The cops were not present, only the correction officers.

Cop vs. Correction Officer? Explain the difference because it appears to be a matter of semantics.

The cop works on the street, the correction officer works in the jail. That's the difference. It's not semantics. Cops didn't do this, guards did.

Well, I for one, don't think it is a racial issue. And, I take GREAT offense to your use of the term "Lynched" to refer to a scumbag who engaged in a life of criminal activity, including murder!! I am from Alabama, a place where my father, grandfather, brothers and cousins lived with the fear of being LYNCHED...simply for being a Black man. Mr. White was a victim of a very simple principle: you reap what you sow.

I am very sorry for his mother's loss; however, did she express outrage for his victims -- and there were many of them. Cpl Findley was the latest, but not by any means the last. In his 19 years on the earth, Mr. White had ammassed a criminal record dating back several years. He callously and deliberately took another life. Where is the sorrow for this policeman and his family?

I feel no sorrow for Mr. White. My sorrow is for his victims, including his mother who must now bury a son.

I posted almost the same thing yesterday only to see my comment removed this morning.
Good luck keeping your views on this site.

People are calling this a lynching.
But if it had happened anywhere else, they would celebrate it as vigilante justice.

And I agree, this is not a racial issue.
No one even knows the race of officer who killed Mr. White.
If anything, perhaps Mr. White is the racist one for killing Cpl. Findley.

I don't believe that Mr. White deliberately killed Findley. I bet Findley tried to pull him from the vehicle, or grab the wheel, etc. and got ran over/dragged. Furthermore, perhaps Findley reaped what he sowed. He very well may have been your typical pig cop

fuck cops and fuck "corrections officers".

Well stated! (not being sarcastic)

dat happen here in west australia too charlie daniels went over the wall fremantle jail shot in the back but guard with cross eyes all cover up the jails here the murders bashings tortures 200 years still going

My question is what is taking the FBI so long to identify the guilty parties involved. There are only so many guards on station duty, they have an attendtance roster. The longer they wait the uglier it's going to get!!!!

The PG County Police have a history of racism. But the Amerikan criminal justice system including the courts are dominated by right-wing extremists and fascists, so you can expect no repercussions. After all, it's "Just Us"!

"We'll send out all our boys in blue. They'll find a way to silence you!" ---- Steppenwolf

cops make more $ than correction officers

All the police forces (names don't matter) are the same shit, part of the criminal, terrorist, racist and fascist police state designed to control, repress and murder all those who represent a "threat" to the survival of the state and the "status quo." We, people of color, are considered the threat and that's why these fuckers primarily direct their campaign of murder and state terrorism against us! I'm fucking pissed off and tired of reading the news and watch the police murder Black and Latino young men while in custody or in the streets. This form of criminality and ethnic cleansing has to end! It's time for our communities to come together and form self-defense organizations and retaliate in kind against murderer cops everywhere!

“All the police forces (names don't matter) are the same shit, part of the criminal, terrorist, racist and fascist police state designed to control, repress and murder all those who represent a "threat" to the survival of the state and the "status quo." We, people of color, are considered the threat and that's why these fuckers primarily direct their campaign of murder and state terrorism against us! I'm fucking pissed off and tired of reading the news and watch the police murder Black and Latino young men while in custody or in the streets. This form of criminality and ethnic cleansing has to end! It's time for our communities to come together and form self-defense organizations and retaliate in kind against murderer cops everywhere!”

lolercaust

I like to call this the waco cycle.

Radical Communist/WhiteSupremacists/BlackSupremacist/ReligousCult: The government is after us, we must stockpile guns!

Government: Holy shit, their stockpiling guns, we have to go after them!

Rinse and Repeat.

I did a report on this story for Free Speech Radio News and posted it in the media gallery for those interested............
An inmate in a Maryland Count jail in custody for the alleged murder of a county police officer was found strangled to death in his cell. No one has been charged and with investigations underway there has not been much cooperation. Naji Mujahid reports from Washington.

