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VIDEO: Mom Caught Hitting Son Taking Part in Baltimore Riots
CBS DC ^ | April 28, 2015 7:45 AM | Staff

Posted on 04/28/2015 6:21:24 AM PDT by Red Badger

One Baltimore mother was caught on video dragging out her son who was taking part in the Baltimore riots.

The unnamed mother was shown on television smacking her son — who was dressed all in black — for taking part in the riots against police and businesses Monday afternoon and dragging him away.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts even acknowledged the mother’s actions during a press conference early Tuesday morning.

“And if you saw in one scene, you had one a mother who grabbed their child who had a hood on his head and she started smacking him on the head because she was so embarrassed. I wish I had more parents who took charge of their kids tonight,” Batts said.

National Guard troops fanned out through the city, shield-bearing police officers blocked the streets and firefighters doused still-simmering blazes early Tuesday as a growing area of Baltimore shuddered from riots following the funeral of a black man who died in police custody.

The violence that started in West Baltimore on Monday afternoon — within a mile of where Freddie Gray was arrested and placed into a police van earlier this month — had by midnight spread to East Baltimore and neighborhoods close to downtown and near the baseball stadium.

It was one of the most volatile outbreaks of violence prompted by a police-involved death since the days of protests that followed the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black man who was shot and killed during a confrontation with a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer.

At least 15 officers were hurt, including six who remained hospitalized late Monday, police said. Two dozen people were arrested.

State and local authorities pledged to restore order and calm to Baltimore, but quickly found themselves responding to questions about whether their initial responses had been adequate.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was asked why she waited hours to ask the governor to declare a state of emergency, while the governor himself hinted she should have come to him earlier.

“We were all in the command center in the second floor of the State House in constant communication, and we were trying to get in touch with the mayor for quite some time,” Gov. Larry Hogan told a Monday evening news conference. “She finally made that call, and we immediately took action.”

Asked if the mayor should have called for help sooner, however, Hogan replied that he didn’t want to question what Baltimore officials were doing: “They’re all under tremendous stress. We’re all on one team.”

Rawlings-Blake said officials believed they had gotten the unrest that had erupted over the weekend under control “and I think it would have been inappropriate to bring in the National Guard when we had it under control.”

But later on, Batts made it clear events had become unmanageable. “They just outnumbered us and outflanked us,” Batts said. “We needed to have more resources out there.”

Batts said authorities had had a “very trying and disappointing day.”

Police certainly had their work cut out for them: The rioters set police cars and buildings on fire in several neighborhoods, looted a mall and liquor stores and threw rocks at police with riot gear who responded occasionally with pepper spray.

“I understand anger, but what we’re seeing isn’t anger,” Rawlings-Blake said. “It’s disruption of a community. The same community they say they care about, they’re destroying. You can’t have it both ways.”

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, in her first day on the job, said she would send Justice Department officials to the city in coming days. A weeklong, daily curfew was imposed beginning Tuesday from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., the mayor said, and Baltimore public schools announced they would be closed Tuesday.

Maj. Gen. Linda Singh, adjutant general of the Maryland National Guard, said up to 5,000 troops would be available for Baltimore’s streets.

“We are going to be out in massive force, and that just means basically that we are going to be patrolling the streets and out to ensure that we are protecting property,” Singh said at a news conference Monday night.

Singh said they will be acting at the direction of Baltimore police.

Col. William Pallozzi, the superintendent of the state police, said a request for up to 500 additional law enforcement personnel in Maryland had been sent. Pallozzi added that the state is putting out a request for up to 5,000 more law enforcement personnel from around the mid-Atlantic region.

Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings and about 200 others, including ministers, tried unsuccessfully to quell the violence at one point Monday night, marching arm-in-arm through a neighborhood littered with broken glass, flattened aluminum cans and other debris. As they got close to a line of police officers, the marchers went down on their knees. They then rose to their feet and walked until they were face-to-face with the police officers in a tight formation and wearing riot gear.

But the violence continued, with looters later setting a liquor store on fire and throwing cinder blocks at fire trucks as firefighters labored to put out the blazes.

Monday’s riot was the latest flare-up over the death of Gray and came amid a national debate over police use of force following the high-profile deaths of several black men in encounters with police — from the Brown death in Ferguson to the deaths of Eric Garner in New York and Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Gray was black. Police have declined to specify the races of the six officers involved in his arrest, all of whom have been suspended with pay while they are under investigation.

