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Baltimore mayor fires police chief after sharp rise in violence
NY Post ^ | 7/8/15 | Ap

Posted on 07/08/2015 1:54:36 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda

Baltimore mayor fires police chief after sharp rise in violence

By Associated Press

BALTIMORE — Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Wednesday that she has fired Police Commissioner Anthony Batts, 2½ months after riots broke out in the city following the death of a man who was injured in police custody. Rawlings-Blake announced her decision in a three-paragraph news release that also noted she has named Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Davis as interim commissioner. The mayor scheduled a news conference with Davis for later Wednesday afternoon. Rawlings did not give a reason, but the move comes amid a spike in the city’s homicide rate.

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KEYWORDS: anthonybatts; baltimore; rawlingsblake; thugculture; thugocracy; thugs
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I read elsewhere that the ex-commissioner came to Baltimore from Oakland, where he left under a cloud of accusations that he was too weak in dealing with the riots in Oakland.

The irony, of course, is that the Baltimore mayor who fired him is the one with such an incredibly weak response to the Baltimore riots.


21 posted on 07/08/2015 2:37:51 PM PDT by sparklite2
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

MD B’more hon ping....


22 posted on 07/08/2015 2:42:43 PM PDT by momtothree
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To: momtothree
maryland is THE Freak state. It is truly hopeless there. Escape while you can.
23 posted on 07/08/2015 2:44:54 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

This from the mayor who TOLD the police to stand down???


24 posted on 07/08/2015 2:45:51 PM PDT by SendShaqtoIraq
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To: Skooz

Just typical of someone who didn’t learn anything useful despite being supposedly educated-I doubt she realizes that the modern version of barbarians are within the gates of the city, either...


25 posted on 07/08/2015 2:48:56 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: SendShaqtoIraq

Yep can’t blame the police chief, he should Sue, he has an easy case here.


26 posted on 07/08/2015 2:49:16 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

In related news, Zimbabwe is taking the lead in conservation of Pangolins.

https://www.newsday.co.zw/2015/07/08/zimbabwe-leading-in-conservation-of-pangolins/


27 posted on 07/08/2015 2:49:37 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
So she fires the Chief after the findings of the FOP report, which stated basically officers weren't allowed to do their jobs...and that those orders came from the top...right?

Yep...she needs to fire herself.

...but she's got an Obama superiority complex, no blame, no responsibility.

28 posted on 07/08/2015 2:50:21 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo
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To: Rome2000

Like most African countries, Baltimore needs more Pangolins.

29 posted on 07/08/2015 2:52:12 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: Rome2000

Wow! Now THAT is one cool looking animal. Pangolin would also make a great name for a tank.


30 posted on 07/08/2015 2:59:55 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Rome2000
Looks like a Armadillo's great grandpa
31 posted on 07/08/2015 3:15:42 PM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: Robe; 21twelve

It looks smarter than the Mayor of ZimBaltimore.

Much larger IQ.


32 posted on 07/08/2015 3:29:32 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Batts was formerly the chief of police for the Californian cities of Oakland and Long Beach. Batts worked in the Long Beach Police Department for 27 years, rising to Chief of Police in 2002.

Under Batts, homicides decreased 45% and overall crime decreased 13% in Long Beach. Batts has said that he was motivated to seek the Oakland Chief of Police job by the aftermath of the killing of four Oakland police officers in March, 2009. On October 11, 2011, Chief Batts announced that he was resigning from the Oakland Police Department in November. In a letter to Oakland city workers, he stated "It is with great regret that I tender this official notice of my intent to resign as chief of police for the city of Oakland." Batts became the police commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department on September 27, 2012.

On July 8th, 2015 Batts was fired from the Baltimore Police Department in the aftermath of the death of Freddie Gray in police custody.[7] Source: Wikipedia

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Batts may decide to fight back.

33 posted on 07/08/2015 3:38:12 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Skooz

I’ll bet she cannot find Rome on a map.”

Surely she can - it’s in Georgia!


34 posted on 07/08/2015 5:35:02 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Paladin2

And take the prosecutor with her. If she was smart she would leave the country. The lawsuits those officers have against her and the City of Baltimore will leave her spinning.

Over a hundred officers injured because of this effing nonsense.


35 posted on 07/08/2015 6:16:10 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

More black on black crime


36 posted on 07/08/2015 11:25:20 PM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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