Ronnie White was a suspect and died a suspect. If the police are telling the story, question what happened when he was apprehended and when he was killed. Ronnie White's past validates the abuse he took? How is officer Findley's record?

Prince Jones Jr., Ronnie L White....

Prince jones and Ronnie White's stories are like apples and oranges. That comparison is weak.

Prince: killed in Virginia by a PG County cop. He had not killed anyone, nor was he under suspicion of any killings. He was under investigation for narcotics violations. The officer invovled is an officer no more.

Ronnie White: killed in a Maryland jail cell by a prison guard after he killed a cop. Which guard did it, noone knows yet. The officer involved is no longer alive.

Thanks for making a good point here. Attitudes that Ronnie is a killer deserving of death are why an attempt at being just is in the system, that of calling him a suspect awaiting a careful process. He was in jail for being suspected of hitting an officer with a car. Guards don't get to kill people in revenge.

A murder is a murder is a murder.
Stop trying to justify when law officers do wrong.
NO WAY can a sane person justify the crap that was done in EITHER case.
This denies Officer Finley's memory/ legacy by murdering a Suspect in jail. This man may NOT have been driving the car. It may have been his buddy passing the blame. We'll NEVER know.
Even if he was driving the wheel, no suspect should be lynched. This is Jim Crow justice. How can you justify that without being seen as a racist? That's what White racists did in the South to keep the Black people in line. This is HATEFUL and EVIL and DEVILISH.

That's right. Prince Jones was MURDERED by the police too! He was tracked from Maryland through DC through Virginia and murdered. The police said they 'thought' he was someone else that was a criminal. NOTHING was done to this murdering cop!!! He had the wrong person and was envious of his SUV or something.

When a group of people don't particularly notice or care that a cop was murdered by a career criminal, that pretty much speaks volumes for what kind of people they are.

And let's not lose sight of the fact that this wasn't some random lynching like the old days - Ronnie White ran over a cop while committing a felony. The secret to not getting beat or killed by the cops, a secret most white people seem to know, is to not threaten or kill police officers and to not dress and act like you are part of some retarded street gang. Act civilized and the cops generally won't mess with you.

19 year old Ronnie White was apprehended in Laurel Square apartments during a search for who ran over stolen car specialty cop, Richard Findley, in Laurel Pines apartments with a stolen pick up truck, and he was found dead of asphyxiation the next day. His side of the story died with him.

Prince Jones Jr's side of the story died with him by the gun of a plainclothes officer, and Deonte Rawlings side of the story died with Deonte.

If someone is going to police or guard, they need the upmost training in restraint, patience and trust in the process they work for.

Lynching, or extra judicial murder, is a criminal act. The term and practice is not determined by the ethnic/racial history of its victims.

As to Ronnie White's alleged bad history, we have only "Collin's word (which is not much) on that. Besides that is quite beside the point. Under US law all are innocent until proven otherwise. If "Collin" can not abide by that, perhaps he/she may wish to move to France, where the reverse is so.

Cops kill people regularly and they get away with it regularly with such bogus excuses as, "well, it's a really stressful job", and "I thought he had a gun". Even when it is very clear that cops are cold-blooded murderers, such as in the Deonte Rawlings case, the cops still get let off the hook. Yet, when someone is alleged to have killed a cop, and there's not even any proof of it, the law enforcement community goes insane and thirsts for revenge. If the civilian population were to exact the same justice on cops that law enforcement exacts on the civilian population, there wouldn't be very many cops left without bullets in their heads.

"Cops kill people regularly and they get away with it regularly with such bogus excuses as, "well, it's a really stressful job", and "I thought he had a gun"."

It is a stressful job.
Police put their lives on the line every day to protect people like you and I.

"Even when it is very clear that cops are cold-blooded murderers, such as in the Deonte Rawlings case, the cops still get let off the hook"

It's unfortunate that some cops are criminals too.
What you never seem to realize though is that most cops are well-intentioned and want only to serve and protect society.