While they are angry about what happened to Gray, his family said riots are not the answer.

“I think the violence is wrong,” Gray’s twin sister, Fredericka Gray, said late Monday. “I don’t like it at all.”

The attorney for Gray’s family, Billy Murphy, said the family had hoped to organize a peace march later in the week.

Hours before the riots began Monday, mourners filled the 2,500-capacity New Shiloh Baptist church to attend Freddie Gray’s funeral.

Gray was arrested on April 12 after making eye contact with officers and then running away, police said. He was held down, handcuffed and loaded into a van without a seat belt. Leg cuffs were put on him when he became irate inside.

He asked for medical help several times even before being put in the van, but paramedics were not called until after a 30-minute ride. Police have acknowledged he should have received medical attention on the spot where he was arrested, but they have not said how he suffered a serious spine injury. He died April 19.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; freddiegray; mother; riot
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1 posted on 04/28/2015 6:21:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

This mom is a national hero

I hope this goes viral


2 posted on 04/28/2015 6:22:58 AM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz - to defeat HilLIARy/Warren)
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To: Red Badger

3 posted on 04/28/2015 6:23:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

What’s up with ISIS/Ninja outfit?


4 posted on 04/28/2015 6:24:00 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Mr. K

Perhaps, or more like she will be targeted..........


5 posted on 04/28/2015 6:24:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

The DOJ announced today that they will be starting an investigation into child abuse charges, as well as, bad hair weaves.


6 posted on 04/28/2015 6:24:24 AM PDT by Bucky14 (And I would have gotten away with it too, if not for you meddling kids!)
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To: Enlightened1

You haveta ask?...............


7 posted on 04/28/2015 6:24:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

No, if anybody gets arrested, it’ll be moms for abusing her saintly little choir boy. If the lyin’ king only had some sons.............


8 posted on 04/28/2015 6:25:56 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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Uh oh..... pray for that mom; Childrens’ Protective Services will come after her.


9 posted on 04/28/2015 6:28:36 AM PDT by Din Maker (Anyone considering Gov. Susana Martinez of NM for VP in 2016?)
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To: Mr. K

SHE gets it


10 posted on 04/28/2015 6:28:57 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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Video... direct link


11 posted on 04/28/2015 6:30:09 AM PDT by deport
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To: Red Badger

Why feed CBS clicks? Here is the YouTube link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRlmCf1Kj2o


12 posted on 04/28/2015 6:30:32 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Red Badger

She and the kid are both going to have to move. Dude gets taken out by his MOM in the middle of a riot, despite wearing his best super-ISIS ninja warrior outfit? That kid is screwed. Some things you never live down, especially after they’ve gone viral on the internet.


13 posted on 04/28/2015 6:30:52 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: deport

You’re right. Didn’t see your link. Why should we here be forced to go see some gypped cut from a three letter Media web page. I HATE those sites, you click anywhere and it brings up all kind of crap. ALWAYS look to somewhere else to find the direct contact.


14 posted on 04/28/2015 6:32:25 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: rktman

She can expect CPS at her door.


15 posted on 04/28/2015 6:32:58 AM PDT by GeronL (Clearly Cruz 2016)
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To: Red Badger

Roger Goodell suspends mom for 10 games.


16 posted on 04/28/2015 6:36:42 AM PDT by AT7Saluki (No cejar, no ceder)
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To: ameribbean expat

But do not even the rioters RESPECT their MOMS?


17 posted on 04/28/2015 6:37:52 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Red Badger

I can see CPS visiting this “abusive” mom, sometime in the near future!

I really wish a /sarc tag was needed, but unfortunately, I can actually see some left-wing, liberal nut-job going after her for “slapping” this “child”!!!

THIS is why the looting and rioting is even happening, because parents don’t do enough to keep their kids from turning into hoodlums and thugs!!


18 posted on 04/28/2015 6:37:52 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (Public sector unions: A & B agreeing on a contract to screw C!)
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To: Red Badger

Good for her....


19 posted on 04/28/2015 6:37:53 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Gaffer
Here's a posting from yesterday with some 70 comments.....
no link to video without going to website.

WATCH: BALTIMORE RIOTER SLAPPED BY MOM ON NEWS [VIDEO]

20 posted on 04/28/2015 6:37:58 AM PDT by deport
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