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.
You hit the nail right on the head, bud.
Tyrant and mass murderer.
No police car should have been left unattended or abandoned. That what guns are for.
The same for unprotected firetrucks and hoses.
The Police Chief is a failure. The Mayor is a failure. The City Council is a failure. The whole damned city is a failure.
I got out just in time to avoid the 1968 riots which were the schematic for this one. Same tactics, same incompetence (Nancy Pelosi’s brother was the mayor, and anti-Semitic too).
As long as Democrats rule major US cities, they are doomed to be welfare prisons for decent blacks and white. It is the plantation system all over again but this time the taskmasters are blacks on blacks.
Not disgusting at all.
About an hour ago I saw several MD NG vehicles (soft top trucks and Hummers, no MRAPs) getting on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway Northbound (to Baltimore) at Greenbelt Road.
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>>But thats working so well in Venezuela, isnt it?
The majority of Generation XBox probably can’t even find Venezuela on a map. Expecting them to discern and articulate the relationship between a$$paper and systemic corruption is like asking a piglet to explain bacon.
No sense of ownership.
Enter the ACORN "ownership society" that crony kleptocrats gamed into billions for themselves while leaving the rest of us holding a bucket full of securitized a$$paper.
Every idiot should have a village of their own to burn down and a warm puppy to BBQ in the flames.
The Mayor’s STAND DOWN order is Baltimore’s Benghazi!!
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