Posted on 04/27/2015 12:28:50 PM PDT by kristinn
The University of Maryland, Baltimore and numerous downtown businesses closed early Monday, citing concerns about potentially violent activity in the area.
Lexington Market, a city courthouse and businesses including T. Rowe Price and Venable LLP said police warned them of large gatherings and protests downtown.
According to widely circulated flier, a high school "purge" was to take place at 3 p.m., starting at Mondawmin and ending downtown.
Such memes have been known to circulate regularly, but today's has led to bolstered police presence around the city.
The flier includes an image of protesters smashing the windshield of a police car this past weekend after a march spurred by the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old man who died earlier this month after being arrested by city police, turned violent and destructive.
A post on the University of Maryland Baltimore's website said that the closure was prompted by a recommendation from city police. The campus will also stop shuttle service.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Funny, I grew up in DC from 1951, and visited Baltimore uncounted times and never ever heard it called charm city. Many other things, but never Charm City. Is this a new thing, like Naggin’s NO Chocolate City?
Okay, maybe I will consider visiting the fort.
If ya see a news conference with Ms. Mayor, link me.
Well this whole thing is criminal....nothing to do with protests....but some will still try to say it is...it’s not ..it’s criminal behavior.
Sometimes I think they want this to escalate so they can loot.......
They’re looting a large mall, and the video seized due to bandwidth being choked...
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If you compare pictures from Baltimore and South Africa there is not much difference. They must have the same rioting manual. Fighting police, lighting fires, carrying sticks, throwing rocks, looting, damaging property.
Towson Center mall closed as precaution. (Just north of Baltimore.)
Man carrying gun reported in Towson University Library.
Cars are forming almost a take out line of looting at #mondawminMall...they are not kids... they are adults. @FOXBaltimore
Because these rioting revolutionaries really give a damn about the law. Just tell them it's time for beddy-bye and I'm sure they will comply.
This a city deserves this Idiot you call Mayor.
You ignorant bitch, WTF did you think would happen when you stated you were going to give them room to riot.
Oh now she’s really mad.
Freaking joke!
Mayor speaking now. Sounds overwhelmed. Curfew to start tomorrow 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. Will last one week. Juvenile curfew always in effect.
City idiots are speaking now. Says “We are not going to tolerate this.’.....Right
Good. Thanks.
The Department of Just Us is there now too. Oh boy!
Not enough ARMED LIBERALS in the Upper Park Heights, Liberty Road, and Upper Reistertown Ave. areas to put down the brothers from Park Heights alone. Now, come out to Baltimore County and you will find some Republicans willing to fight. The Dems are cowards and asskissers.
I know. I lived there in Ranchleigh. Too many libs without guns. However, the Orthodox Jews out in the Greenspring Area will fight back. We’re not the Reform, who surrender at the drop of a Molotov cocktail.
Trust in God but keep your weapon clean and loaded. Praise the Lord and pass the hollow-points.
Glad I left that Democrat/liberal/black craphole many years ago. I was once proud of Baltimore, esp. under the late, great Mayor McKeldin, a real, honest liberal and gentleman, but after the 60’s, the city got on the “Express Elevator to Hell” and has never stopped its descent into a jungle.
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