Police attacked, stores ransacked in Baltimore riots

AFP via Malaysia' s MySinchew.com ^ | 4-27-2015 | AFP Fabienne FAUR

[Citizen Zed]

Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson denounced the "epidemic of murders in the country."

"We have become too violent, too full of hate," Jackson told reporters before the service. "We need training, employment, housing, access to health, a reconstruction project. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction."

Tensions have been on the rise in Baltimore since Gray's death, which his family's lawyers say was caused when his spine was mostly severed following his arrest.

Six officers have been suspended with pay pending the outcome of a police investigation that is to be submitted to state prosecutors by Friday.

The US Justice Department, which was already looking into Baltimore's use of force, has also opened its own civil rights probe.

Police confirmed Gray requested medical help and an inhaler after he was detained and acknowledged that he should have received medical attention sooner.

They also revealed that Gray, contrary to policy, was not buckled into his seat in a police van, which made at least three unexplained stops on its way to the city's Western District station, now the scene of nightly protests.

Gray's arrest was caught on video by bystanders, and he can be heard howling in apparent pain as his limp body is dragged into the van.

[UCANSEE2]

Aldi’s got hit.

[Mears]

What’s Aldis?

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[UCANSEE2]

Another liquor store.

[UCANSEE2]

Sorry, I didn’t get the address.

[Chgogal]

I agree, Breakfast at Tiffany's anyone? ; )

[Nailbiter]

training - stay in school get an education

[RitaOK]

Exactly. I think she thinks like a true Marxist Alinskyite.

This crap has to be a tactic or it would be stopped. I think the idea may be to destroy the impoverished neighborhoods and move the fascists and their chaos into better neighborhoods to shop and raise hell. They have no community left, it seems.

[UCANSEE2]

BOLO on Bus #16.

[UCANSEE2]

I misread your question.

Aldi’s is a grocery store chain.

[Mears]

Thanks.

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[Pining_4_TX]

stuffblackpeopledontlike.com

[Pining_4_TX]

Could be just another pleasant evening in Baltimore.

[UCANSEE2]

Beauty Supply Shop.

[Pining_4_TX]

You mean Fergudishu?

[oyez]

The Democratic voters elected all these Democratic leaders.

Somehow Republicans will get the blame.

[Pining_4_TX]

Do you know how many thousands of cops are on the job 24/7 365 days a year compared to how many incidents of misconduct or mistakes?

If I had a magic wand, I would make you a cop for a month.

[dfwgator]

To loosely borrow the line from A Few Good Men, “You want them on that wall, you need them on that wall.”

[Pining_4_TX]

Discount grocery store.

[Mears]

Thanks.

[UCANSEE2]

It seems they are doing B+E’s to get the cops to have to wait for the owners to come secure their property.

That ties up the cops unproductively.