Posted on 04/29/2015 7:59:38 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
BALTIMORE — On April 27, Daily Caller News Foundation reporters Connor D. Wolf and Casey Harper went to Baltimore with The TheDC’s Grae Stafford to find the truth behind the Freddie Gray protests. What we found instead were violent thugs willing to go after anyone — even us.
While we interviewed looters, gang-bangers and activists, criminals violently set upon us. Here is the story of that chaotic night, and the events that led us to that frantic melee.
Wolf:
I was interviewing a group of rioters who were busy stealing an ATM machine at the intersection of North Fulton Avenue and West North Avenue. They initially agreed to speak with me, if I wouldn’t take any more pictures.
Below, is the last picture Harper was able to take:
But some other folks had a different idea, and while I was scribbling frantic notes, I was sucker-punched in the face. You can see where the pen trails off on the top line, when they hit me; my blood marks the page:
My nose was broken, and I was bleeding uncontrollably as the crowd surrounded me. Disorientated, I tried to get away, but it wasn’t until I was able to push through the crowd that my crew of fellow reporters saw me and realized I needed help.
Grae Stafford, our crew leader and TheDC’s photographer, grabbed me when he saw what happened and led me across a street covered in fires, debris, crowds of looters and the twisted metal hulks of burnt-out cars. Harper, my fellow DCNF reporter, and Trey Yingst, a reporter from News 2 Share, were on hand to help.
As Harper used his phone to shine a light on my injuries, a young girl apologized: She and her crew were there only for the ATM — which they tore apart, but couldn’t get a dollar out of — and what they could find from shattered storefronts. But as she approached, violent thugs followed, including the crook who had broken my nose.
They seized Casey’s phone, loudly demanded our cameras and gear. We were being robbed, and the crowd around us was growing and becoming more violent. (ON-THE-GROUND PHOTOS: Baltimore Burns, Rioters Wreak Havoc)
Harper:
I crouched and shined my iPhone’s flashlight onto Wolf’s bloody face as Stafford prepared bandages. Suddenly, a criminal snatched the phone from my hand. My heart sank as I turned to see him disappearing into a crowd of a dozen masked, frenzied teenage rioters, who were shouting as they closed in on us.
“Come on, man!” I pleaded with my assailant. I noticed a white man about five yards away, menacingly pounding a hammer in the palm of his hand. He looked high on something violent. A young girl next to me called to him to give it back, when my robber stopped, turned, and started to move toward me again, telling me I had to delete all of my pictures, videos and notes — evidence of the violence he and his friends were visiting on their own neighbors. When he veered off again, seeming unsure of what to do, I turned back to check on Wolf.
Then I was hit: One of the thugs clubbed me across the right side of the head with a full bottle of liquor, fracturing my cheekbone and giving me a concussion. I fell to the ground, stunned and blacking out as my attackers pounced on me. A girl screamed.
Stafford moved quickly, pushing through the mob, grabbing my sleeve. “Get up!” he barked.
I stumbled to my knees, and he pulled me ahead, guiding me as I staggered through the riot.
Wolf:
As we turned the corner, the mob gave chase. Edgar Sandoval, a reporter from New York Daily News, came over, leading us to his nearby car. We piled in as quickly as we could, speeding off from the intersection that police later told us was the most dangerous in the city that night. We made it several blocks before we were stopped by a line of police in full riot gear.
We climbed out of the car to assess our injuries. I was bleeding badly, but a delirious Casey looked worse.
The police pointed us toward a safe hospital, where we would spend the night filing photos and videos from our remaining equipment under doctor observation.
That night, the city of Baltimore was dominated by vicious thugs. We had come to find the truth behind the protests. Looks like we had. Before we were faced with a city plunged into anarchy, we met those who sought answers through peaceful demonstrations.
We saw rival gangs, the Crips and the Bloods, together in the hopes of showing the police a message more powerful than violence. Though they were angry, they stood together to show their mistrust in the justice system. That was the message they wanted the world to know and that was the message that was drowned out by savage violence.
Note that local LEOs tried to arrest & prosecute them for doing so. Only by swapping weapons frequently and NOBODY TALKING did they not get charged & prosecuted.
