Baltimore rioter turned himself in – but family can't afford $500,000 bail

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Baltimore rioter turned himself in – but family can't afford $500,000 bail

Allen Bullock’s 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 Baltimore’s juvenile justice centre with his stepfather, Maurice Hawkins, who said he saw television footage of Bullock’s 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

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

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]

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]

3. certainly seems excessive.

I think 90 days plus paying for the damage would be appropriate after the trial.

[strategery blunder]

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]

5. Stepfather is an idiot for advising his son to turn himself in.

Deal with it privately as a family. Sheesh.

[Travis_0004]

6. He was on the national news

Im sure the police would have identified him.