I still don’t get it...the Obama Supporters were mad at the way the cops treat them, so they attacked businesses?
If I’m a business owner in Baltimogadishu, I’m not sure who I should be most pissed off at:
the Obama Supporters— a demographic that has repeatedly played into the hands of its most virulent opponents by reinforcing every single strereotype leveled against them;
the cops— whom the Obama Supporters blamed, but who also sure as hell didn’t respond to emergency calls for assistance by business owners. I don’t want to hear sh*t from the cops about pension funding levels if I’m a business owner caught up in the 2015 Batlimore Performance Art Street Festival.
or the idiot mayor, with her call for “room to destroy”. I actually give her a bit of a pass because she is elected by the Obama Supporters and needs the support of the police union at election time. so the Obama supporters got what they wanted— apparently bulk lots of free paper towels? — and the cops got what they wanted— to not have to get mixed up in the middle of a racially sensitive episode. And the mayor blessed off on it, with a complete disregard for the one group in the whole incident that actually pays taxes.
Actually, a LOT of Progressives are ticked at Gov Hogan.
Who saw what was coming and was smart enough to be completely prepared for it.
Imagine if he wasn’t able to order the Guard in “immediately” after the Baltimore mayor made the request. This would all be hung around his neck, and by extension Republicans’
Which was a desired outcome for all this.