The Latest: Photographer says police beat him during protest

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

5 p.m.

A photo editor for a Baltimore newspaper said he was beaten by police at a protest of the death of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man who died a week ago after sustaining serious injuries while in police custody.

J.M. Giordano, who works at City Paper, says police "swarmed over" him and hit him repeatedly. A video of the beating posted to the newspaper's website Sunday shows at least two police officers in riot gear hitting and kicking Giordano as the person filming screams, "He's a photographer! He's press!"

Giordano, 41, said his head hit the ground during the beating, which he said only stopped when someone pulled him out of the fray.

FULL story at link.



Protestors gather outside the Baltimore Police Department\'s Western District police station before a match for Freddie Gray, Saturday, April 25, 2015, in Baltimore. Gray died from spinal injuries about a week after he was arrested and transported in a police van. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/3475af20f9574bbdbdbec4461029386f/latest-wake-held-man-who-died-after-arrest

[marym625]

1. It seems we have collectively lost our soul

[bravenak]

3. Maybe losing one's soul is just part of becoming police.

[marym625]

5. Most definitely

There's no about that in my mind. Not in today's environment.

[bravenak]

9. I just love that shrug thing.

[marym625]

10. Me too!

That's why this little dude was in my reply

this dude is cool too but seems rather pretentious

[bravenak]

11. Some of them are confusing tho.

Like what do you use this for?

[marym625]

12. I don't want to say here

I would be showing disrespect for this thread.

[Archae]

13. Someone like Bill O'Reilly, "pumping up" his ego.

[bravenak]

15. Boom!

[MrScorpio]

2. Proving once again that the police in this country are all out of control nt

[n2doc]

4. There is a cancer in this country

And it ain't the press. And it ain't the protestors either.

[immoderate]

6. Here's the video at City Paper...

http://www.citypaper.com/news/all-content/chi-freddie-gray-protest-beating-20150426,0,6997438.story

--imm

[Omaha Steve]

8. Thank you

I'd say that is proof positive.

[whereisjustice]

7. NSA spying, police shootings and beatings, drone attacks, torture, I'm told by both

political parties that it's just patriotic folks doing their jobs in earnest.

Remember when civil liberties were important principles for a free nation?

If the Democratic Party spent as much effort defending the disadvantaged as they do defending the rich and powerful, we'd be better off as a nation.

As it is, there's not enough competition. We have a virtual political monopoly looking after the best interests of the rich.

[tomsaiditagain]

14. Heads will roll

when the citizens of this great country rise up and take back the government. Sooner than later its goina happen.

[Kelvin Mace]

17. Never going to happen

The citizens of this country are armed to the teeth and this goes on every day.

[Kelvin Mace]

16. They don't care.

They will kill anyone who defy them. They murder because they are rarely, if ever, punished.

[Enthusiast]

18. More actions by the Brown Shirts.