Will there be outrage?

"The men and women who go out every day to protect us, the men and women who go out every day to make sure that we're safe, they were turned on (Saturday) night," stated Mayor Johnnie DuPree.







Officer Benjamin Deen, 34 and rookie Officer Liqouri Tate, 25, made what started as a routine traffic stop in Hattiesburg MS during the evening of May 9 2015.  Two residents, Tamika Mills and Pearnell Roberts were driving down Fourth St when they noticed what they described as a bunch of lights.  One of them noticed what she thought was someone lying on the ground and they turned the car around to investigate.

They found one officer down and noticed a second one moving on the ground nearby.  That officer was gravely wounded and stated "Am I dying?  I know I'm dying.  Just hand me my walkie-talkie."  Mills and Pearnell called 911 to report that the officers had been shot and were down.  Both officers were transported to Forrest general Hospital where they were pronounced dead.

The police state that one of the pair of officers had stopped a 2000 Gold Cadillac Escalade at about 8:30 pm and the second officer had arrived to assist on the call.  The shots rang out after the second officer had arrived on the scene.  One of the police cars had been stolen and used as a getaway car after the shooting.  The residents were warned to stay inside while they searched for whoever was responsible for the shootings.

The hunt for the suspects was very brief and they have all three people they believe are responsible in custody now with no resistance.  Marvin Banks, 29, was arrested by police at 1 am at the Northgate Inn Hotel nearby and the Hyundai he was driving with retired Army plates was towed from the scene.  His brother Curtis Banks, 26, was arrested at the Plantation Place apartment complex at around 3 am and police report that both of the banks brothers lived close to where the shooting took place.  Curtis's only statement then was that he had not shot the officers.  Marvin's girlfriend, Joanie Calloway, 22, was also arrested overnight since she had been riding in the car when the shooting happened.

Curtis Banks & Marvin Banks

Joanie Calloway

Curtis Banks arrested

Marvin and Calloway have both been charged with two counts of capital murder, Marvin is also charged with one count of grand theft auto for fleeing in the stolen police car and one one count of a felon being in possession of a firearm.  His brother Curtis has been charged with two counts of accessory after the fact so far.  The police did not report if there would be other charges added yet.  They did state that both men have multiple arrests for weapons and guns charges in the past and they both have felony convictions but they did elaborate on those convictions.

Officer Tate had only been an officer for less than one year and had been excited to announce when he had graduated from the police academy in June of 2014.  Officer Deen was a decorated K-9 officer who had been named the city's Officer of the Year in 2012.  Officer Tate was unmarried but Officer Deen was and leaves behind a wife and two children, a 9 year old son and a 13 year old daughter.  Their deaths are the first in the past three decades for the town of Hattiesburg MS, the last officer to be killed was Officer Jackie Dole Sherrill who was killed on Dec 31 1984 while she was serving a felony warrant.  She was also the first female officer to serve in their department.  The families of both Deen and Tate have stated that being a police officer had been lifelong dreams for the two of them.

Officer Tate

Officer Jackie Dole Sherrill

Officer Deen and his K-9 Tomi

We have just buried another young officer whose lifelong dream was to be a police officer in New York City.  Today is Mother's Day and two mothers will be without their sons because they were killed doing their jobs.  There were no mass protests when Officer Brian Moore, 25 was shot and killed by Demetrius Blackwell, 35, in NYC NY.  Thousands of officers came to attend his funeral but there was no representative from the White House attending.

President Obama did send representatives from the White House to the funeral of Michael Brown in MO and has "honored" Freddie Gray and always manages to get Trayvon Martin's name into speeches about young black men dying at the hands of the police.  Somewhere along the line our administration and a large portion of the public has lost sight of who we really should be worried about.

Michael Brown had just robbed a store and minutes later wrestled an officer for his gun.  Freddie Gray had a long history of arrests and Trayvon was not killed by a police officer.  Trayvon was killed by a hispanic civilian while he tried to pound that man's head into the concrete.  Blackwell had already served 8 years in prison for an attempted murder conviction in 2000 and yet when the news stories point to the "plight" of the poor black young men who are dying at the hands of the police, they skip right past the point of criminals returning to the streets to continue breaking the law.

