Fox: Mayor Ordered Cops to Stand Down

RUSH: Remember after Toya Graham went out there and now, as they're saying, "beat" her son upside the head when she saw him rioting? Remember the police commissioner, Anthony Batts said, "More mothers should be like Toya Graham." In fact, do you remember on Monday?

I made a big deal here out of telling you -- and I played the sound bites for you -- of all the people that are focusing on the children and how parents need to get better control of their kids, it's up to the parents. You had the police chief saying so, the mayor say so, any number of officials say, "It's up to parents to control their kids." And everybody was saying, "Why? What do kids have to do with this?"

That's when we learned that the stuff that happened on Monday had nothing to do with Freddie Gray. That riot at the mall was sponsored by the flier promoting a movie that imagines what life would be like without any rules. So they've got a pattern now, folks. The Gentle Giant meme or narrative, if you will, very likely being repeated here in Baltimore. So all of this is happening for what very well could be no reason whatsoever, at least in terms of oppression and injustice and all the usual things that we hear.

Now, let's head back to the audio sound bites. Last night, Your World With Neil Cavuto on the Fox News Channel. They have a correspondent out doing a bunch of good work. His name is Leland Vittert, and Cavuto spoke with Leland Vittert about new information from the mayor's response to the Baltimore riots. Neil Cavuto said, "Did the mayor say 'Let the protesters loot,' Leland?"

VITTERT: This is coming from a very senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the orders that were given by the mayor and by her police commanders down to the very core of the police riot-control units, and what I am quoting now from him as quoting the mayor, "Let them loot. It's only property."

RUSH: Oh, no! Here comes another one against the mayor, that she's gonna have to go out and explain why she didn't really say what she said or how we are misunderstanding what she said. The police, according to another report, were told to stand down during the riots 37 we know that's true. We know the police were told to stand down. Remember, there's this convoluted theory out there that a strong police presence increases riots, and a silent or invisible police presence makes things more peaceful.

But the idea that a strong police presence creates riots fulfills the narrative that the cops are to blame, you see, which is what the left wants everybody to believe. So here's Leland Vittert, and he's got "a very senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the orders that were given by the mayor... I am quoting now from him as quoting the mayor, 'Let them loot. It's only property.'" Here's the thing: Knowing what you know of this mayor and the things she's already said, you could almost believe that.

Yesterday on America's Newsroom Bill Hemmer interviewed the mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and there's this little exchange, goes by fast, nine seconds here.

BLAKE: No. But you have to be... you have to understand, it's not holding back. It's responding appropriately.

RUSH: No, no, no. "It's not holding back. It's responding appropriately" by not responding. Yes, there wasn't any holding back. What are you talking, holding back? And here's Leland Vittert: The mayor said, "Let them loot. It's only property." People are having trouble digesting this. Surely she couldn't have meant what she said. That's what I heard on Monday. When I got here on Monday, I played the mayor's statement about giving "those who want to destroy space to do it."

I had people say, "Rush, come on, you know she didn't mean that. You gotta cut some people some slack sometime." Then she went out and tried to explain what she meant and kind of made it worse. Let's go back and revisit Saturday night Mayor Stephanie Rawlings black and her press conference responding to the violent protests over the death of the Freddie Gray. Freddie Gray, yeah.

BLAKE: I've made it very clear that I, um, work with the police and instructed them to do everything that they could to make sure that the protesters were able to exercise their, uh, right to free speech. It's a very delicate balancing act because while we, uh, try to make that they were protected from the cars and the other, y'know, things that were going on. We also gave those who wished to destroy, space to do that as well.

RUSH: Now, what she says she's saying is, "We backed off and we gave the peaceful protesters room to do it and then we got snookered. Yep! We were being nice to the peaceful protesters; then the bad actors came in there and they took over. And since we had given the good guys space, the bad actors took it and they had the space and they wanted to destroy," and that's what she says she meant when she said, "You know, things were going on. We also gave those who wished to destroy space to do as well."

