{"id":181551,"date":"2016-05-23T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/23\/this-sucks\/"},"modified":"2016-05-23T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T00:11:00","slug":"this-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/23\/this-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"This Sucks\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 trials, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/freddie-gray\/bs-md-ci-nero-verdict-20160521-story.html\">no convictions against the cops who killed Freddie Gray<\/a>:<br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Baltimore Circuit Judge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/topic\/crime-law-justice\/barry-williams-PEGPF00124-topic.html\">Barry Williams<\/a> rejected the state&#8217;s case Monday against Officer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/topic\/crime-law-justice\/law-enforcement\/edward-nero-PEGPF00109-topic.html\">Edward Nero<\/a>, acquitting him on all counts for his role in the arrest of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/freddie-gray\/\">Freddie Gray<\/a>.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">The verdict, which followed a five-day bench trial, is the first in the closely watched case. Nero, 30, had faced misdemeanor charges of second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and two counts of misconduct in office. The 25-year-old Gray died last year of injuries sustained while riding in the back of a police transport van.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to think that all these cops are going to walk. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 trials, and no convictions against the cops who killed Freddie Gray: Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry Williams rejected the state&#8217;s case Monday against Officer Edward Nero, acquitting him on all counts for his role in the arrest of Freddie Gray.The verdict, which followed a five-day bench trial, is the first in the closely watched case. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[972,1041,1071,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-maryland","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}