Posted on 04/28/2015 5:41:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
After a week of protests and the funeral of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who recently died in police custody of serious injuries, rioters took to the streets of Baltimore late Monday afternoon and rampaged through the city until the early hours of the morning burning buildings, cars, looting local stores, attacking police and reporters. Fifteen police officers were injured and the hoses being use by firefighters to put out an inferno at a CVS were cut.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake made several statements last night and announced a curfew...that starts tonight. Governor Larry Hogan called in the National Guard to restore order, but mostly rioters went home without arrests and the police commissioner is admitting cops were overwhelmed and overrun.
"Yes, we planned for it. That wasn't the issue," Batts told reporters late Monday. "We just had too many people out there [for us] to overcome the numbers we had." The commissioner added that the rioters had pulled his officers to "opposite ends of the city" and had "outnumbered us and outflanked us."
"These acts of violence and destruction of property cannot and will not be tolerated," Hogan said at a late-night press conference. The governor also said he was deploying 500 state troopers and had asked for 5,000 officers from neighboring states to deal with the violence.
What happened in Baltimore is being called a race riot, despite the fact that the majority of the police officers and government officials working in the city are African-American.
Yesterday, Baltimore Police released a memo about violent gangs the Crips, Bloods and Black Guerrilla family joining forces to kill cops.
Local residents and business owners are describing the situation as "heartbreaking" and are cleaning up their community this morning.
This is Jason Butler. He showed up this morning to clean up a devastated neighborhood #BaltimoreRiots pic.twitter.com/A6jFFDLphZ— Megan Pringle (@MeganWBAL) April 28, 2015
Newly minted Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who was sworn in last Friday, has sent DOJ officials to Baltimore to investigate.
In all fairness, humanity has been oppressing humanity from its inception.
Uh oh... I could easily see ‘toilet paper man’ rising to the status of ‘looter guy’ from the chocolate city.
I would like to be able to give you an encouraging answer, but from what I have seen, they are not.
Will you please add me to your list?
Are you questioning the content of his character, hater?
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I don’t believe there is any content. He appears to me as being intellectually and morally void.
I wonder what would happen if these thugs tried this in a city located in a state that has a “Conceal and Carry” law. For instance; would these thugs get away with rioting and looting like this in say............ Abilene, Texas? I’m thinking it would not be the PO-LEECE they need to worry about, but, it would be the good, ol’ Texas boys who have no problem capping someone in the ass with a 9mm.
Look for both SWAT and the NG to do some shooting to end the riots.
Yep! And if you think that it is bad now, wait ten years from now. These will be looked back upon as the “good ole years”. One does not fight evil by hiding from it or ignoring it. One does not attempt to appease a hostile [to you] culture by trying to blend in with it, nor by being ashamed of and hating who you are.
I believe he will be memorialized before the week is out!
Not really. Obama and company will sit on the sidelines bigtime.
It's OK and it's all sanctioned by the current administration. V
Violence is justified because of years of “White Repression” and hey, who cares if they destroy property, it's kind of like compensation for 200 years slavery!
It all fits into the logic of the Liberal Left and Hate America camp. They KEY WORD is “JUSTICE”.
The Paleostinians say the say the same thing about Israel, in their war against the Jews, demanding a “FREE PALESTINE” or Justice, which means killing Israel.
Same holds true in Baltimore. Let ‘em burn off some youthful steam after all the poor little diddums are frustrated and angry at all the inequality, so let ‘em burn the city down, it's OK...
The whites in the suburbs are cleaning their rifles and pistols in case the rioters start getting close. I know, because I lived in a suburb of Detroit during their 1967 riots.
I see shoot to kill happening.
But that’s working so well in Venezuela, isn’t it?
I dont know about lynch or Boehner..but Obie might accept the invitation.
All this is going to do is speed up online stores.
Just another day in a “Liberal Paradise”.
how could the cops let it get to the point that their vehicles could get trashed?
What a disgusting comment.
They were following orders. The city taxpayers will buy them new cars.
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