MD COPS KILL TEEN COP KILLER
WOW!!!!!! In no way do I support cop killers but this is absolutely sick and sad for so many reasons. Police brutality is an increasingly disgusting problem that we face here in America. How can we feel safe when the very people who are to protect us are killing us.
In this American Court system, a person is innocent until proven guilty. While it is very possible that this man did in fact kill this police officer nowhere in the letter of the law does it make it lawful for the police to kill this man in retaliation to their team members death.
Are the police a gang? Will this type of behavior be tolerated in these United States of America. This is a terrorist act in my opinion. Soon, because I hope the main stream media like CNN and others will break this story, I PRAY THAT SOON THE UPROAR FROM COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE NATION WILL RING OUT. How can we respect a system that does not respect itself. How can there be peace in this country when people are being killed by those who are to serve and protect them.
update:
Death of Pr. George’s Suspect Is Ruled a Homicide
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, June 30, 2008; 6:01 PM
The death of a 19-year-old man who was found unresponsive yesterday in a jail cell less than 36 hours after he was charged with killing a Prince George’s County police officer has been ruled a homicide, sources familiar with the investigation said today.
Original story:
A 19-year-old man who was recently released from jail was charged with first-degree murder yesterday in the slaying of a Prince George’s County police officer.
The state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has determined that Ronnie L. White had two broken bones in his neck and that he died from asphyxiation, according to a law enforcement official who was briefed in a telephone conference by the medical examiner’s office.
Jail officials have said White was in solitary confinement and was last checked by a guard 15 minutes before he was found on the floor of his cell, not breathing and with no pulse.
The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into White’s death, said FBI spokesman Richard J. Wolf.
County Executive Jack Johnson has scheduled a 9 p.m. news conference to discuss the investigation into White’s death. Law enforcement sources said Johnson is expected to announce that the county police will turn over the investigation to the Maryland State Police.
White, a resident of the Laurel area in Howard County, was jailed at the Prince George’s County Correctional Center after he was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Cpl. Richard S. Findley, 39. According to police charging documents, on Friday morning in Laurel, White “intentionally accelerated” a large pickup he was driving toward the officer, striking and dragging him in a parking lot.
Jail officials said yesterday that White’s body had no visible signs of trauma and they could not rule out the possibility that he had committed suicide. Several high-ranking police officials also had said they were initially told White had committed suicide.
White’s family was immediately suspicious of such explanations. Before the results of the autopsy were known, Dorothy White, Ronnie White’s aunt, said the family was convinced of foul play. “They either injected his food or his — I don’t know what,” she said
White was apprehended at about noon on Friday and booked into the county jail about 12 hours later. He was found unresponsive yesterday about 10:30 a.m. White was taken to Prince George’s Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later.
“The citizens ought to be outraged, both about what happened to the police officer and about what happened to the alleged perpetrator,” said Zalee Harris, an activist working to form a new county branch of the NAACP.
“This is a potentially catastrophic event between the citizens and the police and the government,” she said. “There needs to be some damage control. There needs to be a whole lot of sensitivity to both sides.”
According to the charging documents, filed by Detective Thomas K. Lancaster, a passenger in the truck White was driving identified him as the driver. The passenger, identified as Gerald Wright, suffered a gunshot wound during the incident, according to the charging documents.