Oh Baltimore
Beat-up little seagull
On a marble stair
Tryin’ to find the ocean
Lookin’ everywhere
Hard times in the city
In a hard town by the sea
Ain’t nowhere to run to
There ain’t nothin’ here for free
Hooker on the corner
Waitin’ for a train
Drunk lyin’ on the sidewalk
Sleepin’ in the rain
And they hide their faces
And they hide their eyes
‘Cause the city’s dyin’
And they don’t know why
Oh Baltimore
Man it’s hard just to live
Oh, Baltimore
Man, it’s hard just to life, just to live
Get my sister Sandy
And my little brother Ray
Buy a big old wagon
To haul us all away
Live out in the country
Where the mountain’s high
Never comin’ back here
‘Til the day I die
Oh, Baltimore
Man, it’s hard just to live
Oh, Baltimore
Man, it’s hard just to live, just to live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhdh8kSM7lY
Reporters attacked? Well, that’s the first piece of good news I’ve heard in quite a while.
I can see some hipster chick sitting in front of the speaker, zoned out on Red Bulls, singing this...
Its really quite a song..and so very timely.
“NOBODY TALKING” yep, dat’s da key........I guess it’s really true, snitches get stiches. lol
Liberals Get Mugged - Still Vow Never To Become Conservatives
The went “...to find the truth behind the Freddie Gray protests. What we found instead were violent thugs willing to go after anyone”
What does he mean “instead”. Looks like they found the truth they were looking for. Idiot liberals still cant realize it, and still can’t say it.
Conservative; “Oh my God, why is there a giant gorilla in your room?”
Liberal: “No, no gorilla there”
Conservative” “Yes, right there, a giant snarling gorilla”
Liberal: “Nope... no gorilla, don’t see it”
As far as I am concerned, it could not happen to a nicer bunch of guys. When they are attacking us and busting our heads, they encourage and alibi for them. Let them get a piece of the action for a change.
Well .... Doh!
>>What we found instead were violent thugs willing to go after anyone — even us.<<
The “even us” comment is what I find funny. As if they couldn’t possibly imagine that they’d be targeted. Like they shared some kind of symbiotic bond with the feral urban yutes, given they’ve spent so much time in Liberal La-La Land defending and protecting them.
Sorry, Chuck, you’re not “down with the struggle” just because you’re soaked to the bone in White Guilt. You’re unarmed, weak, pasty, and soft. A perfect target for those you’ve been brainwashed into loving.
“They initially agreed to speak with me, if I wouldn’t take any more pictures.”
Dreamed of being either Woodward or Bernstein in high school journalism class, National Merit scholarship 5th runner-up? Ate the covers off his textbooks ....
These guys give a whole new meaning to "dumber than a box of rocks!"
I can visualize it now:
These Dohboys were standing around asking each other whether they ought to proceed with a "deep and wide ranging interview" with a gang of thugs robbing an ATM.
A normal guy who happened to be standing nearby asked them: "Well Doh!" "Why don't you film them committing that obvious crime, and just report it as a crime committed under the "no justice, no peace" baloney story?"
Ignoring him, they proceeded on with their plan to "dig out the underlying injustices and the racist social issues driving the actions" of these inner-city Yutes!
And then .... KABLAM! .... reality came to visit the Dohboys.
Looters are out there recruiting the press to come over to the conservatives side...
You’ll enjoy this:
It is perfectly obvious that the Tea Party People ........Yes ... the Tea Baggers ... are behind this rioting. They have clearly formed an alliance with the vicious roaming gangs of Norwegian Bikers who specialize in ethnic mimicry en masse in order to fool the Barney Fifes of local law enforcement.
You need further evidence? A trail of mugged Avon Ladies report having their extensive cosmetic kits stolen. Costume shops are routinely looted. Local libraries report dialect cassettes long overdue ... especially Ebonics programs. Weird lights are seen in the dead of night in the Lutheran Church Basements where the Viking Marauders meet to dress, get high on lutefisk and akvavit, and plan their depredations.
If only local cops would shout "Ragnar!" at some thug they may know as "Dawntay" or "Felonius", they would soon get to the bottom of this and decent Americans would learn how the trickery of illegal Norwegian immigrants in league with their Tea Party Pals is causing us to blame our fellow Americans for these dastardly crimes and bloody riots in Ferguson and Baltimore!
"Their goal," you ask? Also obvious: to prevent many more billions in investment in the inner cities!
Yes, yes, I see it all now!
Remember All, you read it here first on FR!
Yes, I also noticed how even though he was beaten severely solely by black people he still had to get a “dig” in at white people.
I am glad he was beaten. He is the enemy of my people, and of civilization.
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