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Baltimore Mayor: ‘I Never Said… That We Are Giving People Space To Destroy Our City’
CBS DC ^ | April 28, 2015 | Staff

Posted on 04/28/2015 2:25:10 PM PDT by Iron Munro

WASHINGTON — After Baltimore’s first round of rowdy protests on Saturday, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake came under fire for saying that the city gave people “who wished to destroy” space to do so.

“I worked with the police and instructed them to do everything that they could to make sure that the protesters were able to exercise their right to free speech,” Rawlings-Blake said to the media Saturday evening.

“It’s a very delicate balancing act because while we tried to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.”

On Monday, at another news conference on the riots that broke out in the streets following Freddie Gray’s funeral, Rawlings-Blake said she was misunderstood.

“I’m going to protect people’s right to protest,” she said. “The fact that people exploited that does not mean that I do not have an obligation to protect people’s right to protest. I never said, nor would I ever say, that we are giving people space to destroy our city. So my words should not be twisted.”

Gray, who was 25, died on April 19 — one week after suffering a severe spinal cord injury while in police custody.

Demonstrations have been nearly constant in the city ever since, and destructive riots broke out after his funeral on Monday. At least 15 officers were hurt Monday, including six who remained hospitalized late in the day, and two dozen people were arrested. Several buildings were burned, as well.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; blackkk; elijahcummings; martinomalley; maryland; ordertostanddown; race; raceriots; rawlingsblake; spacedestroy
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To: Iron Munro

“we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that”

That’s a direct quote.


61 posted on 04/28/2015 3:11:08 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that - Baltimore's Democrat Mayor)
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To: Iron Munro

Can’t Democrats tell the truth about anything?

She misspoke. Fine. Admit the mistake. Tell people what she said that was wrong. Clarify what you meant. Set the record straight.

Don’t just outright lie about a quote.


62 posted on 04/28/2015 3:12:38 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that - Baltimore's Democrat Mayor)
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To: Jagdgewehr

That she clearly is.


63 posted on 04/28/2015 3:15:17 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Iron Munro
so it was some other silly fat cow impersonating you what said it... is that it??? yeah, right...

64 posted on 04/28/2015 3:22:46 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Iron Munro

The really disquieting thing is that cops followed the order to go out there and do nothing but witness as the law is violated and property is destroyed and lives endangered. None had the manhood insist they be free to do their jobs or be pulled out entirely.


65 posted on 04/28/2015 3:22:54 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job...)
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To: TalBlack

Shouldn’t this affirmative-action mayor be resigning immediately and leaving the city? What incompetence.


66 posted on 04/28/2015 3:27:35 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Heard the police spokesman in Baltimore say that “no one expects us to come in with tanks against 13 year olds.”


67 posted on 04/28/2015 3:33:05 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl
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To: Iron Munro

Ferguson on a bigger stage. Baltimore is following the path of Detroit.


68 posted on 04/28/2015 3:38:45 PM PDT by dynachrome (We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.)
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To: Iron Munro

And she thinks people will only believe her now.

She gave the go ahead

Obama told her to

Had she been serious, she wouldn’t have waited 5 hours to call the NG in. Of course, that was to discredit the White, RINO governor and make him the guilty party.


69 posted on 04/28/2015 3:41:27 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Iron Munro

The only thing that was twisted is what subs as her thinking process. She confirmed, by refusing to enact the curfew last night, her own words and exactly what she meant by them. This moron should be fired or forced to step down immediately. Hell, promote Sheriff Clarke. He’d make a helluva good mayor.


70 posted on 04/28/2015 3:52:34 PM PDT by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie)
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To: combat_boots
Per some reports, the Gov and Mayor had several phone exchanges yesterday. The Gov offered several times to call up the National Guard, but the Mayor declined the offers and say she had the situation under control.

[I think she ‘hoped’ the agitation would burn itself out and everyone would get tired and go home when it got dark. She apparently didn't watch any news regarding Ferguson and those riots.]

71 posted on 04/28/2015 4:03:00 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Iron Munro

Yes she did...I HEARD AND SAW HER SAY IT!


72 posted on 04/28/2015 4:18:45 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ($$$$$ Don't Defund the Government...Defund Obama and his illegal policies $$$$$)
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To: skeeter
I understand what the mayor trying to say, albeit in a very clumsy and inarticulate way.

Well, she is a clumsy and inarticulate moron.

But her actions spoke clearly: she gave thugs plenty of space to destroy.


73 posted on 04/28/2015 4:33:29 PM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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To: skeeter
I also believe she ordered the cops to stand down and deserves every iota of criticism for mishandling the situation.

I'm wondering if it was Obama who coerced the mayor and the police chief to have the police stand-down. And her statement was a Freudian Slip because she knew what standing down would bring.

74 posted on 04/28/2015 4:37:20 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: skeeter

Just trying to bring you back to reality.


75 posted on 04/28/2015 6:07:07 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: P-Marlowe

Well, I cant help it. It is my take on what the knucklehead said.


76 posted on 04/28/2015 6:09:37 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

Gaffe - Inadvertently saying what you really think.


77 posted on 04/28/2015 6:10:39 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Bodleian_Girl

A thirteen year old with an AK-47 or an RPG is more dangerous than a grown man.


78 posted on 04/28/2015 6:23:18 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: clee1
For the record, I believe the dumbazz mayor MEANT to say “demonstrate” not “destroy”.

Double Freudian slip?

Did she really mean to give them the room to destroy but wanted to cover up by saying demonstrate? Only to slip up and say "Destroy" instead of "Demonstrate"?


79 posted on 04/28/2015 8:30:20 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Oh, yeah. A voluntary internal aWe may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: Uncle Miltie
Don’t just outright lie about a quote.

Why not? It has worked for most every corrupt politician since time began.

80 posted on 04/28/2015 9:28:48 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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