The riots in Baltimore have seemingly been put on hold by the rush to charge the officers who are being charged with Gray's death.  The crowds insist that they are trying to protest the police brutality that exists in their cities but once the identities of the officers were released, the protests died.  Three of the officers charged are black and the officer charged with the most serious charge for driving the van is black.  It seems very strange that the protests died that suddenly.  There were protests in NYC in support of Freddie Gray but there were none in support of Officer Moore who died at the hands of a black repeat criminal.

The nation is again having to face the deaths of two young officers who lost their lives to criminals while they were doing their job.  I doubt that there will even be a protest and I also doubt that President Obama will even mention their deaths.  It is a shame to try and spin police brutality as the reason behind the recent riots.............. they are criminals who do not care whether they kill people of any race.



Related stories on this blog:

http://wreckvhavoc.blogspot.com/2015/05/do-right-thing.html

http://wreckvhavoc.blogspot.com/2015/04/just-destruction.html

http://wreckvhavoc.blogspot.com/search?q=fake+gun

http://wreckvhavoc.blogspot.com/2014/08/where-is-outrage.html

http://wreckvhavoc.blogspot.com/2014/11/its-fair-burn-it.html

http://wreckvhavoc.blogspot.com/2014/10/it-is-their-job.html

http://wreckvhavoc.blogspot.com/2014/08/justified.html






http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/05/09/two-hattiesburg-police-officers-killed/27072893/


http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/10/us/mississippi-police-officers-shot-dead/

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/mississippi-police-officers-dead-shooting-article-1.2216952

http://www.businessinsider.com/two-police-officers-shot-and-killed-in-mississippi-2015-5

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3075250/Officials-2-Mississippi-police-officers-shot-1-fatally.html

http://www.gulflive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/05/2_mississippi_cops_shot_killed.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3066391/Man-35-charged-attempted-murder-shooting-NYPD-cop-head-chest-officer-sat-unmarked-car.html

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/08/obama-ignores-slain-white-police-officer-while-honoring-gray-and-brown/



Update:

Clark

The police have arrested a fourth person connected to the shooting of officers Deen and Tate.  Cornelius Clark was arrested later on Sunday and has been charged with obstruction of justice.  There has been no statement yet as to what the possible motive for the shooting is but there has been more information released as to the criminal records of the Banks brothers.

Marvin Banks had been convicted of possession of stolen property in November 2010 and was sentenced to serve a year and a day for the conviction.  That sentence was to be followed by four years of probation which was revoked and Marvin was back in jail until June 2012.  He was released then with an earned release under supervision which ended in May 2014.  Marvin and his brother Curtis were both charged with the sale of crack cocaine in July 2013 but there was no further report as to how the charges were handled.




http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/10/us/mississippi-police-officers-shot-dead/

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/05/09/two-hattiesburg-police-officers-killed/27072893/


Update May 11 2015:

Marvin Banks's mother has spoken out about her son and his arrest.  Mary Smith states that she knows that he has been smoking synthetic marijuana, "spice" on a daily basis and that he has been hearing voices since he had been hit on the head with a pipe several years ago.  Marvin and his six year old son live with his mother Mary and she works the night shift at a nursing home.  She stated that she was resting before she went to work on Saturday when she received a phone call that told her there had been a shooting of two officers and that Marvin was involved.  Soon after that she received a call from her son Curtis and he told her that he had nothing to do with the shooting and had been home in his apartment the whole time.

Smith went on to say that she believed that Marvin was probably high when he was arrested because he looked it in the pictures of him.  She stated that Marvin had been attacked several years ago and hit with a pipe.  He spent time in intensive care and Marvin began hearing voices after that.  Katie Walmon, the mother of Marvin's son stated that Marvin had changed after the head injury and she thought it was the devil.  Smith went on to say that she had tried to get Marvin to seek help for his drug addiction and mental problems but that he had refused to do so.

