Posted on 05/28/2015 8:35:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BALTIMORE Antoinette Perrine has barricaded her front door since her brother was killed three weeks ago on a basketball court near her home in the Harlem Park neighborhood of West Baltimore.
She already has iron bars outside her windows and added metal slabs on the inside to deflect the gunfire.
Im afraid to go outside, said Perrine, 47. Its so bad, people are afraid to let their kids outside. People wake up with shots through their windows. Police used to sit on every corner, on the top of the block. These days? Theyre nowhere.
West Baltimore residents worry theyve been abandoned by the officers they once accused of harassing them. In recent weeks, some neighborhoods have become like the Wild West without a lawman around, residents said.
Before it was over-policing. Now theres no police, said Donnail Dreads Lee, 34, who lives in the Gilmor Homes, the public housing complex where Gray, 25, was arrested.
I havent seen the police since the riots, Lee said. People feel as though they can do things and get away with it. I see people walking with guns almost every single day, because they know the police arent pulling them up like they used to.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimore.cbslocal.com ...
Be careful what you wish for......
Congratulations! You now have the police department you demanded.
“Baltimore Residents Fearful Amid Rash Of Homicides”
Call the police
Hands UP!!
replaced by
Hands OFF!!
Reap what ya sow.. yada yada..
Won’t cut the cops loose, won’t arm themselves, won’t take God seriously.
They’ve deprived themselves of the possible solutions.
Suck it up and die you ungrateful idiots. You voted for the criminals running the city for 40 years, you rioted and/or stood by and cheered it on. Now you want the cops to keep you from being shot or robbed? You’ve all had a hand in creating a 4th world craphole in the image of your supposed African homelands so love it, live it, die by it.
Congratulations! You now have the police department you demanded.
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More like the police department Uncle Barry demanded.
“...Veronica Edmonds, a 26-year-old mother of seven in the Gilmor Homes, said she wishes the police would return and focus on violent crime rather than minor drug offenses.
If they focused more on criminals and left the petty stuff alone, the community would have more respect for police officers, she said....”
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Hmmm....26 year old mother of seven? Living in Public Housing? Likely no father(s) involved in the life of her children? And she wants the cops to leave her drug dealers along?
Can’t understand why Baltimore is becoming a hell-hole.
Call Martin O’Malley
He used to be Mayor, then Governor
Now he wants to be President of the US.
Maybe he can take his rock band into the city
Maybe he can ‘splain to them where $1.8 Billion of Obama stimulus money to Baltimore went
>> West Baltimore residents worry theyve been abandoned by the officers they once accused of harassing them.
I love it when a plan comes together.
Thugs killing thugs and abortions. The libtards have a way of self-limiting themselves.
You built that.
LOL
Baltimore has been a cess pool for decades. The only difference is that now that fact has been made more public.
And the militia and the take on faith that he did too.
When will they get the idea that their White House “benefactor” holds them in utter contempt?
Some slaves or de jure second class citizens of old didn’t live as badly as now, not that we should ever entertain the idea of wanting those systems back, but it seems that a people has sprung out of the frying pan into, not a cool kitchen, but the fire.
“Im afraid to go outside, said Perrine, 47. Its so bad, people are afraid to let their kids outside. People wake up with shots through their windows. Police used to sit on every corner, on the top of the block. These days? Theyre nowhere.
“Before it was over-policing. Now theres no police, said Donnail Dreads Lee, 34, who lives in the Gilmor Homes, the public housing complex where Gray, 25, was arrested.”
You may want to take that up with your idiot Mayor and idiot State’s Attorney, Antoinette and Dreads.
And if you want a po-po presence, don’t go hatin’ on the po-po.
Nah, you didn’t build that, the people playing you for suckers did!
The hate demon has jumped on everyone’s back. And we wonder why there isn’t any peace now.
Like the rest of us have to do who also don't see any police protection - haven't seen three police cars in my neighborhood in the past ten years. They're all down babysitting the black community on my dime - and the dimes of every other race in this city. Just like they do in every city with a large black population.
The black community needs to do some serious soul searching... they're a load on the rest of us.
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