"Yet, when someone is alleged to have killed a cop, and there's not even any proof of it"

No proof?
Why don't you tell that to the family of Cpl. Findley?

Not too speak for Tariq but I would gladly tell the family that. Shit I don't care...if someone is being framed for something they might not have done and then are lynched for an action that wasn't yet proven to be done by the lynched, then people should know. If you were to ask me what I thought of lets say the murder of Daniel Faulkner, I think he deserved to die especially for all the pain and suffering that he has put Mumia and countless others through! Most cops are rotten to the core, I have met one genuine cop in my life who genuinely wants to serve and protect and you can see that in his eyes and his demeanor and I have seen a few overipe apples but most of them are rotten or maybe they are in offices and we never see them or deal with them in any police manner!

I have a friend who is a surgeon, his job is stressful but you don't see him killing his patients because he is stressed nor do you see him act like a complete asshole all the time because he is stressed. You could probably go up to just about any fucking person in America and they will tell you they are stressed and most people in America don't go around killing people or swinging billy clubs or tasers or shooting pepper spray at people nor do they go around lynching people. If these big fat idiots are so stressed out maybe they should start meditating or doing yoga or getting a different job or take a vacation like most normal people might do!

Stop sainting the alleged criminal when there is no evidence of them being productive members of society. Stop demonizing the cops when there is no evidence either. Let's be unbiased until such evidence is produced.

Lots of jobs are stressful, but having a stressful job doesn't give a person the right to kill. If stress makes you kill people, then don't get a stressful job. As far as cops "putting their lives on the line every day" to protect me; that's bullshit. I've never been protected by a cop, but I have been harrassed, brutalized, and kidnapped by cops. They're nothing but gangsters. And if law enforcement really did have so much proof against Ronnie White, then why didn't they wait for him to go to court to present their evidence as their own laws state? It's their system, and they can't even abide by it. Police don't care about law, they're nothing but a well-organized, well-funded, highly trained organized crime ring. When it comes to important issues in society, they always side with the oppressors. When the suffragettes fought for women's right to vote, who beat them up and put them in jail? Cops. When black people fought against segregation, who sprayed them with powerful hoses, beat them, shot them, arrested them, jailed them, and sent attack dogs to bite them? Cops. When workers demanded to be treated with dignity, who beat them, killed them, and jailed their leaders? Cops (and soldiers and pinkertons). When people opposed war, who beat them down and arrested them? Cops. When a 14-year-old boy in DC did absolutely nothing to harm anyone, who shot him execution style in the back of the head? Cops. When a man was going home from his bachelor party the night before his wedding, who killed him and shot 51 bullets indiscriminately? Cops. Who shot 41 bullets at Amadou Diallo before realizing they busted into the wrong place? cops. I could go on like this for pages and pages. The list of crimes committed by cops is longer than the DNA code! Yet, we're supposed to "respect their authority" and call them heroes? Cops can go to hell for all I care. Don't try that "they're-out-there-protecting-the-public" crap on me. I've seen too many cops in action to believe that load of horse shit. It's not "a few bad apples". Maybe there are a few good apples, but the general rule when it comes to law enforcement is, they're rotten to the core. Cops, if you really do want to improve society, you can start by killing yourselves.

"Lots of jobs are stressful, but having a stressful job doesn't give a person the right to kill."

Correct.
But most jobs do not put you into contact with people who would wish to kill you.
Police face this threat daily.

"I've never been protected by a cop"

That you know of.
How are so sure that none of the criminals incarcerated today would not pose a threat to you if still on the streets?

"I have been harrassed, brutalized, and kidnapped by cops."

Is this a euphemism for getting arrested?

"And if law enforcement really did have so much proof against Ronnie White, then why didn't they wait for him to go to court to present their evidence as their own laws state?"

Look, I agree with you.
The officer was wrong.
People like that should not be working in this field.
I hope he/she is brought to justice.

