Posted on 05/20/2015 11:48:10 AM PDT by jazusamo
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was at the White House on Wednesday to attend meetings in the aftermath of the violent protests that rocked her city.
Her visit to Washington come as President Obama grapples with how to address tensions between law enforcement and minority communities resulting from a string of police-related deaths of young black men, including Baltimore’s Freddie Gray last month.
Rawlings-Blake (D) told a reporter she was at the executive mansion to attend meetings, but did not say which officials she would meet with.
The president was in Connecticut to speak at the United States Coast Guard Academy’s graduation ceremony.
Earlier this month, Attorney General Loretta Lynch visited Baltimore and met with Rawlings-Blake and other officials after a prosecutor charged six police officers involved in Gray’s death.
Rawlings-Blake praised Obama’s decision to ban the transfer of some military hardware from the federal government to local police departments. She noted her city’s department has not accepted such equipment.
"We've seen what has happened in other jurisdictions that have had an immediate militarized response to public unrest, and we have seen how that has led to days and days of looting and unrest,” she said this week, according to WBAL. “What we saw in Baltimore was much different."
While attending the Preakness Stakes last weekend, the mayor said she was ready for the city to move forward from the unrest surrounding Gray’s death.
"Like me, the rest of the city is ready to exhale … and enjoy what we love about our city,” she said, according to the Baltimore Sun.
When she was contacted by the WH and the WH took over, her public statements, demeanor and tenor immediately changed.
It was obvious at the time the WH began to coordinate for her.
Just use your "the police acted stupidly" line and move on.
Some place the Benghazi rescuers got there "Stand Down" orders!
She gonna wish she has a armored personal carrier when the next pile of pooop hits the fan there.. And it will.
No doubt about it in my view.
I agree, it’s not over by a long shot.
I hope we get a heads up well in advance.
Of course the MSM will go to the ends of the earth to find out what was discussed in those meetings.
If I was Chief of Police in Baltimore right now I would tell my officers: Fellows the only job we have now is to draw the chalk lines around the bodies. We are standing down till we get another mayor and district attorney.
That’s a great graphic. What an incompetent witch she is.
This cracks me up... As the Resident “grapples” with tensions.. How about “seeks to ramp things up across the country.”
Amen. He’s laughing up his sleeve, happy as can be.
Getting marching orders, it has already been reported obama wants to employ the ultimate solution and will shower Baltimore and other purposely racially divided/depressed cities with community organizers; or better stated communist organizers, all on our dime.
Yeah. She gave them "room to destroy".
Schemers
Those intrepid MSM.
They never leave any stone unturned.
Or perhaps she realized she has F***ED UP big time and now wants a job at the White House.
She has said "We've seen what has happened in other jurisdictions that have had an immediate militarized response to public unrest.." CAN YOU SAY 'WACO, TEXAS'????
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