Milwaukee cops beating trial gone to jury....all white jury

[LeftHander]

Off duty police officers severly beat Frank Jude Jr. for allegedly stealing a badge during a party that numerous off-duty police were in attendance. Jude's pictures were front page news over a year ago when his battered face appeared in Television and newspapers.



the jury is now in it's third day of deliberations.

The NAACP is calling for calm in the black communities.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=305614

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=415403

This could be the spark that ignites race riots in Milwaukee. Notice the timing of the trial with easter no doubt done so to minimize any potetial violence if the cops are found not guilty

Snip:

"The state's main witnesses said Jude was surrounded by up to 15 people, many of them off-duty officers who were at a party at defendant Andrew Spengler's Bay View home. Spengler suspected Jude of taking his badge. The witnesses said Jude was punched and kicked repeatedly in the head, face, body and groin and had a knife put to his throat. Jude said he was the subject of racial slurs, had his fingers yanked back and had something jammed into both ears.

McCann said it was telling that all the civilian witnesses and the first on-duty officers saw the beating, but none of the 10 off-duty officers there did."

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1. Racism is alive and well in America.

Expensive attorney's play the system like a violin.

An all white jury? Ya just gotta know that this man is not being represented by a veteran lawyer.

[LeftHander]

3. Jude not on trial...the cops are....they have big time lawyer.

Three cops are on trial.

[0007]

5. Sorry, I lost my head!

I should have said, "Ya just gotta know that the cops aren't be represented by an ignorant attorney."

[Solo_in_MD]

6. Prosecution may not have had a choice

Also bear in mind that using race as a criteria for jury selection is not allowed, by either side.

The OP comments about planning the verdict for Easter weekend clearly requires tinfoil. Anyone who knows how court scheduling works would know better.

[HereSince1628]

2. 'We don't want our cops kicking the shit out of citizens!"

I believe that or something close to it was a comment of the prosecutor during the closing.

[TahitiNut]

4. He obviously fell down. They were merely helping him up.

Milwaukee is highly red-lined and segregated. Abuse of authority on the part of police is a plague - and the Stanford Jail Experiment shows it comes "naturally." Without very extensive civilian/community oversight, police corruption can run unchecked.