The preliminary report from the police states that Officer Deen had pulled over the vehicle that Marvin was in for speeding and he then called for back-up.  Officer Tate arrived on the scene and the shooting then occurred.  They have not released any details as to what they think happened before both officers were found shot and lying in the street.  They did add that Marvin had stolen one of the police cruisers and managed to drive it only a few blocks before he abandoned it.

Smith complained that the police make it a habit of pulling young black men over, sometimes just to ask where they are going.  She felt that something would happen eventually but she did not think that it would have involved either of her sons.  The four that had been arrested all appeared in court today and the charges of capital murder against Calloway were reduced to accessory after the fact while the rest of the charges against the three have stayed the same.

In a related story, Sierra "C-Babi" McCurdy of Laurel MS was fired from her job at Subway after she posted comments praising the deaths of Officers Deen and Tate on her Facebook account.  Twitter users not only reported the comments but stated that they were outraged by her comments in favor of the deaths.  I applaud Subway for firing her because of the image it presents to consumers worldwide.  A Facebook account is someone's place to state whatever they feel they want to say but if you think that you will not suffer the consequences for your actions there, you are very wrong.

What is outrageous is that Officer Tate is a young black man who graduated from South Pike High School, attended Southwest Community College, worked, applied to and graduated from the police academy all during a time when protests are demanding more "help" for black young men.  There are numerous debates about how much the deck is stacked against those young men growing up and yet, Officer Tate beat those odds.

Officer Tate proved that you don't need to be given a dozen handouts and coddling to become a young man to be proud of.  To read that a young black woman was praising his death at the hands of another black man is more than sickening....... it shows the depth of the real problem involving racism in the protests.  It seems to begin with a very real dislike of anyone in authority.





http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/05/09/two-hattiesburg-police-officers-killed/27072893/

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mississippi-man-accused-in-officer-killings-was-drug-addict-his-mother-says/

http://nypost.com/2015/05/10/subway-faces-backlash-after-worker-cheers-deaths-of-2-cops/

Living in fear......

"I think there is more trouble to come," stated Teresa Rivera-Avelar.








Jesus Ismenia Marinero, 45, had been living in constant fear for the past few months and now, her fears have been realized.  Her troubles had begun as far back as January of this year when she reported that she had her home burglarized at least five times.  She added that at least one time, the person who had broken in had spray painted on the walls of the home.

After that, she had seen men following her in various trucks as she traveled through town.  They followed her every time she made a turn and where ever she went.  On April 22, her home on 1932 South 18th St in Omaha Nebraska caught fire and burned the basement and first floor.  The fire which did $45,000 worth of damage is being investigated as arson but there have been no suspects named yet.  Jesus and her family then moved in with her sister and were living near 48th Ave and O St.

The break ins continued even after she moved in with her sister and a next door neighbor confirmed that report.  He stated that the sister's home had been broken into several times and they had recently installed a new security system to try and prevent more break ins.

On May 5 2015, Jesus was out driving with her two children and was supposed to meet with Jose Ramirez, her partner for the past five years, at her sister's home that evening.  Ramirez states that he kept calling her cellphone all evening but her phone was turned off.  He added that he did receive a text at around 11 pm from her phone that stated that she had been at the hospital and was now heading home.  Ramirez then stated that he got no further responses to his texts or phone calls after that.  He looked for her all of that evening and by the next morning, he called the police to report her missing.

Ramirez went to Jesus's sister's home in the morning as well, looking for Jesus and his two children but she was not there and they reported that she had never come home.  It was late in the afternoon when a man noticed what he thought were noises from an animal coming from a nearby dumpster in La Vista.  When he went over to investigate he found that it was not an animal, it was one of the missing boys.  Eleven month old Angel was found sitting in the dumpster, bruised and wearing only a diaper and he was taken to a local hospital.

Jesus's sister recognized Angel's picture went it was posted on social media and notified Ramirez immediately.  Angel had been found at 5:44 pm and was identified by family by 8:41 pm but there had been no reports of the location of Jesus and five year old Josue, Ramirez's other son.  At 7:54 pm, Omaha police were called out to Fourth and Cedar Streets for a person down call.  They found a deceased woman and began investigating it as a murder.