But let's look at the other side.
Say Mr. White killed one of your friends or relatives.
How would you feel?
Would you want to wait?
In a world with no cops, we would have to resort to vigilante justice.
Which would you prefer?

" I could go on like this for pages and pages. The list of crimes committed by cops is longer than the DNA code!"

You are absolutely right.
But were the cops alone in committing these crimes?
Or were they supported by the rest of society?

"I have been harrassed, brutalized, and kidnapped by cops."

Is this a euphemism for getting arrested?

No not really I have been attacked by cops and shoved around and had friends get shoved and pepper sprayed and gassed and tased and beaten all without getting arrested. Some people do also get brutalized when arrested or consider an arrest pretty brutal (because as I said some cases are or that is just the way they think). For some a strange person touching them and then putting them in cuffs and shoving them into their car is pretty bad, most people freak out too some degree and resist too some degree. I have been arrested and they said I resisted but really it was just natural human reaction to some stranger grabbing me and yelling at me and luckily I was able to calm myself and it wasn't really to traumatic but for some it is. I am sure Tariq can give you some pretty nasty stories as well

TODAY AT 11AM at PG COUNTY JAIL! Protest the lynching of Ronnie White

Amadou Diallo's fam was involved in another incident of abuse in PG County. They aided a family who lost a member to a fatal beating. A west African immigrant was attacked by a group of 15 year olds and fatally beaten in one of those for-the-fuck-of-it style beatdowns. The region could use a well applied effort of solidarity to heal the abuses of all harmful, not just "criminal" behavior, that come most crookedly from police but also from everyday folks. Northern PG's only sexual trauma center, the Sexual Assualt Center of PG General Hospital, is way too busy and underfunded. This region is hurting.

All the attempted defenses of what happened boil down to the attitude that it's okay in some people's minds for cops to act like criminals and kill whomever they think deserves it. And you attempt to justify this by claiming the job is stressful, that cops are expected to risk their lives and thus apparently deserve some slack when they become criminals and commit murder, and that being a suspect in a crime automatically makes it defensible for cops to murder such people.

But here's a news flash for you: nobody forces anyone to become a cop; and if you can't handle the fact that as a law ENFORCEMENT officer, you are expected to FOLLOW the law instead of assuming your badge gives you a right to BREAK the law, then don't become a cop. If you do become a cop, you are expected to follow the law, so don't bitch and moan about it later. And if you become a cop, fully aware of what is supposedly expected of you, and then you violate that sworn oath anyway, then you are WORSE than other "criminals" in fact, because you have violated a public trust as someone who was supposed to defend the law and the principles enshrined in the law.

And the question "How would you feel if it was YOUR family member that died" has nothing to do with it -- how a citizen might react in anger and emotion has NOTHING to do with what our impartial LAWS should do. The very reason we have laws in the first place is to avoid all of us acting strictly upon non-impartial motivations and emotions. I don't WANT the government to have the same range of actions that I want you and me and other people to have, nor do I want the government to act based on human emotion and action.

Sure, yes, we all know that those supposedly impartial laws must still be written and carried out by humans who are not really "impartial", but that doesn't mean we throw up our hands and fail to even try. And it doesn't mean we cheer or look away when the very people entrusted to enforce the law don't just violate it, but violate it in the worst ways, violate the most fundamental principles of the law -- innocent until PROVEN guilty, executed without trial or evidence.

How about this -- how about we just forgo a trial or evidence once again, and hand over those guards and cops to the family and friends of Ronnie White? Do you like that idea? How about every time a cop is accused -- yet again -- of gunning down an unarmed black man/woman, or beating up someone in custody, we just start forgoing trials and just hand them over to the angry citizens that gather outside the courthouse? How do you like that idea?

Of course, you DON'T like that idea at all. Because the only people you will EVER attempt to defend when they break the laws, murder people, beat people, and so on are police and military personnel. You would be defending them if they'd tossed a noose over a tree right in front of that jail and lynched White right in broad daylight on camera. Because you will and do defend any and every atrocity these kinds of people commit. You do it instantly, without care for what they did or why they did it.

