Posted on 04/28/2015 5:41:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
After a week of protests and the funeral of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who recently died in police custody of serious injuries, rioters took to the streets of Baltimore late Monday afternoon and rampaged through the city until the early hours of the morning burning buildings, cars, looting local stores, attacking police and reporters. Fifteen police officers were injured and the hoses being use by firefighters to put out an inferno at a CVS were cut.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake made several statements last night and announced a curfew...that starts tonight. Governor Larry Hogan called in the National Guard to restore order, but mostly rioters went home without arrests and the police commissioner is admitting cops were overwhelmed and overrun.
"Yes, we planned for it. That wasn't the issue," Batts told reporters late Monday. "We just had too many people out there [for us] to overcome the numbers we had." The commissioner added that the rioters had pulled his officers to "opposite ends of the city" and had "outnumbered us and outflanked us."
"These acts of violence and destruction of property cannot and will not be tolerated," Hogan said at a late-night press conference. The governor also said he was deploying 500 state troopers and had asked for 5,000 officers from neighboring states to deal with the violence.
What happened in Baltimore is being called a race riot, despite the fact that the majority of the police officers and government officials working in the city are African-American.
Yesterday, Baltimore Police released a memo about violent gangs the Crips, Bloods and Black Guerrilla family joining forces to kill cops.
Local residents and business owners are describing the situation as "heartbreaking" and are cleaning up their community this morning.
This is Jason Butler. He showed up this morning to clean up a devastated neighborhood #BaltimoreRiots pic.twitter.com/A6jFFDLphZ— Megan Pringle (@MeganWBAL) April 28, 2015
Newly minted Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who was sworn in last Friday, has sent DOJ officials to Baltimore to investigate.
I’m thinking that Abraham Lincoln would be having some second thoughts about what he did to America.
The city of Baltimore needs to issue some Courageous Restraint medals to these officers.
Let’s go back to about 1609 for hindsight.
A shoot to kill order would stop all rioting.
In all fairness to the Tyrant Lincoln, Democrats have been oppressing blacks ever since the Civil War.
Culture of Violence. The police are ordered to stand down, and the thugs are given permission to destroy.
In their minds, its payback. We are supposed to accept that America actually deserves this.
In ten to twenty years there will be very few brick and mortar stores. Between the benefits, the ever increasing pay and riots business will move to an Amazon.com model. I recently bought automotive stuff on Amazon, the same brand as Wal-Mart and paid half of Wal-Mart’s price. I now search every purchase online first.
In a way, yes, America does deserve this.
http://www.numberofabortions.com/
When are white people going to say “enough!?”
White people marching on City Hall and stringing up the mayor would be a lot more fun though.
What makes me mad is now I like at every black man suspiciously when most of them are just men.
At least you ain't blamin' Bush....Johnson, and the Dems of the day and since then, had more to do with it than Lincoln. In the '50s, they were well on the way to integrating as useful members of society and with solid family structure.
..I look at..
Community poo-leasing in action.
"Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Thanks ISIS Advocates (The Nation of Islam) For their Support…"
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/04/26/baltimore-mayor-stephanie-rawlings-thanks-isis-advocates-the-nation-of-islam-for-their-support/
The Useful Idiot rioters is jus' "doin' their job".
” Attack Reporters”
In every storm cloud, there is a silver lining.
The repairs for destruction of public and private property should not be put on the taxpayers...AGAIN!!!!
PERIOD!
Thank you! Funny that we haven’t heard that approach from any of the authorities in B-more.
Yo, honkies. I'm in yo crib. And I gots yo Charmin.
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