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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBaltimore rioter turned himself in – but family can't afford $500,000 bail
Source: The Guardian
Baltimore rioter turned himself in but family can't afford $500,000 bail
Allen Bullocks mother and stepfather told him to surrender for smashing a police
car, but they say authorities are making an example of him and it is not right
Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland, Paul Lewis and Mae Ryan in Baltimore
Thursday 30 April 2015 15.25 BST
The 18-year-old pictured smashing a police car with a traffic cone, in one of the defining images of the Baltimore riots, is being held on half a million dollars bail and may face years in jail after his stepfather persuaded him to turn himself in to authorities.
Allen Bullock was charged with eight criminal counts, including rioting and malicious destruction of property, after arriving at Baltimores juvenile justice centre with his stepfather, Maurice Hawkins, who said he saw television footage of Bullocks actions on Saturday.
Hawkins, 44, said Bullock had agreed to surrender to the police after being told by his stepfather the police would find him, knock down our door and beat him if he did not.
By turning himself in he also let me know he was growing as a man and he recognised what he did was wrong, Hawkins said on Wednesday at his home in a low-income block in south Baltimore. But they are making an example of him and it is not right.
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Allen Bullocks mother and stepfather told him to surrender for smashing a police
car, but they say authorities are making an example of him and it is not right
Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland, Paul Lewis and Mae Ryan in Baltimore
Thursday 30 April 2015 15.25 BST
The 18-year-old pictured smashing a police car with a traffic cone, in one of the defining images of the Baltimore riots, is being held on half a million dollars bail and may face years in jail after his stepfather persuaded him to turn himself in to authorities.
Allen Bullock was charged with eight criminal counts, including rioting and malicious destruction of property, after arriving at Baltimores juvenile justice centre with his stepfather, Maurice Hawkins, who said he saw television footage of Bullocks actions on Saturday.
Hawkins, 44, said Bullock had agreed to surrender to the police after being told by his stepfather the police would find him, knock down our door and beat him if he did not.
By turning himself in he also let me know he was growing as a man and he recognised what he did was wrong, Hawkins said on Wednesday at his home in a low-income block in south Baltimore. But they are making an example of him and it is not right.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/30/baltimore-rioters-parents-500000-bail-allen-bullock
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Baltimore rioter turned himself in – but family can't afford $500,000 bail (Original Post)
Eugene
Apr 2015
OP
Nees to go to prison for life and George W Bush and Dick Cheney need more private islands
NoJusticeNoPeace
Apr 2015
#1
Yeah, let's make an example of him so no one else ever turns themselves in again!
strategery blunder
Apr 2015
#4
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)1. Nees to go to prison for life and George W Bush and Dick Cheney need more private islands
to go spend vacation time on
then we can have the revolution that is needed
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)2. Smash a car with a traffic cone, face a lengthy jail sentence
Start a war based on lies which costs trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives?
Retire to your ranch in Texas.
This is the system.
Is it any wonder why people who have been fucked over by the system are lashing out?
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)3. certainly seems excessive.
I think 90 days plus paying for the damage would be appropriate after the trial.
strategery blunder
(4,225 posts)4. Yeah, let's make an example of him so no one else ever turns themselves in again!
Do I really need the sarcasm tag?
woolldog
(8,791 posts)5. Stepfather is an idiot for advising his son to turn himself in.
Deal with it privately as a family. Sheesh.
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)6. He was on the national news
Im sure the police would have identified him.