Oh, and yet again we get the typical white-guy-pretending-to-be-a-black-guy crap posted here. It's ridiculous and you aren't fooling anyone, so stop acting childish and so transparently lying all the time. You're a right-wing white guy defending white guards murdering a black guy to get revenge on him, that's all you are.

And you all deny racial motivations no matter WHAT the situation, just like you find some way to defend even neo-nazis when they march or commit violence, always concerned only with attacking leftist who criticize racism and state violence. You defend, defend, defend anything and everything that is racist, that is government violence and abuse, because it is inherent in your real beliefs and that kind of hatred and violence lives in your heart. It's part of you, and we know it.

If you defend guards or cops murdering suspects, you are defending criminals and murderers, period. You reveal the hypocrisy and lies at the foundation of your beliefs and your character, which most of us already knew existed there anyway.

Anyone defending the killing of this man by guards is sick, is defending a racist murder, and nothing you say and no little lies or absurd hypocritical defense of police and guards changes that simple fact -- defending what happened in this case is disgusting, twisted, and inexcusable. But of course, I'd expect nothing less from the likes of you.

Bull crap! Drew is right!
You are defending the lynch mob.

"white guards murdering a black guy"

Hey Drew, where did you find the race of guard(s) in question?
I've been looking in the media but haven't seen this information.
Could you please provide a link?
Thank you.

You ask if "getting harrassed, brutalized, and kidnapped" by cops is a euphemism for being arrested? No, actually, "getting arrested" is a euphemism for getting harrassed, brutalized, and kidnapped by cops. Although, as one commentor already noted, sometimes cops harrass, brutalize, and kidnap without actually arresting anyone; and sometimes they just kill the person instead. You ask how do I know that the incarcerated would not pose a threat to me if still on the streets. Well, the majority of people in prison are in there for nonviolent offenses; mostly trifling matters. Of the small percentage who actually are mean and dangerous, I don't know that they wouldn't pose a threat to me if still on the streets, but I doubt they'd pose more of a threat to me than the police who are out on the streets pose. The police have committed more crimes against me in my life than any non-law-enforcement-related criminals ever have. Beyond that, I can defend myself from civilian criminals well enough, but if I defend myself from the cops who attack me, I get the full might of the state crushing down on me. For example, a few years ago I was attacked by a group of young men in my neighborhood who wanted to harm me because I dared talk back to them when they were harassing me. When they ran at me, I took off and excaped on foot. The next day I went out armed with rocks and bricks and when two of them saw me they got up and began approaching me. When they saw I was ready to knock the daylights out of them they immediately backed off. They never messed with me again. Now, that worked in that situation and there are other situations in which I'd have to find some other way to defend myself or escape, as rocks won't defend me from a gun for example. But imagine if cops attacked me because I talked back to them when they were harrassing me (which has happened). If I were to stand up and fight back to defend myself, the law would brand me a criminal and I would have the full force of the state after me until I was either dead or behind bars. I'd rather take my chances with civilian criminals than have to deal with the state's uniformed goon squad. The Nazis tried the same trick you're trying; to justify their existence by claiming that they "keep criminals off the streets." Hey cops, if you want to keep criminals off the streets, you can start by getting yourselves off the streets.

