.rumor has it that the Guard had been...... tasked with guarding the New Brewery In town during the final stages of its construction and were therefore unavailable to deploy elsewhere...
Posted on 04/29/2015 6:33:17 AM PDT by SleeperCatcher
Deploying National Guard troops in Baltimore City was bound to happen, but when it did the same question that surfaced months ago, hundreds of miles away in Ferguson, Missouri, surfaced there: Why did it take so long?
According to various reports, rioting and looting that began over the weekend and spilled over into early Tuesday morning, ostensibly in the name of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African-American man who died April 12 in police custody under circumstances that remain unclear, finally prompted embattled Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake – she of “give them space to destroy” fame – to request National Guard assistance, help that Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan was anticipating.
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Sorry to nitpick, but they’re not liberals! We should be so lucky! They are leftists, to say the least!
Well said! : )
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