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.
“When are white people going to say “enough!?””
Not until this spills over into the quiet white suburbs.
As long as it is contained “down there”, most of the sheeple will just continue on, oblivious.
I know, because I lived in a suburb of Detroit during their 1967 riots.
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So did my wife and in-laws..... They lived in Taylor-tucky. (But, they were, and are, NOT hillbillies..... chuckle, chuckle.)
Three Our Fathers and three Hail Marys for posting that.
Go forth and sin no more.
Lincoln doubted whether black and white could live together and therefore supported American Blacks moving to Liberia.
Alas, to even mention this historical fact brings paroxysms of rage to Libtards, edumacators, domestic commies - but I repeat myself.
I GONNA MAKE BALTIMORE MAN.... even more famous that smiley cirus
I would think the southern plantation owners would be the ones with second thoughts. Should have picked our own damned cotton.
“how could the cops let it get to the point that their vehicles could get trashed?”
Perhaps the Black, female Mayor’s orders “Not To Shoot Rioter” just may be an explanation?
Mom did a great job there but the question is, where’s Dad??
For many of these young (black) thugs, Dad is in prison, dead, or out of the picture. It’s a tragedy all around.
Clearly, he is there to help clean up the mess.
History most certainly backs up your statement.
We need a name for this one - the Nawlins guy was “Cooter the Looter”, or “Beer Guy”.
What about “Teepee Tongue”?
Yes We Can Man,,,, might be the most appropriate
A bunch of retailers were pressured in to helping develop a shopping center where the CVS burned. Every CEO should issue a statement where they make it clear the stores will NOT be rebuilt or opened again. The city’s inability to protect employees or property forced the decision.
SCREW them all. Let them take a train or bus to go shopping or pick up a prescription.
On second thought...
A campaign needs to be suggested/launched where prominent BLACK entertainers(JayZ, Beyoncé,Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson) and sports figures(Barkely, Lebron, etc.) are asked/shamed to invest multi-millions of THEIR dollars into these “communities”.
Let’s see how much traction that effort gets.
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