They had not connected the dead woman yet to the missing Jesus.  At 6:51 am on May 7 2015, the police ask for the public's help in finding the missing Jesus and Josue as well as her 2000 Jeep Cherokee Larado which she had been seen driving before she went missing.  The police issued an Amber Alert for Josue, officially identify the boy in the dumpster as Angel and report that they believe that there is a connection between the woman's body found by a couple walking near a ditch near Lauritzen Gardens the previous evening and the missing Jesus.

By 4 pm that afternoon, the police had cancelled the Amber Alert for the missing Jeep but state that Josue is still missing.  They also report that the woman who had been found dead has been identified as Jesus.  The Jeep had been found near 21st and Arbor Streets and they had to cancel the alert because it could no longer be tied to a missing vehicle.  The police had been questioning Ramirez and other family members in an attempt to discover what had happened to Jesus and her sons.  Ramirez was held briefly for questioning and on immigration issues but he was released that evening after Jesus's older son, Roberto C Martinez-Marinero, 25, walked into the Douglas County Corrections office.

Roberto told staff there that he was involved in the death of his mother on May 5th and was turning himself in.  He told the police that he had been arguing with his mother about money before he stabbed her to death and dumped her body.  He stated that he had thrown his five year old brother Josue into the Elkhorn River after his mother had been killed.

The police began their search for Josue at 8 am with numerous teams working in the Elkhorn River.  Roberto was booked into the jail and charged with suspicion of first degree murder and use of a weapon to commit a felony.  The charges are only related to the death of his mother Jesus and they did not state that they were looking to arrest any other suspects.  Angel was returned to the custody of his father that evening after being in the custody of child services for two days.

Josue was not found on Friday and the police continued their search of the river on early May 9th with as many as seven boats and dive teams searching both the water and the banks of the river.  The police did announce though at about 9 am that they had made a second arrest in the developing case.  They had arrested Roberto's girlfriend, Gabriela Guevara, 24, and charged her with suspicion of being an accessory in the murder of Jesus.  A relative of Jesus's stated that Guevara had never liked jesus but they did not know why she felt that way.

The police had also searched and removed items from the rental home of Roberto's near 20th St and Poppleton Ave where he had been living with his girlfriend and two small children.  Neighbors had reported that they had often seen Roberto out in the fenced yard playing with his children in the past.  The police have stated that they are still not looking for additional suspects in the case but family members of Jesus have stated that they would not be surprised if there are others involved.

As much as it is hoped that Josue is found alive, the longer the search continues, the smaller those chances become.

http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/slain-woman-s-son-booked-in-connection-with-her-death/article_08b60708-f452-11e4-9b39-fb9e54cb87a5.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3074078/Adult-son-walks-police-station-confesses-killing-mom-dumping-baby-brother-dumpster-throwing-five-year-old-brother-river.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/neb-man-murdered-mom-missing-brother-river-cops-article-1.2215547

http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/son-arrested-in-mom-s-slaying-reportedly-said-they-argued/article_bdb8bc2a-77b1-5d93-96dc-a0dafb75adcb.html

http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/BREAKING-New-Possible-Lead-In-Ongoing-Murder-Missing-Boy-Investigation-303166321.html

http://www.ketv.com/news/timeline-in-missing-boy-case-homicide-investigation/32896950

http://www.ketv.com/news/amber-alert-issued-for-sibling-of-toddler-found-in-metro-dumpster/32852350


Update May 12 2015:

The body of 5 year old Josue was found on May 11th along the riverbank about a mile south of the West center Rd bridge.  The police report that he and his younger brother probably witnessed the murder of their mother and were kidnapped by their half brother after her death.  Angel was dropped off in the dumpster and Josue was thrown from the bridge while he was alive.

The police state that Jesus and her son had been arguing about money for the past few weeks leading up to the murder.  She was over at her son's home that evening and he stated that she slapped or swatted at him sometime during their argument and he claims that he lost it then.  He beat her in the face and head with a baseball bat and then stabbed her multiple times.  His girlfriend Guevara was in the home when this happened and went with him to help dump her body.  She was also with him when he dumped both of the children but there is no report as to where their two children were at that time.

