Have You Seen What's Happening in Ferguson and Baltimore?

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | May 21, 2015 | Rush Limbaugh

[Kaslin]

RUSH: Look at this. "Michael Brown Memorial to be Replaced With Plaque." This is the Gentle Giant in Ferguson, Missouri. They had a memorial there for the guy. Look, look, wait, now. We've gotta be very, very tiptoe on this one.

The Gentle Giant, who robbed a convenience store for Swisher Sweets 'cause he wanted to roll some blunts, while walking down the middle of the street, eagerly thinking about his upcoming college days, was gunned down in cold blood with his hands up running away while the cop shot him in the back. I know that's not how it happened, but you'll be hell-bent trying to convince anybody else of that.

I know that's the exact opposite of what happened, but you can't tell the people of Ferguson that, and you can't tell the people of Baltimore that, and you can't tell that state's attorney in Baltimore. You can't tell Obama that. You can't tell George Zimmerman that. You can't tell Trayvon Martin that. He wouldn't hear you if he did. You can't tell anybody what really happened there. You gotta go with the flow of this idiot, stupid, false narrative in order to build a memorial. A memorial! For what? It's why I say I gotta be very careful here.

"The memorial to Michael Brown on Canfield Drive has been removed." It was vandalized, if I recall. Whatever the original memorial was, it was vandalized, so they're doing a new one. The original memorial has been removed and it'll be replaced now by a plaque, according to the mayor, James Knowles III and the Michael Brown Sr., the father of the Gentle Giant. They made a joint announcement out there about this new memorial, and all of this courtesy of the city of Ferguson, Missouri, which was nearly destroyed by the grieving supporters of the Gentle Giant.

It's interesting, too, because the plaque -- are you ready for this? -- the plaque shows the Gentle Giant in his high school graduation cap, since he is best known for being a scholar. He's a scholar. He's walking down the street, the middle of the street, Saturday afternoon, late summer, thinking about his first days as a college man when everything went south.

"Flanked by newly elected Ferguson City Council members Wesley Bell and Ella Jones, Knowles and Brown said the plaque will be part of a new permanent memorial in the area." The looted and burned down stores are not enough of a memorial. We have to erect a plaque of the Gentle Giant in his high school graduation cap.

And, by the way, have you read what's going on in Baltimore? No, I can tell you now you have no idea what's going on in Baltimore. You think probably that peace has come to Baltimore 'cause cops are off the streets now. They charged those six cops with the murder of Freddie Gray. The murder rate and the shooting rate is skyrocketing throughout Baltimore, and nobody's doing anything about it because the cops can't be found. And now the mayor and others in the city are accusing the cops of purposely standing down because of what happened to the six cop being charged. (interruption) Can't what? (interruption) What do you mean, it can't be? It is.

The cops have adopted the Obama stance, and that is restraint. And in Baltimore that means you can't see 'em. And that's supposed to make it no crime. See, in the Obama world and the Democrat Party world, the presence of cops equals violence, because the cops are intimidating, and the cops are provocative, and the cops are the cops. They cause unrest and they cause people to engage in violence because they're so biased and extremist and racist. So the Obama theory is the cops' presence causes violence. Pulling the cops back to the point where you can't see them, that will give you a peaceful community. Of course, it's just the exact opposite, and anybody with a scintilla of common sense knows it.

But the cops have pulled back and now some are questioning the police commissioner. "Hey, did you withdraw your cops on purpose? Are you trying to have violence happen and not do anything about it as a way of getting back at the city because your six cops were charged?" And the commissioner (paraphrasing), "No, no, no, no, no, we're doing nothing like that at all, no, no, no." But the Department of Justice has taken over the town, the Department of Justice has taken over the police department, they're on the way to, and it is the truth. They believe the cops are the problem and so the cops are.

"It’s been weeks since the protests and rioting in Baltimore tied to the death in police custody of Freddie Gray, but the city is plagued by increased violence." No! Say it isn't so! How can this be? "More than 40 shootings have been reported in Baltimore in that time, and the police department is investigating dozens of homicides." That would be minimum 24, for those of you in Rio Linda. "Between April 25 and May 14 there were been 25 killings, just shy of Baltimore’s deadliest month last year: 26 killings in January 2014."

And not one of these 25 killings is there a police officer accused. So it is citizen-on-citizen crime taking place in Baltimore, after the state's attorney went out and supposedly satisfied all these demands. Yes, the town was in a state of unrest and disorder over the untimely, unfortunate death of a stand-up guy like Freddie Gray while in police custody. So the state's attorney and the mayor went out there and did everything they could to bring all of that rioting and shooting and civil unrest to a screeching halt by charging the six cops. This was supposed to mollify the population. Since that happened, 40 shootings, dozens of homicides, not one cop has been accused in any of the homicides.

Over the weekend, that record number of 26 homicides in January 2014, "that mark was eclipsed, as there were several more shootings. ... Baltimore was up to 35 homicides in the last month by the Baltimore Sun’s count, blowing past the top month last year. As of Monday morning, the count had risen once again: three shootings occurred overnight and two people were killed in broad daylight on Sunday," after the mayor fixes it, after the state's attorney takes action to punish the cops, which is supposed to mollify the crowd and make sure this doesn't happen anymore.

