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.
Creating a permanent underclass that is totally dependent on the government for all its members’ cradle-to-grave needs might be a bang up way for socialists and liberals to garner huge blocks of reliable voters, but it rots the very souls of the folks being used by robbing them of constructive purpose and self-worth. These unhappy people don’t realize it but they are slaves and their masters are letting them have a short run out of the kennel. Soon, when the looting gets too near their owners’ mansions, the order will come to behave.
Obama and company would declare war on those who decided to (ala Barney Fife) nip it in the bud....
Hmmm. I guess he doesn't have faith in the Wall Mart, err I mean the Soviet/Oligarchic, methodology for the centralized utilitarian distribution of toilet paper.
It will be a long damn time. Too many “whites’(?) support the political agenda that undergird the programs that promote the behavior that you speak of.
Smart man .... Clearly he doesn't have a job. What he risked stealing was of little value. He also showed that he is morally void.
This is Democrat/liberal/progressive ideology in action. Take fro those who are better off than you. Forcibly take. Got to admire these people for taking the initiative and doing it themselves rather than waiting for the government to do it for them. Majority vote or at gun point, theft is theft. Thou shall not steal. No exemption for majority vote.
why is that undocumented shopper sticking his tongue out?
Notice no whites come to the aid of the police, there are three counties in Maine that would get such help, but for the most part, white America will let the cops and the blacks fight it out and then move in a pick up the pieces.
My suggestion to the police and the rioters, keep it in the cities, don’t come out into the countryside, it is safer for you in the cities. And when you see someone from rural areas come into the city, leave them alone, don’t fool with fire.
Shock troops in their hatred of Western Civ.
Are you questioning the content of his character, hater?
Word is out that Al Sharpton is inbound to participate...
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It is an open invitation to Lynch, Obama, and Bohner to be their monica lewinsky.
The cops have orders not to shoot the individuals who are throwing rocks at them, and who are setting fire to buildings and cars. Meanwhile, cops are shooting old men in nursing homes and boys with squirt guns.
This is not the country I grew up in.
keep it in the cities, don’t come out into the countryside, it is safer for you in the cities
I tell ya right now, the President ought to take control of this situation in Baltimore. /s
Never in a million. As the evidence shows, it is all bad. And obviously on display. There is no room for argument, even if one desires to.
Once again they are mostly trashing their own neighborhoods and sh***ng in their own nest. Those in the suburbs should be stocking up on ammo, getting in range time (at distance) and reinforcing the homestead. IF they want to bring the fight out of their own neighborhoods, we’ll be ready.
History repeats itself.
Wonder if we’ll get a new state song?
or just use an old one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCkNu9OxThc
“You won’t let me buy no toilet paper with my food stamps? Fine, I’ll LOOT it!”
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