{"id":955,"date":"2009-06-03T14:16:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T19:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=955"},"modified":"2009-06-03T15:11:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T20:11:53","slug":"governments-right-to-murder-now-official-in-prince-georges-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/governments-right-to-murder-now-official-in-prince-georges-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Government’s Right to Murder – Now Official in Prince George’s County, Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been ragging on<\/strong><\/a> Prince George’s County, Maryland (adjacent to DC) for most of this decade.<\/p>\n

Good Ol’ PG just outdid itself.<\/p>\n

The county prosecutor has signaled <\/a>that there will be no charges in the case of an inmate murdered by prison guards.<\/p>\n

Whoops – that’s not quite what PG officials said.<\/p>\n

Instead, there will be no charges in the case of the mysterious death of an inmate whom prison guards claim might have committed suicide. Except that there was no evidence of suicide, and the evidence that did exist vanished or was otherwise mangled. <\/p>\n

The county medical examiner concluded prisoner Ronnie White was murdered by strangulation. (White allegedly ran over and killed a police officer before being jailed). <\/p>\n

But – oh bother – county officials are shrugging their shoulders and moseying along. They appeared to have made little or no effort to gather evidence – or to threaten guards with obstruction of justice or perjury charges. Instead, county officials have kowtowed to a Blue Wall of Silence and the prison guards’ union. <\/p>\n

Don’t worry, though. You don’t need to fear being murdered by government officials in P.G. County unless some cop or prison guard thinks you are a bad person. <\/p>\n

And luckily, cops and prison guards are omniscient. Or at least that is how they are treated in P.G. County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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