, you can see what is coming on just that alone. Insurance companies certainly didn't come through on hurricanes and with all the offshore wind being proposed, a major bailout shit storm is a brewing. They sent linemen from New England packing after a couple of weeks who were working on restoring power after Katrina because they ran out of money.

[skinflint]

So we will be looking at these effin pieces of shit for years to come after the fall. Gives me such a warm fuzzy and all of that.

[john]

Obama and cronies are doing a full court press now. Have you seen the news about Bank of America getting a pass on the mortgage fraud? Deutche Bank is being looked at (mortgages among other things) and we all know how that will work out. The carbon issue regarding the clearing is a non issue. You see the media pushing the Zika thingy, which I BELIEVE is pure 100% FDA approved bullshit, and know that bats and birds do a wonderful job of dealing with items such as this. I leave you with a Benjamin Franklin Quote:

“In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.”

~Letter to Richard Jackson May 5th 1753~

[skinflint]

Yes. BOA gets a pass. All of them have. Drugs, gun running, human trafficking and all the rest. We oughta have a hanging party, but, I know I don't have enough rope.

[DailyBail]

Yeah, I'll get something up on BofA before the morning. I went golfing tonight for about 2 hours, for the first time in 52 days since I started back on the site. I played 18 holes in 2 hours and 10 minutes. Sorry it's raining so much in Bal'more Skin cuz it was 84 and gorgeous here the last 2 days.