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.
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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 becoming a load on the rest of us.
Militia-fying might not be the worst thing they could be forced into.
And to whose benefit is this — cui bono? — well it sure isn’t helping these minority communities very much, based on the results.
I daresay it is helping political factions who find it handy to have unrest, who are not even respecting the population it impacts as actual people, but only pawns in a bitterly cynical game of their own self power. Hey who cares that the population lives in grinding poverty (of morale, not even or chiefly property) as long as we can be kings and queens?
I think these communities ought to get mad. At those who are playing them for fools.
This is what you wanted, so suck it up buttercup.
Call MARILYN MOSBY. It’s her time.
You excluded all but your OWN views in political discourse for decades, you demonized all but your OWN politicians, you categorically refused input from any individuals but your OWN ‘leadership’, you systematically and shamelessy mishandled the 'stimulus' that you received, you turned your community into THE living, breathing blueprint for how and why a single party system is doomed to failure.....but NOW you insist on blaming the people and the ideologies that you routinely excluded from the leadership of your community!!
Did I get that right?
Ohhh those racist police kept black citizens safe now those racist police have pulled out of policing and black on black crime is up....Al Sharpton is busy counting is millions to stop black on black violence.
Who didn’t see this coming? These victims are going to be victims, regardless.
Blame Sister Girl Mayor...she owns it.
They bought into extremism so long that any measured answer simply escapes them.
Freddie Gray situations ought not to be ignored, but somehow there have to be other possible choices on the plate between “Off with their heads” and “Ha ha! We don’t care.”
Good! Glad to hear it, it really warms my heart. And don’t give me any crap about the ‘good’ people who live there and are suffering. I no longer believe in that fairy tale.
I'm in favor of giving them all guns and letting them go at it. Then send SWAT teams in and arrest whoever's left standing.
That nails that idiotic “mayor” and her decree quite well.
You realize that they feel the same way about you if you should encounter any racially charged... “misfortune” — and this is exactly the kind of attitudinal divide that Barack Obama is egging on in his seething hate for America?
You might try not to fall for that. We are not blacks or whites, or even liberals and conservatives, as much as we are people.
But that’s just me (and the God that created us all).
Someday - maybe soon - it's going to dawn on the black community that democrats are benefiting from their misery...
I certainly pray that they will begin accepting the light which conveys that truth (and many other truths that wisdom perceives).
Welcome to the Jungle!! Reap what you sow!!!
The net cost of taking care of The Black Underclass is probably close to a trillion dollars a year drag on the rest of the country. At some point it has to stop.
Reap the Whirlwind, B’more
Cry me a river. Blacks have been criminally attacking whites for years. black on white crime is an epidemic in this country so I don’t really care what they might feel about me...although I’m not a defenseless old man and anyone who tries that crap on me would probably wish they hadn’t.
And they're surprised by this???!!! Did you a$$holes expect something different? This cesspool is what you asked for, now swim in it!!! I have no sympathy.
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