Guevara is facing up to 55 years for the five accessory charges she faces now and prosecutors have stated that they will seek the death penalty for Roberto.  He is being held without bond and Guevara has received a $1 million dollar bond.




http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/searchers-find-body-of--year-old-josue-ramirez-marinero/article_f5066f40-f7f3-11e4-812b-63c0f3453bb9.html

http://www.kcci.com/news/suspects-in-marinero-killings-due-in-court-tuesday/32959680

Anything to get a buck.........

The public nationwide got to meet Dorian Johnson, 23, on August 9 2014 when he became the outspoken witness to his friend Michael Brown's shooting death.  Johnson seemed to enjoy his more that 15 minutes of fame before any member of the media who was interested in hearing his eye witness account of that day.  What Johnson "forgot" to mention in those early news stories was the part he played in a store robbery only minutes before Michael Brown lost his life and what he did while Brown was being gunned down.

It was later discovered that Johnson had a problem with telling the truth and he vanished from the public eye for a time.  The public had been led to believe that he was the "smoking gun" of witness's and he would blow the case of Brown's death wide open.  Instead, Johnson was not even a very credible witness for the grand jury even after he had been cleaned up and taught how to enunciate his big words.  He never did state in public what he had done during the last few minutes that Brown was alive........ did he run for cover or did he try to save Brown or was he even standing there with his hands up as he claimed Brown had been doing.

Johnson is back in the news though, first for the lawsuit he has recently filed and secondly for another arrest to add to his record.  His lawsuit has been filed against the former police chief Thomas Jackson and former officer Darren Wilson.  He is alleging that he has suffered emotional distress and psychological damage from the arrest and death of his friend Brown and he is seeking $25,000 in damages. He claims that Wilson targeted him without probable cause, assaulted him and violated his constitutional rights.  His lawsuit is also asking for an injunction to prevent the city of Ferguson and it's police from engaging in unlawful arrests, engaging in assault and using excessive force.

On May 6 2015, police were called to the 5700 block of Acme Ave in St Louis MO at 3:21 pm to investigate a call about a large group of subjects who were possibly armed with firearms.  The officers that had arrived tried to disperse the men there and that was when trouble began.  The police noticed one of the men had what appeared to be bulge in his clothes and tried to detain and pat him down.  While they were trying to do that, Demonte Johnson, 21, grabbed the arm of the officer and tried to prevent him from patting down the other man.

At this point, Dorian Johnson approached the officers who were trying to now detain Demonte for interfering and resisting them.  He stood very close to the officer and was yelling at him to try and prevent his brother Demonte from being arrested.  He was also observed tossing what was later described as cold medication mixed with an illegal narcotic on the ground.  All three men were arrested and it was reported that they are all brothers.  One of them was also found to have a warrant for armed robbery and armed criminal action in Bridgeton but they did not name which brother that was.

M Brown

Demonte was charged with resisting or interfering with an arrest and third degree assault on an officer and Dorian was charged with resisting or interfering with an arrest.  I am sure that his lawyer can try and spin this into an additional trauma for Johnson but it certainly sounds as though Dorian just has not learned yet how to straighten up and fly right.  Most people try to better themselves after a brush with the law........... evidently johnson has a different view on what better means.






http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/crime/2015/05/06/dorian-johnson-arrested-by-st-louis-police/70926684/

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/witness-michael-brown-death-arrested-drug-charges-article-1.2213316

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/dorian-johnson-figure-in-michael-brown-case-arrested-in-st/article_578b535b-bfb3-5216-8fa7-ee7e53f0a3f9.html

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/06/us/dorian-johnson-arrested/

To what end...?

"It's really unfortunate that it happened," stated John Wilson.







The police were called to the Moore Funeral Home Eastland Chapel on April 30 2015 at about 5 pm to handle a disturbance.  They arrived at the funeral home on the 1900 block of South Memorial Dr in Tulsa OK to find that the body of a woman that was waiting to be interred had been vandalized.  They reported that they found what looked like her hair on the floor and her makeup had been smeared.