I am not sorry for Ronnie White, I am sorry for his family because THEY will forever have to live with what HE did. Cpl. Findley was a great man, father, police officer and friend. He did not believe in "skirting" the line or shoot first ask questions later. He was a police oficer first and believed in protecting the citizens in PG County. Ronnie White had a choice to make that day - run, not get in a stolen car, or put his hands in the air and accept the punishment for his crime. He chose to look Cpl. FIndley in the face run him over with the STOLEN truck and drag him to his death. He knew he was a cop, he rammed his cruiser first.. He knew exactly what he was doing. He was gonna kill a man. Not to mention - the apartment they were arrested in contained 4 lbs. of dope and an assault rifle. How or why can anyone feel sorry for this piece of crap? Good bye and so long!!!!
His family should feel lucky that they will at least be able to have an open casket, Cpl. Findley's wasn't.
*Notice that I never involved race in this comment - it isn't always about that*

How are you going to say Ronnie killed another person Colin I see your not from around here and have no clue. Ronnie never killed anyone before he didnt have the heart trust me and its never been proved he has and guess what because of law enforcement (CO's are law inforcers right) he never will because they killed him I hope that term makes your feelings better. So before you jump out there and assume things check your resources. I live here in laurel and I now all PG is looking for is the first to tell and write a statement. Think about this Mr Colin The passenger was shot not Ronnie why wouldnt the cop shoot the driver??????????. I also signed a petition for the Cop to become SGT so his family can get SGT benefits. So Im not taking sides here I want Facts. No one knows for sure who killed the CPL and no one will ever know because there is no trial Ronnie White is now deceased.

Well some of you have no idea what LYNCHED means.
It means that a person or people take the law into their own hands and decide the fate of an individual.
THIS MAN WAS LYNCHED by LAW OFFICERS.
You all can deny until you turn to dust, but this is a lynching in the county that I reside in. What makes it so sad is that PG County is HORRIBLE and so many people are trying to justify the murder of a suspect by law officers in his cell and that many people find this acceptable and justified. Many people are sick and are sheep. Once the law officers(correction officers ARE LAW OFFICERS btw) start to murder suspects, the system is corrupt.
Stop being emotional and understand that this is a LYNCHING.

the definition for lynching has already been given in this article. read^^

"This is Jim Crow justice. How can you justify that without being seen as a racist? That's what White racists did in the South to keep the Black people in line."

If it turns out the guard(s) in question are not white, will you still call this racism?

"*Notice that I never involved race in this comment - it isn't always about that*"

It doesn't matter if YOU claim "it's not about that" for YOU. It IS about race for black people who get lynched, murdered, beaten, abused, targeted, profiled, incarcerated at obscene rates, etc. You think that by YOU and others "not mentioning" -- meaning IGNORING -- the racism involved, that suddenly makes it not about race?

How absurd. Try to dodge and deny and lie all you want, little trolls. The bottom line is that you're defending the murder of a man by people supposedly part of the system for UPHOLDING laws. You are defending murderers with badges, period. And race was a factor in many ways -- would you argue that race wasn't a factor when Kapos participated in persecution during WWII, for example? You defend violation of civil rights by people meant to uphold the law, you defend murder of someone supposedly presumed innocent until proven guilty.

From now on, every single time any pathetic shrill little right-wing bigot troll comes around these boards and posts any stupid remark about leftists violating the law etc, you can expect to be called murder-supporting hypocrites in addition to all the other terms that also apply to you.

You folks never fail to disgust me.

"It doesn't matter if YOU claim "it's not about that" for YOU. It IS about race for black people who get lynched, murdered, beaten, abused, targeted, profiled, incarcerated at obscene rates, etc."

A non-sequitar.
Even if our judicial system were the most racist around, you still haven't shown any proof that White's murder was racially motivated.

the truth is that no matter what, he did not need to take a life in order to get away from the cops. criminals need to be punished, they need to not run from the law after disobeying the law. i am so sick and tired of seeing the criminal being sainted and the cop being demonized. tell the truth for once without distorting it.

It's racial simply because "Some" in the Black community want to always continue racism. They are succeeding as the media gives this issue extensive attention. I say White killed himself; there was a sheet in his cell. No matter how strong the evidence will point to this, clearly the "Few" will continue their attention grabbing ways just to keep racism alive. So many in the Black community are in fact humiliated by those who continue this behavior. My prayers are for all !

Racism is STILL alive. Thos who fail to admit that are living in a dream world.