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.
Well, he must have one, but perhaps he was too busy elsewhere ‘getting paid’ in his own hoodie and identity concealing clothes to notice his baby mama and his kid.
If mom was so influential what was her kid doing out there in the first place?
Again, where is his father?
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I gave you a reasonable reply to your first comment. With what little I know about you and the woman in the video, I have more respect for her. You sound a little too perfect for me.
Yipes!
That’s great. will have to watch the vid later.
lol. Amazing how often the press doesn’t care if their reports are wrong.
A mothers’ love. Bless her!
“Would have been better if it had been the father that administrated the beatdown.”
Yeahhh....a good physical pummeling will teach em. /s
Yeah, but it was only two until the video came out......
.... Amazing how often the press doesn’t care if their reports are wrong.....
I saw this throughout the night......even those reporters right on site were getting it wrong.....then reading articles today where they borrow from one news report, and add a few lines of their own to make the story appear as they want, becomes obvious they’ve veered far from the actual story.
Additionally interesting is how the news “Wants” or is told to present this as being about the death of Freddi Gray......a lifetime drug dealer and street thug with a rap sheet a mile long full of arrests and charges.....but they aren’t reporting that side of his looser life. Even the mom knows his life was always in the gutter.
So saying this was the mother without researching further....well...par for the course.
Good for her! She brought him into this world and if he doesn’t straigten up, she’s gonna take him out!
GOOD GRIEF..........I looked at that mother and saw MOM....she would have done exactly the same thing and my butt would have been grounded until I was 60 years old....
Can you imagine this nitwits reputation among his peers.....Yo’ mama whupped yo’ butt on T.V. Mr tough guy...maybe your title as head of the crips or bloods is in jeopardy!!!!!!naughty, naughty, naughty....and you probably stole Coca-Cola from the liquor stores.....
NOT A CHANCE....EVER...There is only one thing in the world that black thugs fear and that is a black mama....disaster on two legs to them!!!!
It makes no difference at all...she was a black mama and to these thugs that is authority at its apex....anybody's mama... CW
you were much like my mom......but in NO INSTANCE WHATSOEVER would I have raised my hand to her....ever....
On a normal day they would probably charge her with assault on a minor or child abuse or something.
Am thinking you are right...they do rule.
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