On a closer examination, a vertical cut was found that ran from the woman's hairline to the tip of her nose.  Family members stated that they had caught Shaynna Lauren Sims, aka Shaynna Smith in the dead woman's apartment and they believed that she was the one who had slashed the dead woman.  Sims had told the relatives that she was there picking up jewelry to wear to the funeral but they had not given her permission to be there.

The police found Sims in possession of scissors, a box cutter, various makeup items and a folding knife with the deceased's hair still on it.  Family members stated that they had observed Sims near the casket with her hands inside of it before she left and the damage was found shortly afterwards.  Sims was arrested and is being held on a charge of illegal dissection as well as a previous charge of assault and battery, each of which has a $10,000 bond.

She could also face a more serious charge of desecration of a corpse.  Court records show that she had pleaded guilty on April 15th to an amended charge of assault and battery after being charged in February 2015 of child neglect.  She had received an 18 month deferred sentence for that plea.  Sims has not stated what motivated her to slash the dead woman but it has been reported that she was possibly dating the dead woman's ex boyfriend.

The funeral director, John Wilson stated that he has never seen anything like this in the past thirty years.  It certainly is taking things to an extreme and if she had some kind of difficulty with the deceased, it should have been put to rest with the woman's death.  Slashing her body in a casket would make no difference now and only hurt the living.



http://www.newson6.com/story/28970732/woman-arrested-for-dissecting-corpse-at-tulsa-funeral-home

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/crimewatch/tulsa-woman-jailed-on-report-of-vandalizing-corpse/article_8470c61f-8ed4-5c4c-85b2-7ee20d5a2bce.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/okla-woman-slashed-face-boyfriend-dead-cops-article-1.2210681

There was no need.......

The Morrow's of kings Mountain NC had rescued Libby six years ago and tragically lost her on April 30 2015.  The blind beagle had gone outside where they reported she liked to just lay around but they became concerned when she hadn't come back in by the early evening.

The police were called to the Morrow home on the 100 block of South Gaston St at about 7:47 pm that evening.  A family friend had gone into the backyard to look for Libby and found what was left of her between the two trees that she had loved to sleep under.  Someone had jumped the back fence and broken into their shed.  They had stolen an axe, a sledgehammer, a shovel and a propane tank.

The thief had also killed Libby and decapitated her, which left a scene so gruesome that the Morrow's had to leave many details out when they told their children that she was dead.  The police were back out to the house during the daylight the next day to continue their investigation and search because Libby's head was missing.  The police did manage to find her collar but so far they have few clues to go on.

Dennis Morrow stated that they keeping a close eye on their remaining two dogs and feel especially sorry that Libby was killed in the manner she was.  He stated that she was so friendly that if someone were to touch her head, she would probably lie down and let whoever was there pet her.  He added that being blind would have meant that she would have had no idea what was going to happen to her.

The Kings Mountain police are asking for anyone who has information about the crime to contact them and an animal shelter has offered a $5,000 reward to the conviction of the criminal involved.

It seems obvious that Libby did not bark and give them away when they broke in so there is no real reason for killing a defenseless, handicapped dog and then taking her head.






http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/community/news-alliance/wbtv-news/article20071194.html

http://www.wistv.com/story/28955787/police-dog-decapitated-during-home-break-in

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/burglar-decapitates-blind-deaf-dog-in-backyard-of-north-carolina-home/

Do the right thing?

"As parents we wanted Allen to do the right thing," stated Bobbi Smallwood.





A nation watched on April 27 2015 as what had begun as another day of peaceful demonstrations grew into a violent night of wild destruction.  There have been various theories as to why the day progressed the way it did and they may well figure that question out in the not too distant future.  What is known is that by the next day, Allen Bullock's picture was known world wide as a symbol of what happened that day.

The riots had turned ugly on April 25th when a group that had been protesting the death of Freddie Gray turned violent outside the Baltimore Orioles game at Camden Yards that evening.  People who were inside watching the game were delayed in leaving because of the rioting.  Bullock was photographed there smashing a police cruiser with a traffic cone and his picture ended up on the front page of the Baltimore Sun the next day.

