Posted on 06/12/2015 2:20:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
BALTIMORE — From the steps of her New Bethlehem Baptist Church, the Rev. Lisa Weah looked down the block to the open-air drug market outside the bodega on the corner a few hundred feet away.
The traffic there had been slowing until the chaos that followed the death of Freddie Gray on April 19, after he was injured in police custody. Now it is back full-bore, and the police are often nowhere to be seen.
A month and a half after six officers were charged in Mr. Gray’s death, policing has dwindled in some of Baltimore’s most dangerous neighborhoods, and murders have risen to levels not seen in four decades. The totals include a 29-year-old man fatally shot on this drug corner last month. Police union officials say that officers are still coming to work, but that some feel a newfound reluctance and are stepping back, questioning whether they will be prosecuted for actions they take on the job....
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Well, the agitators and the dopes who follow them wanted no police. And that’s what they got.
As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.
Sounds like an interesting experiment.
Let those savages kill each other. WGAF.
Beginning to care less and less about Urban dwellers getting the consequences of their own life choices.
Amen brother!
Black lives matter to me and I pledge not to take one. What they do to each other in their own neighborhoods is not my responsibility or concern. Go tell it to the Kenyan.
Dunkin’ Doughnuts will be the only place of refuge.
The union is government, and it is the police, never let your government unionize against you.
The voters need to look at removing the chief.
These cops face pretty crappy consequences ranging from job loss all the way thru being charged criminally for doing anything that outrages blacks. This is spreading accross the country.
If I was a cop, I wouldn’t go down there.
You’ll get shot and then get arrested for trying to enforce the law.
Just desserts.
Not even in self-defense?
With the police this may mean the end to the uncorrupted police force. The third world is full of police departments up for sale. We may be next.
the chief reports to the mayor
the voters elected the mayor
I’m concerned about you getting sick over this. Don’t let it eat at you :)
I know, they need to get rid of the leaders who can’t control the police, and they need to look to some conservatism, for advice on how to fight the government police union, which was there before the mayor, and will help decide the next mayor, and that will be there after the next mayor.
ditto that.
Seems to me they asked for it.
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