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.
How about “Charmin’ Carmen”?
Okay, I LOL’ed in the cube farm over that one...
:^)
One Dawg Brother to ‘nuther... Woof!
Just got a txt from a friend on the west side of Baltimore near the Security Mall (and not far from the Social Security complex) that a mob is forming there.
My husband, and our two small sons who were 6 and three years old traveled in late September or early October 1966 from Upstate New York to Florida. Baltimore was one city we traveled through and as we drove through I thought to my self this is not where I would want to live. The streets were dirty and stuff like that. Coming from Germany I had never seen a place like that
I always wonder why rioters destroy their own community?
So, can you tell me the difference between Baltimore and Katmandu? The folks in Katmandu are civilized.
Naaah, I still say they are definitely NOT slaves! I’m not sure what the right word is but a slave is someone who works every day just to exist, no pay, just enough food to keep them alive, a place to crash at night and just enough clothing and shelter to prevent death from exposure. These people are not slaves, they are more like pampered pets. They don’t work, they are paid for not working and many of them live better than some who do work every day.
1609 was a good year. My 9th Great Grandaddy, John Chandler, landed nearby on the James River, riding the Hercules. He staked out some riverfront property about where Newport News is and the family kept the neighborhood cleaned up for over a century. Then they sold out to move West and the neighborhood has been going downhill ever since. I was ready to burn it down and start over in 1961.
Someday, far in the furure, an archaelogist is going to dig up Baltimore, take a good look around, laugh his ass off, and promptly re-bury the whole thing.
Even if you’re buying the walmart brand at a better price you’re still getting the cheepkrap. Please try to step it up a little.
That’s exactly right. A butthead throwing a rock in my neighborhood would be dead before his rock hit the ground.-———————Code of the West.
They are indeed civilized in Katmandu
? I am not sure what you mean?
From the article:
“The commissioner added that the rioters had pulled his officers to ‘opposite ends of the city’ and had ‘outnumbered us and outflanked us.”
The Baltimore Police Commissioner admits that semi-literate dope smoking yout bands outsmarted and outmanuvered his police force.
Time for new faces from the top down to precinct commanders.
“Just got a txt from a friend on the west side of Baltimore near the Security Mall (and not far from the Social Security complex) that a mob is forming there.”
Mob? Nah, just a group of brotha’s getting ready to do some shopping.
Mine didn’t get over here until 1614, also landing on the James around Brandon, I think.
When the cops fully retreat from the inner cities, and they will...then these gangs will find themselves with little to loot, eat or drink.
That's when they'll begin to venture out. That's when they'll learn about the American Rifleman.
They should enjoy their ignorance while it lasts.
One day we will read about a gang of 46 thugs that got surrounded and shot dead by unknown members of an outlying community. No witnesses.
Or from...
I guess some of our families should have stayed in the neighborhood? Sure has turned into krap now.
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