His mother Bobbi and stepfather Maurice Hawkins, 44, had told Allen that the police would find him, knock down the door and beat him if he did not do the right thing and turn himself in.  They felt that he was dead wrong in what he did and needed to be punished but not as severely as the charges will face in court.   Allen did turn himself into the police and now his parents are very upset and publicly stating that they wish they had not.

Allen is facing eight charges which include rioting and malicious destruction of property as well as a bond of $500,000 which is why his parents have changed their minds.  They feel that he has been singled out and made an example of with a bail that high.  I would almost jump on that boat as well since about half of those arrested between Saturday and Monday have been released on their own recognizance and most of the remaining are facing bail of about $10,000.  I can not back the pleas for softer treatment of Bullock though after reading more of the evidence.

It has been stated on the site begging for donations to raise Bullock's bail money that he was so angry about the lack of information that had been released about the death of Freddie Gray that he broke the windows on the police car.  He was caught on film as well as in stills smashing away at the car with a friend who his parents now refuse to name since he has not been charged yet.  The most serious charge bullock faces is the inciting a riot charge which his parents and supporters claim is false.  What you can readily see though is that the pair is surrounded by onlookers who did not join in on the destruction.

Bullock may have been angry but he had no reason to lead the charge in destroying the police car.  In fact, he had no business getting in any legal trouble at that time.  Bullock was already on probation at the for juvenile convictions that included fighting and theft, so he was breaking his probation conditions just by breaking the law.  I do understand where they could find a charge of inciting a riot because he is the primary person to smash the car and by doing so, he was either showing off to the surrounding crowd or trying to get some of them to join in.  I would be much more sympathetic if he had been grabbed by the police out of a crowd of hundreds and arrested for just being there.

Other sites tell the tale of how both of his parents have had their own arrests, his mother on prostitution charges in 2003 and the lack of jobs available to blacks in Baltimore.  Bullock isn't one of those poor downtrodden,never going to have a chance young men though.  He was on probation for juvenile arrests but he had caught some pretty significant breaks as well.

 He was living with a cousin in East Baltimore and was earning $15,600 a year working in sanitation for the city in a program for juveniles on probation.  He had graduated middle school in 2012 and had attended night school once in an attempt to get his GED but left that after he failed to graduate.  His parents also stated that he was running his own successful car detailing business and was making anywhere from $900 to $3,000 a month depending on business.

If that figure is just roughly rounded off, he could have been making an additional $10,000 a year which also could have been tax free if he had not been claiming on his tax form.  That means that the he could have been bringing in roughly $25,600 a year which many adults would state is a fair wage for a years work.  The estimated poverty level wages for a single adult is $11, 670 in the US so without counting his side business pay, Bullock was already above that bare minimum.  He is making with just the one job, what anyone else working a minimum wage job, full time for a year would make.

Then take into account the additional pictures and postings that Allen had made.  Bullock posted a picture of him smashing the police car on his own Facebook page as well as pictures circulating of him wearing a police officers hat.  He does not make any attempt to link the pictures and comments to the death of Freddie Gray or the unfair treatment alleged of the police in general.

His parents are concerned that he may not receive the medications he needs to treat his ADHD while he is in jail as well as the possibility that he will lose his job.  Bullock has gotten breaks from the legal system and was set up in a job opportunity that could have left him with a fairly decent paying career job.  He chose to not only be down there for the protests but also to jump on a police car and start bashing it.  He can not claim that he was swept up in the crowd choices because he was performing for the crowd.

Unfortunately, now he faces eight charges in adult court, one of which could have him facing life but will most likely end up with 4 to 8 years in jail.  He is being made an example of but then, there are many more that joined into the destruction of their own neighborhoods, businesses and property over those few days.  Bullock's friend will be arrested as well as the police in Ferguson MO have shown.  They will take their time and round up more of the vandals who acted like thugs and they will be charged.  Allen did do the right thing in the end but the right thing should have been to not destroy a police cruiser in the first place.

