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While Baltimore Police Idle, Black Lives Perish
The Intercept ^ | June 17, 2015 | Juan Thompson

Posted on 06/18/2015 3:17:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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Watch out what you wish for.
1 posted on 06/18/2015 3:17:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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...it appears Baltimore police have initiated what is tantamount to a work stoppage...

An example of a union "work to rule" action.

2 posted on 06/18/2015 3:23:05 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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Reap The Whirlwind .... but all you black Baptist folk know that ... right ?

You DID take your kids to church and teach them .. right ?

You too ... stupid white folks ...

Why do you think America is burning ?

3 posted on 06/18/2015 3:23:27 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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I have a hard time caring about any of this.


4 posted on 06/18/2015 3:27:33 AM PDT by Gluteus Maximus
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downtrodden....


5 posted on 06/18/2015 3:33:45 AM PDT by Recompennation
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This is a horrendous crime, but I don’t see how any type of police work could have prevented it from happening.


6 posted on 06/18/2015 3:37:35 AM PDT by jocon307
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And beleaguered too what I mean!!!!


7 posted on 06/18/2015 3:37:41 AM PDT by Recompennation
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Watch out what you wish for.

While I don't like to see all this bloodshed, what did they expect to happen? They wanted less of a police presence. They got it.

8 posted on 06/18/2015 3:38:01 AM PDT by Mark17 (Take up they cross and follow me. I hear the blessed savior call. How can I make a lesser sacrifice?)
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Really?
I have no proble NOT caring about this.
These people got what they asked for. The police haven’t shut down because they were criticised... The police fear that any questioning of a black person will result in their arrest and prosecution before an investigation.

Baltimore, you reap what you sow.


9 posted on 06/18/2015 3:38:22 AM PDT by CPONav
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In the context of Baltimore, this means not targeting impoverished people hustling for a better existence who may be involved in petty street crime.

IOW, the inverse of the broken window policing that turned NYC around.

10 posted on 06/18/2015 3:39:11 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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Remember those two monsters that were arrested and thrown in jail the next time some lib starts wringing his/her hands about the greater percentage of blacks in jail. That’s the type of people who end up in jail, not based on the color of their skin, but based on their criminal activities, usually targeting other blacks.


11 posted on 06/18/2015 3:41:36 AM PDT by winner3000
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It wouldn’t have happened that way at most white evangelical or charismatic churches, because the leadership, deacons/trustees/elders or whatever they might be called and the ushers are usually armed.


12 posted on 06/18/2015 3:43:25 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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I guess the people had better learn to defend themselves and police their own neighborhoods. Vigilante justice may need to have a comeback.


13 posted on 06/18/2015 3:44:05 AM PDT by Truth29
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Ideally, this would lead to a call for "Shall Issue" CCW in Maryland.

The whole point of CCW is to enable a private citizen to defend himself and his loved ones when police are not around.

14 posted on 06/18/2015 3:49:32 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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“We’re battling the police and our own people,” said Juan Nance, an organizer with 300 Men, a local anti-violence organization. “It’s a shame, but this is the reality. I think the city, particularly the police, has written us off.”

In other words: “I want it BOTH ways!”

Yup...the typical Liberal BS

Very dumb. On the one hand, ‘I’m in a fight with my neighbors, that I CAN resolve’. On the OTHER hand, ‘I CHOSE a fight with the guy who protects me when my neighbor STILL wants to fight.’


15 posted on 06/18/2015 3:50:28 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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A third suspect, 14 years old, has been arrested and is being charged as an adult. This was a gang initiation, according to the police.


16 posted on 06/18/2015 3:52:12 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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“...they also need the police to do their jobs and protect them from the most violent criminal elements of urban life. In the context of Baltimore, this means not targeting impoverished people hustling for a better existence who may be involved in petty street crime.”

So what does this mean? Are the cops supposed to protect the lives of petty criminals while they do their “petty street crime” unimpeded?

Anchors aweigh, Chief.
ETN3 USS Saratoga, Med ‘64 and ‘65


17 posted on 06/18/2015 3:55:11 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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There is no respect. Police are under siege in every quarter. They are more afraid of going to jail for doing their jobs properly than they are of getting shot on duty.

This is what happens when city leaders and prosecutors side with race and politics instead of the law.

18 posted on 06/18/2015 3:57:28 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Border Fence Obamacare!)
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When people are INCAPABLE of controlling themselves... THAT’S why we have governments and THAT’S why we have police.

No law without order... no freedom without law. It ain’t rocket science.


19 posted on 06/18/2015 3:57:48 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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“Vigilante justice may need to have a comeback”...........

Thereby contributing to more crime by those who wish to fix the problem.


20 posted on 06/18/2015 3:59:09 AM PDT by DaveA37
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