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Baltimore Mayor Tries to Address City's Violence by Telling Businesses When to Close
PJ Media ^ | 4-25-2018 | Tom Knighton

Posted on 04/26/2018 3:44:35 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot

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This month, the city has seen at least 29 murders as the violence surged yet again. This led Mayor Catherine E. Pugh to take to the streets to visit some local businesses. One of the exchanges recorded by the Baltimore Sun was a little concerning, though.

You see, Pugh stood inside of an area convenience store and asked what time the store closed. When the owner responded that they closed at 11:30, that wasn't good enough for Pugh.

"Isn’t that late?" the mayor reportedly responded. "That’s a little late. It keeps the crowds around here. Nine o’clock is nice. We need you-all to close at 9 o’clock at night."

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But another business owner indicates that Pugh's walk through the streets of Baltimore didn't give her the full picture.

William Boston owns Will B Better Bodies gym in that same area--I can only assume he's supposed to close at 9:00 as well--and he said that if the mayor hadn't had a police escort she would have seen a different scene.

"You’d see everything going on," Boston told the Sun. "It’s an open-air drug market." ........

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Baltimore (and in other decades-long absolute Dem controlled metropolitan area), in a nutshell.
1 posted on 04/26/2018 3:44:35 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot

the only reason cities exist any longer is to coalesce power-generally to the benefit of Democrats.

There is no reason to aggregate capital or material any longer.

Cities have been on life support since the 1960’s.
As the national line of credit is exhausted, watch them all fold


2 posted on 04/26/2018 3:47:07 AM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Back in the 80s, I had a long description given to me by a guy who grew up in 1960s/1970s Baltimore. Great atmosphere. Charm. It was a great place to be.

At some point in the 1980s....as cocaine flowed in. It changed. Crime swung up. The affect of DC, the gangs, drug spiral....changed it into a place which isn’t safe. I don’t see why any company chooses to stay there and operate. It’s the Detroit of the east.


3 posted on 04/26/2018 3:52:02 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Sir Napsalot

Baltimordor.


4 posted on 04/26/2018 3:58:10 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: mo

the only reason cities exist any longer is to coalesce power-generally to the benefit of Democrats.

Baltimore is a prime example of the end-game of bureaucracy. The city is largely dead. Literally dead. Blocks and blocks of abandoned houses. But the bureaucracy remains. The parasite has outlived the host.


5 posted on 04/26/2018 3:59:41 AM PDT by Flick Lives (F*ck the FBI)
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To: Sir Napsalot
"Isn’t that late?" the mayor reportedly responded. "That’s a little late. It keeps the crowds around here. Nine o’clock is nice. We need you-all to close at 9 o’clock at night."

That sounds like a sound bite from Office Space II.

And could you work on Saturday while you are at it?
6 posted on 04/26/2018 4:02:35 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I remember when the allowed rioting happened in Baltimore. The “community leaders” wanted police to be gone. They said they were going to police their communities on their own.


7 posted on 04/26/2018 4:07:24 AM PDT by grania (President Trump, stop believing the Masters of War!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

You mean midnight basset ball did not save it?


8 posted on 04/26/2018 4:09:58 AM PDT by BTCM (Death and destruction is the only treaty Muslims comprehend.)
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To: grania

Yeah, I don’t know if it is the same woman mayor.

But it didn’t really matter, they are all the same.


9 posted on 04/26/2018 4:12:29 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Not the same mayor. Stephanie Rawlings-Blake did not run for re-election.


10 posted on 04/26/2018 4:17:31 AM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever!)
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To: mewzilla
"Baltimordor."

The Orcs, they be gettin restless...

Look up the good mayors record. She's never held a job outside the public relations / community organizer rackets. Her university frat was just a front for the local campus Marxists. (Delta Sigma Theta, a public service sorority) Oh yeah, and she's "a runner and fitness enthusiast".

11 posted on 04/26/2018 4:20:33 AM PDT by Desron13 (Inside every progressive is a petty tyrant straining to break free.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Wait...I thought there was a ‘truce’ of some kind in Baltimore.

What is this ‘violence’ they speak of?


12 posted on 04/26/2018 4:33:57 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: wbarmy

LOL...”That would be greaaaat...”


13 posted on 04/26/2018 4:34:46 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: mo

“There is no reason to aggregate capital or material any longer.”

BINGO! Cities first appeared along water routes to take advantage of cheap transportation. Labor and capital were attracted and the three elements created whole civilizations. Welfare, poor law enforcement, political correctness and all the other unaddressed social ills are combining to eliminate any desire someone might have to live in close proximity to their fellow man. There is no pressing reason someone has to live in a city given today’s infrastructure and technology. Cities are being destroyed because they have become the power sources of liberal politicians whose only goal is to get rich off the suffering of others. Great cities like Chicago and Detroit could have stayed vital going concerns if not for the evil influence of Democratic power mongers.


14 posted on 04/26/2018 5:00:22 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Freee-dame
Same mayor. Same politics and same color. Just a different name.

One would be hard-pressed to see any difference from the previous mayor.

15 posted on 04/26/2018 5:25:19 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Sir Napsalot
” Nine o’clock is nice. We need you-all to close at 9 o’clock at night.”

Don't go out onto the streets of Baltimore at night.

Don't go out onto the streets of Baltimore during the day.

16 posted on 04/26/2018 5:35:56 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Flick Lives

Another Democrat “success story”. /sarc


17 posted on 04/26/2018 5:58:19 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Sir Napsalot

Why not go one step further and completely shut the businesses down to end violence. Its working so well in Venezuela.


18 posted on 04/26/2018 6:00:01 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: pepsionice

“At some point in the 1980s....as cocaine flowed in. It changed. Crime swung up. The affect of DC, the gangs, drug spiral....changed it into a place which isn’t safe. I don’t see why any company chooses to stay there and operate. It’s the Detroit of the east.”

You sure illicit drugs had anything to do with it?

I ask because I’ve been told over and over and over again that drugs are a victimless crime and life would be grand if only we could stop trying to being so pure as to tell people drugs are harmful.


19 posted on 04/26/2018 6:10:30 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
Even before the Orioles decided to pay huge contracts to guys that can't hit or pitch, the city ruined them by allowing rioting to take place without any police response.

The result is abysmal attendance that makes the inner harbor even less desirable. I didn't think that was possible. Democrats will, eventually, kill everything that is good.

20 posted on 04/26/2018 6:25:33 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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