Welcome to the world of adults Allen Bullock......... there are all kinds of choices and there are also consequences for those choices, good or bad.  May this be a lesson that many can learn from.  You have free speech but you do not have the right to destroy.



Related stories on this blog:

http://wreckvhavoc.blogspot.com/2015/04/just-destruction.html

http://wreckvhavoc.blogspot.com/search?q=fake+gun

http://wreckvhavoc.blogspot.com/2014/08/where-is-outrage.html

http://wreckvhavoc.blogspot.com/2014/11/its-fair-burn-it.html

http://wreckvhavoc.blogspot.com/2014/10/it-is-their-job.html

http://wreckvhavoc.blogspot.com/2014/08/justified.html







http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/30/baltimore-rioters-parents-500000-bail-allen-bullock

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3062532/Mother-Baltimore-rioter-REGRETS-telling-18-year-old-son-turn-smashing-cars-police-cone-bail-set-500-000.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/baltimore-mom-regrets-making-rioting-son-surrender-police-article-1.2205190

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaJYvwOX_Us

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-the-family-of-allen-bullock-post-bail

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/05/02/3654160/teen-turned-riots-faces-bail-higher-cops-charged-freddie-gray-death/


Update May 12 2015:

Allen Bullock has been released on the $500,000 bond that he had been held with after he turned himself in.  His mother stated that they had raised the funds for his bail through friends as well as over $8,000 that had been raised on a fundraising site.  She added that they are still trying to get his bail lowered and complained that he was being held on a higher bail than any of the police officers that have been charged with Gray's death.  None of those officers though have a previous criminal history and they had not broken parole as Bullock had done.

While they do state that he broke the law and he needs to be punished for it, they continue to state that he has been unfairly targeted with the high bond.  He did do the right thing in turning himself in but it can be easily seen that he had no mob helping him destroy the police cars.  The pictures from the scene show hundreds standing around and watching him flail away with a traffic cone.  The excuse that he was acting out on his emotions doesn't float well.  He is 18 with a record and had been given a huge chance already by his placement in the job he had.  Maybe with the high bond he has, he will learn to control those emotions a lot better now.




http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bal-teen-charged-with-rioting-released-on-500000-bail-20150508-story.html

Speed kills.......

"We don't have anyone who can confirm that they were racing," stated police LT Rich Lawhead.






The police do know that around 10 pm on April 29 2015, two cars were traveling at a high rate of speed eastbound and switching lanes near Highland Ave and Macy St in San Bernardino CA when a crash occurred.  The 1992 Mitsubishi 3000 that Mark A Jimenez, 19, was driving slid into the path of a 2011 Toyota Corolla that was traveling west on Highland Ave. and hit it head on.

Jimenez was killed in the crash and the three people riding in the Toyota were taken to area hospitals  with injuries.  The driver of the car, a 23 year old is in critical condition and the other two were rushed into surgery for internal injuries.  All three that were in the Toyota are expected to survive their injuries and police stated that Jimenez died instantly in the crash.  His brother was driving a black Chevy Impala alongside Mark and he declined to make a statement to police.  At this time, he has not been charged with anything.

The police have stated that there have been several accidents on that stretch of road in the past but they have not had a problem with street racing there before.  It is described as a very flat, straight stretch of road and it would be very well suited for racing though.

Jimenez was very popular and well liked at his alma mater Arroyo Valley High School and the students there are very upset by the news of his death.  He was described as having a great smile and while there may have been doubt of his graduating during his junior year, he managed to buckle down and graduate the following year.  He is remembered for the times he would arrive at school in his cowboy style clothing, sometimes adding a hat as well.

The police are still investigating the crash so it is still unknown if the brothers were just fooling around or actually racing.  Either way, it looks as though a poor choice has led to another young life gone far too soon.






http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-kills-injures-3-drag-race-brother-article-1.2207627

http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20150430/san-bernardino-man-killed-in-possible-street-racing-crash-identified-3-others-hurt

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Teen-Killed-Deadly-Street-Race-San-Bernardino-301808111.html

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-brother-killed-sibling-street-race-20150430-story.html