Posted on 04/29/2015 3:52:22 PM PDT by markomalley
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake denies a report by Fox News that she gave a stand down order to her city’s police department on the days riots broke out over the death of Freddie Gray.
Rawlings-Blake defended her actions — as well as Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s decision to not be overly “aggressive” towards rioters — on Saturday and Monday as not a stand down but an appropriate response for the time.
“The situation on the ground when you are engaged in an incident is a lot different than what you can see or experience on television. Officers are doing an amazing job. I don’t want to jinx myself and say we’ve had no loss of life. We’ve had some injuries with our officers and they are on the mend,” she said.
Rawlings-Blake explained, “I think they could’ve gone two ways. We could have calmed it down aggressively and been accused of using accessible force–the same thing the communities are upset about now or we can do what we did and use a very serious but measured approach and once we had the appropriate resources in place to respond appropriately, we went in.”
The Baltimore Democrat claimed the response was not a stand down saying, “No. It’s not holding back. It’s responding appropriately. You don’t have all of your equipment in play because things are changing in real time. You can’t respond. You can’t react. If you arrest someone and the wagons aren’t there, what are you gonna do with them?”
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani disagrees with the tactic used by Rawlings-Blake, telling the hosts on “Fox and Friends” Wednesday that what Maryland officials, Missouri officials and New York officials did during riots is apply a now-discredited policing theory.
Referencing one particular riot from a policing report discrediting the “cooling off period” for rioters, Giuliani said, “The mayor at the time basically allowed the people to riot at the time–to get the steam–to get it out. And the police backed off. Until finally so upset, because the cops were being beaten up so bad, that Chief Anemone had to come in, under Ray Kelly who had been a deputy, and they had to end the riot. That was after three days of people getting pounded and beaten.”
Giuliani explained, “So in the report, Gentilly writes, ‘you shouldn’t allow a cooling off period. You should arrest the first person who throws a rock. You should arrest the first person who breaks a window. You should arrest the first person who tries to burn something. Stop it immediately when it’s three people not when it’s 1000. There’s no such thing as a cooling off period. A beginning riot gets hotter. It doesn’t get cooler.”
However, Congressional Black Caucus members appear to like the response from the Baltimore City Police, believing that “much can be learned from managing civil unrest by the way this was handled.”
LOL. Brilliant Sir, well played.
I heard last night Katherine Herridge last night an anonymous web site that tracked the same web site accounts were used to instigate riots in Ferguson and Baltimore.
It sounds like community activist.
Obama is a community activist. I wonder if the connection can be made.
Poster at 29 says she said “excessive”.
Thanks-—good to know.
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She is Obama with a straightened hairstyle.
Obama has the Border Patrol here in AZ using bean bags for bullets and our soldiers overseas were instructed only to shoot after a long list of acceptable aggressions were enacted on them first.
Basically, Dems are pacifists and nihilistic.
Read this as “no record of me using the words ‘stand down’ exist”
White lives and businesses don’t matter when balanced against rioters who vote uniformly Democrat.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security bought 704 million rounds of ammunition for use on American soil. Not one round was used during this particular civil uprising. What’s that tell you about who the 704 million rounds are meant for?
Reeses, I wrote a little short story that illustrated what I thought all that ammunition was for. The prospects are frightening.
And, I remember a few years ago, I would go to my local Walmart, all times during the day and night, even at dawn when they stocked the aisle, and no 22 ammo. Could have gone plinking with my neighbor at our secret BLM spot, but almost glad I didn’t; have to conserve, because you never know.
Baltimore needs as mayor, Toya Graham,the mother that took his son from the mob.
Facts are irrelevant for Anarchists, Communists, professionals agitators and "community organizers" followers of Marxist Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" strategy.
According to the FBI in 2011, 193 blacks were killed by whites, 448 White killed by Blacks while 2,447 blacks were killed by blacks. That is 2.3 times more whites killed by blacks than the other way around despite the fact that there’s six times as many whites in this country.
Do Black lives really matter? How many of the parents of Blacks murdered by Blacks received a call of Obama or send his personal representative to the funeral?
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke: Obama ‘Quietly Enjoying’ Unrest in Baltimore
therightpundit ^ | 4/29/15
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3284576/posts
Not holding back one bit. Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke says O is “quietly enjoying” what’s going on in Baltimore because he’s a ‘promoter of division’ and has ‘benefitted politically’ from ‘dividing’ people.
Sheriff Clarke points out all the times President Obama has pitted one group of Americans against another. He also questions why Obama didn’t come out and speak about the Baltimore riots earlier. He was interviewed here on the Mark Levin Show
Clarke: Change In Baltimore Should Start With "Failed Liberal Democrat Policies"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3284755/posts
Breitbart.com ^ | April 30,2015 | Ian Hanchett
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) blasted “failed liberal government policies” for miring people in cities like Baltimore in “generational poverty” and argued that change in Baltimore “needs to start in the politics, the failed liberal Democrat policies” on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.
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