Posted on 04/27/2015 12:03:02 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
The reaction from authorities and activists to the violence exploding from protests in Baltimore appears to be a start of a pattern.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake “thanked the Nation of Islam” Saturday, “who have been very present in our efforts to keep calm and peace in our city.”
The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross asked the mayor’s office relating to her comments about giving “space” to those who wish to “destroy.” The mayor’s office would only say her comments were taken out of context.
The thank you came following the riots that erupted from local protests relating to the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died from spinal injuries he incurred during his detainment by Baltimore law enforcement.
Malik Zulu Shabazz, former chairman of the New Black Panther Party, descended upon the city the day before the protests began and he told supporters at a rally, “Shut it down if you want to! Shut it down!”
After the violence erupted the next day, he told a reporter his remarks were only condoning civil disobedience, not mass violence. However, he was “not surprised” by the protesters anger because they “haven’t received justice.”
Bloods, Crips and Nation of Islam members posed with one another on Saturday afternoon in Baltimore. The photo was posted on the Million Man March Facebook page with the caption “Bloods and Crips unite for justice for Freddie Gray #JusticeOrElse.”
The alliance between the Nation of Islam and gangs is not unusual. The Washington Times reported in 2013 that Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan suggested that gang bangers are “natural soldiers” who could be taught the “science of war.”
A similar scenario with the police, gang members and the Nation of Islam happened in Ferguson, Missouri last summer when riots erupted after Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson during a struggle. Newsweek reported at the time that the riots in Ferguson were a major “recruitment tool” for the gangs in the area.
During a press briefing, National Review noted, when Missouri Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson announced a curfew in Ferguson, Shabazz told Johnson his organization — as well as the Nation of Islam — were controlling the situation in Ferguson.
By November, Farrakhan declared that if the demands of Feruson protesters weren’t met, “We’ll tear this goddamn country apart!”
“As you well know, on Thursday night, my group — and thanks to you — my organizers, along with the New Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam, we are the ones who put those men in the streets and we controlled the flow of traffic,” he said.
“I personally shut down the avenue at 2 o’clock,” Shabazz said to Johnson. “You were there, and you witnessed that,” he said noting that establishing a curfew would be a “prescription for confrontation” between protesters and police, adding that the violent confrontations ended because “we have the rapport with the demonstrators—they respect me. They respect us.”
Johnson agreed that Shabazz was “absolutely correct” in his assertions.
A grand jury did not bring charges against Wilson and the Department of Justice cleared the officer of any wrong doing.
The Daily Caller reported in early January that Farrakhan called for “retaliation” for the death of Brown. One month later, two NYPD officers were killed execution style.
The incident happened after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio criticized the NYPD, saying his biracial son, Dante, should be fearful of police as a result of law enforcement’s apparent bias against black people. The remarks were made during protests of the NYPD’s handling of Eric Garner, a black man who died when police held him down during an attempted arrest in Staten Island.
The Baltimore City Police received a credible threat Monday that gang members are looking to take out law enforcement. The threat appears similar to a warning the NYPD received from some gang members during the Garner protests.
The police department should immediately disband and/or offer its svces to an adjoining town.
This can’t end well.
I don’t see a lot of diversity in that photo.
They are going to burn Baltimore City to the ground.
And CNN, MSNBC and the like will call them “Peaceful”
This is nothing like Ferguson.
If you are going to give “space” to those who want to “destroy” why not give space to the vigilantes your city desperately needs to destroy the riotous criminals?
The only answer it that the Mayor is on the side of the rioters.
Target rich environment?
It won't.
It will end in blood and fire.
“Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake “thanked the Nation of Islam” Saturday, “who have been very present in our efforts to keep calm and peace in our city.”
Does she really think the NOI (Nation of Islam) is a peaceful, positive force? They think all whites will die when the great mother ship descends (all whites are devils).
What difference is there between that and using the KKK or the brownshirts for helping keep order?
Gon’ keel yew Crackuh Mutha****as!
Nice crowd. One grenade.
I can think of one way it could end well.
The preening latte crowd can squeal, "But, but, but WE SUPPORT YOUR STRUGGLE!!" as their doors are kicked in.
What’s sad is that Farrakhan is right. S*** hole cities like Ferguson and now Baltimore have been ceded over to the ferals. Decades of democratic rule have left nothing but cess-pools of sub-human, third world conditions, so that now the primates are in control of the zoo.
Welcome to it.
Just don’t try and make a move to the real America.
“What difference is there between that and using the KKK or the brownshirts for helping keep order?”
None!
Good. They voted for evil and got it. Anyone with a brain should have put their family before their toys and left when that happened.
Glad we bought more ammo last year. Keep buying it.
Multiple Pee-Wee Herman impersonators, to say the least.
she’s black, what a shock. Pretty though.
you get what you vote for.
I’m ashamed of whites, who didn’t destroy a dam thing when all of those homeless whites in California were getting gunned down like dogs by the police a ways back s/
Cruz will get elected, all this nonsense will pass, and they will once again miss out on eight years of prosperity while voting 100000% democrat
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