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Retired Baltimore Officer Reveals Shocking Details of Police Failures
2015-05-15 16:19 | by John Karpf
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13th, in a startlingly candid 3-hour radio interview on Dogma Debate with David Smalley, Retired Baltimore Police Sergeant Michael A. Wood Jr exposed the Baltimore Police Department. He cited on-going mismanagement, in which police officers were ordered by superiors to break policy, and additionally noted that some officers risked their jobs by standing up to senior management in refusal.
“BPD started the Baltimore riots.”
Sgt. Wood detailed examples of intentional police brutality, .... He blamed the city itself for starting the riots. He said they shut down the bus system, didn’t let high school kids go home after school, and then surrounded them with police in riot gear.
Wood continued to say that the headlines we have seen recently in Baltimore; unarmed black teenagers shot in the back and killed, people dying in police custody, and suspects brutally assaulted, shows how police officers are callously disregarding the lives and safety of ordinary citizens. Not only are these recent problems, they have been going on for decades and decades.
Wood’s criticism of the BPD, along with his thoughts about institutionalized racism and corruption of American policing can be heard in the full radio interview here: http://www.spreaker.com/user/smalley...police-officer.
“Justice is the best riot control.”
According to Wood, a staggering number of BPD officers have been arrested in the last ten years, and delineated a litany of events: how BPD started the Baltimore riots, how nothing about the Freddie Gray incident was a legal arrest, how the last person to die in police custody (in the back of a wagon) was awarded $7.4M, but Baltimore only had to pay $219,000 due to a lawsuit cap.
Wood further revealed that many current and former police officers have attempted to break ranks and expose what goes on behind the blue wall of silence. He decided to make that finally happen on this radio show, and that’s why he decided to join David Smalley and Alix Jules for an open and honest discussion in which he delves into the very fabric of police culture and systemic problems.
The Freddie Gray incident brought to the national spotlight the institutionalized racism, policy breaking, undertraining, no-snitching mentality, lack of professionalism, and ‘us’ versus ‘them’ worldview that the sergeant had been trying to fight for years from within the Baltimore PD. Wood told SNN, “maybe justice is the best riot control.”
Starts at 103 minute-mark: interview
Retired Baltimore Officer Reveals Shocking Details of Police Failures
2015-05-15 16:19 | by John Karpf
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13th, in a startlingly candid 3-hour radio interview on Dogma Debate with David Smalley, Retired Baltimore Police Sergeant Michael A. Wood Jr exposed the Baltimore Police Department. He cited on-going mismanagement, in which police officers were ordered by superiors to break policy, and additionally noted that some officers risked their jobs by standing up to senior management in refusal.
“BPD started the Baltimore riots.”
Sgt. Wood detailed examples of intentional police brutality, .... He blamed the city itself for starting the riots. He said they shut down the bus system, didn’t let high school kids go home after school, and then surrounded them with police in riot gear.
Wood continued to say that the headlines we have seen recently in Baltimore; unarmed black teenagers shot in the back and killed, people dying in police custody, and suspects brutally assaulted, shows how police officers are callously disregarding the lives and safety of ordinary citizens. Not only are these recent problems, they have been going on for decades and decades.
Wood’s criticism of the BPD, along with his thoughts about institutionalized racism and corruption of American policing can be heard in the full radio interview here: http://www.spreaker.com/user/smalley...police-officer.
“Justice is the best riot control.”
According to Wood, a staggering number of BPD officers have been arrested in the last ten years, and delineated a litany of events: how BPD started the Baltimore riots, how nothing about the Freddie Gray incident was a legal arrest, how the last person to die in police custody (in the back of a wagon) was awarded $7.4M, but Baltimore only had to pay $219,000 due to a lawsuit cap.
Wood further revealed that many current and former police officers have attempted to break ranks and expose what goes on behind the blue wall of silence. He decided to make that finally happen on this radio show, and that’s why he decided to join David Smalley and Alix Jules for an open and honest discussion in which he delves into the very fabric of police culture and systemic problems.
The Freddie Gray incident brought to the national spotlight the institutionalized racism, policy breaking, undertraining, no-snitching mentality, lack of professionalism, and ‘us’ versus ‘them’ worldview that the sergeant had been trying to fight for years from within the Baltimore PD. Wood told SNN, “maybe justice is the best riot control.”