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Baltimore Residents Fearful Amid Rash Of Homicides
CBS Local ^ | May 28, 2015

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.

“I’m afraid to go outside,” said Perrine, 47. “It’s 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? They’re nowhere.”

West Baltimore residents worry they’ve 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 there’s no police,” said Donnail “Dreads” Lee, 34, who lives in the Gilmor Homes, the public housing complex where Gray, 25, was arrested.

“I haven’t 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 aren’t pulling them up like they used to.”

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimore.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; raceindustry
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1 posted on 05/28/2015 8:35:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Be careful what you wish for......


2 posted on 05/28/2015 8:36:25 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Congratulations! You now have the police department you demanded.


3 posted on 05/28/2015 8:36:52 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Absolute proof that Political Correctness KILLS! Enjoy it nitwits!
4 posted on 05/28/2015 8:37:44 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (No tagline today.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Baltimore Residents Fearful Amid Rash Of Homicides”

Call the police


5 posted on 05/28/2015 8:38:00 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hands UP!!

replaced by

Hands OFF!!

Reap what ya sow.. yada yada..


6 posted on 05/28/2015 8:38:53 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Won’t cut the cops loose, won’t arm themselves, won’t take God seriously.

They’ve deprived themselves of the possible solutions.


7 posted on 05/28/2015 8:39:05 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


8 posted on 05/28/2015 8:39:12 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: AlaskaErik

Congratulations! You now have the police department you demanded.

...

More like the police department Uncle Barry demanded.


9 posted on 05/28/2015 8:40:19 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...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.


10 posted on 05/28/2015 8:41:35 AM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: SMARTY

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


11 posted on 05/28/2015 8:41:37 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

>> West Baltimore residents worry they’ve been abandoned by the officers they once accused of harassing them.

I love it when a plan comes together.


12 posted on 05/28/2015 8:41:47 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thugs killing thugs and abortions. The libtards have a way of self-limiting themselves.


13 posted on 05/28/2015 8:41:59 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You built that.

LOL


14 posted on 05/28/2015 8:42:38 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Baltimore has been a cess pool for decades. The only difference is that now that fact has been made more public.


15 posted on 05/28/2015 8:43:28 AM PDT by Pecos (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
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To: Moonman62

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.


16 posted on 05/28/2015 8:44:09 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

““I’m afraid to go outside,” said Perrine, 47. “It’s 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? They’re nowhere.”

““Before it was over-policing. Now there’s 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.


17 posted on 05/28/2015 8:44:22 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: cripplecreek

Nah, you didn’t build that, the people playing you for suckers did!


18 posted on 05/28/2015 8:45:03 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

The hate demon has jumped on everyone’s back. And we wonder why there isn’t any peace now.


19 posted on 05/28/2015 8:46:02 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The residents of Baltimore's hellhole can buy home security systems and form watch groups.

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.

20 posted on 05/28/2015 8:51:34 AM PDT by GOPJ (When Hillary can't 'throw the game' NOT ONE Arab hellhole will pay her for 'speeches'...)
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