As it turns out, the only crime Freddie Gray was accused of at the time of his fatal arrest and Nickel Ride was carrying a switchblade. Except the knife wasn't a switchblade. It was an ordinary, legal, pocketknife.
The Raw Story picked up this one:
http://www.rawstory.com/...
They, and I want to know: Where are the gun-bunnies?
More below...
From the article...
Among the surprising things we learned today from Baltimore’s chief prosecutor Marilyn Mosby — besides the news that she was indicting six Baltimore police officers for the death of Freddie Gray — was that Gray’s ordeal began with an improper arrest.
Police had claimed that Gray was arrested for possessing an illegal weapon — a spring-loaded switchblade. Gray was arrested on April 12 and put into handcuffs and shackles for his ankles. Police then loaded him into the back of a police van. But by the end of his ride to jail, he’d suffered a severed spine, resulting in his death seven days later.
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Mosby also announced that in fact, the weapon police found on Gray was not illegal after all. He was in possession of a knife that was not only legal under Maryland law, but its blade was tucked in a safe position and was inside his pocket.
Freddie Gray, it turns out, was legally bearing arms, as the Second Amendment of the Constitution guarantees.
His arrest, and his death, appear to be a violation of a number of his civil rights, and those rights include his Second Amendment rights to carry a weapon.
And it turns out that there are a number of organizations that make an awful lot of noise about our Second Amendment rights.
Aren't the Second Amendment folks out there protecting our freedom? Where are you, Wayne LaPierre?
HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO????!!!!
ANYBODY HOME????!!!
They're normally quite passionate about this...
But now they're asleep at the switch! All I hear are crickets
Oops, silly me, I forgot the unwritten rule. In Post-Racial America, weapons are for white people.