She's saying that as a regretful person. "Oh, my God, we ended up giving people who wanted to destroy things space to do that as well." She walked that back and said she really didn't mean it. Now we hear from a firsthand witness quote, "The mayor says, 'Let 'em loot. It's only property,'" and the Maryland sheriff, a Maryland sheriff has confirmed the stand-down orders were given.

RUSH: Here's Mike Lewis, who was on Hannity last night. He's the Wicomico County, Maryland, sheriff. Hannity asked him about the police response to the riots. "A number of high-profile law enforcement people in Baltimore have all confirmed that a stand-down order was given on Monday by the mayor herself with the comment, even if there's looting on the ground, 'It's only property.' Have you heard that?"

LEWIS: We got there, I was told by a number of senior officers -- commanding officers who were delegated authority throughout the city -- that we had orders to stand down, that orders had been given to stand down. And there were many, many Baltimore city police officers. They were clearly, clearly worn out, and they were embarrassed. They apologized to us many times for having to come to Baltimore City. They said, 'We're embarrassed that our mayor told us to stand down. This is ridiculous." I heard people actually saying, "I'm done. I'm through." My heart broke for these guys and girls. All I could hear was "retreat" or "Stand down. Stand down." This was over the radio, I heard it with my own ears, and I couldn't understand for the life of me what was going on.

RUSH: Yeah. Well, now, everybody knows. He heard it. He heard the order. "Stand down. Stand down. Retreat. Stand down." While the rioting was going. We know this happened.

Democratic hard left control of Baltimore is the main cause of the riots and racial division in spite that all the power is in the hand of Black democrats for several generations.

Baltimore Mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, ordered the police: “LET THEM LOOT. IT’ S ONLY PROPERTY”. We saw hell explode after the Black democratic mayor gave the thugs carte blanche to destroy the city.

Baltimore needs a new mayor with courage and integrity, Toya Graham, the mother that took his son from the mob.

“The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.p.” Dem. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (In office January 3, 1977 – January 3, 2001)

“The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life. Dem. senator Daniel Moynihan

Facts are irrelevant for Anarchists, Communists, professionals agitators and “community organizers” followers of Marxist Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” strategy.

Obama is the most racist and divisive president in our history.

David Horowitz' excellent recently published pamphlet "Barack Obama's Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model" offers keen insights into Alinsky and what it might mean when Alinsky followers are in positions of power. The conclusions he reaches are not pleasant but are borne out by current events, public utterances of the president, his history, and the work of Alinsky himself.

What we are seeing is the most radical President in our country’s history who is unable to govern because governing is not his purpose. The Alinskyite, ever the destroyer of institutions, cannot govern because governments and societies are built upon institutions.

According to the FBI in 2011, 193 blacks were killed by whites, 448 White killed by Blacks while 2,447 blacks were killed by blacks. That is 2.3 times more whites killed by blacks than the other way around despite the fact that there’s six times as many whites in this country.

Do Black lives really matter? How many of the parents of Blacks murdered by Blacks received a call of Obama or send his personal representative to the funeral?

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke: Obama ‘Quietly Enjoying’ Unrest in Baltimore

therightpundit ^ | 4/29/15

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3284576/posts

Not holding back one bit. Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke says O is “quietly enjoying” what’s going on in Baltimore because he’s a ‘promoter of division’ and has ‘benefitted politically’ from ‘dividing’ people.

Sheriff Clarke points out all the times President Obama has pitted one group of Americans against another. He also questions why Obama didn’t come out and speak about the Baltimore riots earlier. He was interviewed here on the Mark Levin Show

Clarke: Change In Baltimore Should Start With “Failed Liberal Democrat Policies”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3284755/posts

Breitbart.com ^ | April 30,2015 | Ian Hanchett

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) blasted “failed liberal government policies” for miring people in cities like Baltimore in “generational poverty” and argued that change in Baltimore “needs to start in the politics, the failed liberal Democrat policies” on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.

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