There hasn't been any TV on this. I know there's been some reporting on it. All I have is Newsweek. There hasn't been any TV on this. There hasn't been any exposure of this. There hasn't been anybody, social scientist, political analyst, what have you, none of them have gone back to Baltimore since the six cops were charged. None of 'em have gone back to report on the aftermath of the brilliant decision by the state's attorney, Marilyn Mosby. And, of course, they won't go back because to go back is to expose the fraud that is liberalism. And we can't have that.

So, meanwhile, Baltimore is just a mess. It continues to be a mess, and the so-called remedial action that has been taken to get even with the perpetrators of the real crime in that town, the cops, doesn't seem to have quelled any of the thirst for violence. It's just not a beautiful thing. (interruption) Well, no, no, no. They got plenty of space to destroy stuff. The cops, you can't find 'em. This is the point. The cops are now practicing Obama DOJ restraint. Look, I'm not making this up. Folks, I know it sounds like satire. (interruption) Who's lives matter? Black lives matter. Black lives matter.

I'm just telling you, the cops have always been seen as the provocative agents. If you listen to the left, it is the cops and how they act and even just their presence which causes unrest in American cities, and so the cops have heard the complaints and they've withdrawn. The cops are not there. They show up after the fact, but they're not anywhere around before any of this stuff happens. They do not have a presence. I mean, they go to work, don't misunderstand. They're in there, doughnuts and all that, but they're not on the street being seen, this kind of stuff. By design.

Folks, I'm not making it up. Barack Obama, every Democrat in this country thinks that it's the cops that are responsible for violence just by wearing the uniform and showing up. So the cops, in response, okay, okay, we hear you, they're backing off. In Baltimore, it's no different than any other liberal city, except this is not being reported on.

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RUSH: By the way, "The Wall Street Journal reported that in the three weeks after Mr. Gray's death on 19 April, Baltimore police made 1,453 arrests..." That again: "[I]n the three weeks after Mr. Gray's death ... 1,453 arrests a decrease of more than 40% from the same time in 2014 and 2013." Still, almost 1500 arrests in the three weeks after the death of Mr. Freddie Gray.

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[dhs12345]

You reap what you sow.

But what the hey, the all now have new TVs. Just hope that they don’t get mugged when someone else tries to steal it.

[ansel12]

That plaque is one of the weirdest things ever.

A guy on foot is fleeing/leaving the scene of a strong arm robbery, who then only blocks away tries to climb through the window of a police car to get at the cop inside, is killed in the course of that second attack, and the city puts up a plaque to his beloved memory.

Beam me up Scotty.

[manc]

Rush is right.
The left have always blamed the cops and now they are seeing cops pulling away and who the left does not know who to blame

[dware]

Let Fergimore burn. Screw em all. Bastions of leftist thuggery and scum anyhow. Somehow, I’m finding it hard to feel sorry for the cities.

[dp0622]

Let them build an army of liberal university teachers to patrol the streets. and feminists. and the gender confused.

[TBP]

The left will not let go of its mythology.

[dragnet2]

The left have always blamed the cops and now they are seeing cops pulling away and who the left does not know who to blame

They'll pull away from the high crime areas and set up in low crime white areas.

Very slick.

[GOPJ]

That plaque is one of the weirdest things ever. A guy on foot is fleeing/leaving the scene of a strong arm robbery,

who then only blocks away tries to climb through the window of a police car to get at the cop inside,

is killed in the course of that second attack, and the city puts up a plaque to his beloved memory.

Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah! It's the weirdest alright...

[Talisker]

The whole Ferguson police force should quit in protest of this damn plaque. It’s an absolute insult and the cops should say so by leaving, transferring to other cities, whatever. This is nuts.

[Fiddlstix]

BINGO!!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[familyop]

"Have You Seen What's Happening in Ferguson and Baltimore?"

Trial runs for the suburbs after the austerity layoffs ahead.

[AlanGreenSpam]

The Korean merchants who lost their businesses and everything they worked for in the looting/burning should SUE the Mayor of Blackimore for everything they can.

There was no police protection. The Mayor has blood on her hands for issuing a stand down order and verbally encouraging the thugs to be destructive.

[driftless2]

Where I live I see a county cop go down the street maybe once a month...if that. I know many of my neighbors, like me, have guns in our homes. What stops me and my neighbors from going crazy and just start shooting each other over trivial infractions? The fact that we don't think shooting each other is a good way to solve disputes for one thing.

So why do so many residents of big cities "solve" their problems by shooting their neighbors? Can't quite figure it out. When there are no cops around, the amounts of shootings and other types of violence seems to increase in the big cities. Someone explain that to me.

[driftless2]

"let them build an army of...."

That's actually a very good idea. Those specific types of people should be forced to do that.

[FreeReign]

Put a policeman’s life in jeopardy and get a plaque.

[semaj]

Your #12

That's too funny in a sad, weird kind of way. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[Lexinom]

mark

[lentulusgracchus]

That's actually a very good idea. Those specific types of people should be forced to do that.

Disagree. Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara and Fidel Castro and Patrice Lumumba were all "those specific types of people". Came up comfortable, middle-class, educated ..... and ruthless, nasty, and hateful.

No, you don't want Lefties wielding the police power ... which is what Ferguson and Baltimore have been all about, a federally-forced cramdown on a couple of local PD's, to force them to become Red Cops in Obama's new Red Army that he needs to kill all those cracka people Bammy hates so badly, he and his buds Ayers and Van Jones and Valerie Jarrett and all the rest of the Left trash he hangs with.