While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Freddie Gray of Baltimore, maryland dies from injuries inflicted upon him a week earlier by six Baltimore statute enforcement officers (acting under-color-of-law). 

       Gray was walking on a city sidewalk when he made eye contact with SEO Lieutenant Brian Rice; Gray then began to run.  Rice began a pursuit and arrested Gray for allegedly carrying an illegal knife.  Gray was able to run before his arrest, but upon arrival at the County jail, his spinal cord was 80% severed.

       NOTES:

• In 2012 Rice was suspended and hospitalized for threatening to shoot himself. The next year he was disciplined again for stalking his ex-lover.
• Over the previous five years, the Baltimore SE department has paid out millions in compensation to victims of their “rough rides.”

       [added 12/25/2022] Thanks to G. Edward Griffin for this entry.