Posted on 04/27/2015 12:03:02 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
The reaction from authorities and activists to the violence exploding from protests in Baltimore appears to be a start of a pattern.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake “thanked the Nation of Islam” Saturday, “who have been very present in our efforts to keep calm and peace in our city.”
The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross asked the mayor’s office relating to her comments about giving “space” to those who wish to “destroy.” The mayor’s office would only say her comments were taken out of context.
The thank you came following the riots that erupted from local protests relating to the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died from spinal injuries he incurred during his detainment by Baltimore law enforcement.
Malik Zulu Shabazz, former chairman of the New Black Panther Party, descended upon the city the day before the protests began and he told supporters at a rally, “Shut it down if you want to! Shut it down!”
After the violence erupted the next day, he told a reporter his remarks were only condoning civil disobedience, not mass violence. However, he was “not surprised” by the protesters anger because they “haven’t received justice.”
Bloods, Crips and Nation of Islam members posed with one another on Saturday afternoon in Baltimore. The photo was posted on the Million Man March Facebook page with the caption “Bloods and Crips unite for justice for Freddie Gray #JusticeOrElse.”
The alliance between the Nation of Islam and gangs is not unusual. The Washington Times reported in 2013 that Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan suggested that gang bangers are “natural soldiers” who could be taught the “science of war.”
A similar scenario with the police, gang members and the Nation of Islam happened in Ferguson, Missouri last summer when riots erupted after Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson during a struggle. Newsweek reported at the time that the riots in Ferguson were a major “recruitment tool” for the gangs in the area.
During a press briefing, National Review noted, when Missouri Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson announced a curfew in Ferguson, Shabazz told Johnson his organization — as well as the Nation of Islam — were controlling the situation in Ferguson.
By November, Farrakhan declared that if the demands of Feruson protesters weren’t met, “We’ll tear this goddamn country apart!”
“As you well know, on Thursday night, my group — and thanks to you — my organizers, along with the New Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam, we are the ones who put those men in the streets and we controlled the flow of traffic,” he said.
“I personally shut down the avenue at 2 o’clock,” Shabazz said to Johnson. “You were there, and you witnessed that,” he said noting that establishing a curfew would be a “prescription for confrontation” between protesters and police, adding that the violent confrontations ended because “we have the rapport with the demonstrators—they respect me. They respect us.”
Johnson agreed that Shabazz was “absolutely correct” in his assertions.
A grand jury did not bring charges against Wilson and the Department of Justice cleared the officer of any wrong doing.
The Daily Caller reported in early January that Farrakhan called for “retaliation” for the death of Brown. One month later, two NYPD officers were killed execution style.
The incident happened after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio criticized the NYPD, saying his biracial son, Dante, should be fearful of police as a result of law enforcement’s apparent bias against black people. The remarks were made during protests of the NYPD’s handling of Eric Garner, a black man who died when police held him down during an attempted arrest in Staten Island.
The Baltimore City Police received a credible threat Monday that gang members are looking to take out law enforcement. The threat appears similar to a warning the NYPD received from some gang members during the Garner protests.
Gawd, America is so screwed!
Notice the NoI guy flashing the IS sign.
It has to burn to the ground in order to get better.
Sucks but thats how it is.
:’)
Maybe she should thank ISIS and the demons from hell too...
I’m sick of tax dollars being used to babysit the black community.
Police should be allocated based on population - not on how many out of control psychopathic losers live in a ‘community’....
USA is not a bad country, not at all!
After six years of O trashing America every time he speaks, the idea that USA needs to suffer or even (as you say) ‘burn to the ground’ — has gotten very wide spread “out there.”
All I can say is that I disagree profoundly with that thought.
We need a prez and congress that will remove Obama’s impediments to empmloyment and business and investment...
I do believe that..the natural optimism and “hard work” ethic of most Americans will then reawaken...and thrive...
people having jobs (and businesses) ... will enable them to get back to making better lives for themselves and their family and friends...,
we will all benefit....
besides, once you start a fire ... it tends to spread... and can burn far more than you intended
Let me in complete charge of one of these cities with no repercussions possible, and I'll guarantee you I'll end the reign of the thugs.
Libs believe in a "living" constitution? Then watch how I'll use the constitution. Many of the perps won't be living after I get done.
To quote Billy Joel...We didn’t start the fire.
We all have a little Fox Mulder in us. We want to believe. But looking out the window, I see most people that arent down with the whole hard work/responsibility and the calandar says 2015 not 1955.
It sucks. Completely. but look at the situation for what it is. “We” are damn near extinct. “We” havent done anything to save ourselves. But “We” sure did line up to vote for more liberals. And thats why we are in deep crap.
“We” can’t or actually “WON’T admit it. Much less do anything different to correct it. And we had plenty of opportunity.
In the past 20 years
1) Conservatives have been eliminated from our universities
2) Conservatives have been largely eliminated from the political process by big money interests.
3) Now the left is criminalizing our Christianity, and YES, with the help of the MSM, universities, BOTH political parties and big business.
AND Freepers that KNOWINGLY AND WILLFULLY keep electing GOPers that side with Dems in their anti-God agenda. Let us NEVER forget those here that work so hard to assist them.
Believe me, I have not forgotten. They pop up every day.
Oh I know. I meant that for the people somehow still in denial about it.
Yep, that sounds about right.
And Yes, to face them I do have an M-16 Service Rifle And an Orbital Death Laser Targeting Deceive. but don't tell anyone.
I thank God I live in a place where almost everyone has a gun, and you don’t need a CCW to carry it.
There were 2 guys behind her at her first press statement. I said to hubby, those are NOI guys. They were just missing their suits and bow ties.
However, he was “not surprised” by the protesters anger because they “haven’t received justice.”
Did anyone see the rap sheet on this clown? He was terrorizing the neighborhood. I guess they didn’t mind.
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