At some point in my pre-nap state, I heard Page Hopkins' commentary. The woman was watching anarchy unfold before her very eyes. Her awe and outright honesty caused me to turn and see what the heck was going on.
Before my eyes I saw, well I simply could not believe it. People were going in people's homes and bringing out goods. Other gang members, rioters, whoever they were, were tearing apart a fence and using the boards to ram a building.
Gangs of black males finally opened what I suppose was a store. They then began to throw stuff out of the store out into the crowd. At one point I could swear they were throwing COINS out to the crowd.
Page Hopkins lost it a bit when, again before our disbelieving eyes, we saw a gang of thugs run into a building and then saw the building erupt in flames.
With all this and mine own lying sleepy eyes not believing this mess, the camera pans out to where the cops were.
Which was NOT, ladies and gems, anywhere NEAR where all this criminal activity.
Somebody at Fox was trying this lame political justification like "they're probably just letting them get out their anger, vent their frustrations", as reason why the cops weren't moving. I dunno but it was surreal watching on one hand the utter chaos and lawlessness of that gang of thugs then to pan away and watch a couple of scores of cops, all of them just walking about mindlessly.
Page probably got taken off the air because she was like the rest of us out here in la-la land. WE GOT EYEBALLS!
We KNOW what the hell we were seeing. We were seeing criminals, crime...unfettered, unashamed, unquenched.
I don't know what the story is with the cops. About ten minutes later they did start moving towards the chaos.
And Fox did go on to another story to my complete amazement. THIS was the story of the day and they had a camera capturing it all.
It's all still new yet. The truth will come out. Some Blogger somewhere will get to the bottom of it.
But it was the damn strangest thing my lying eyeballs have seen since...well since New Orleans.
Both of your reports are chilling.
I certainly hope and pray that NO one here is condoning this and falling for the PC....
It doesn't seem like there is a side to cheer for in this thing. Obviously neo nazis are getting no sympathy. But the riot that ensued has no excuse and seems to involve gang members. It seems to me violent gangs are at least as dangerous as neo nazis in the present day.
I think you're going to be fishing for conspiracy theories that don't exist.
Toledo PD has had a lot of cuts made in recent times, and thus do not have as many officers as they once did, and it would have been unwise to directly engage the rioters any more than they did. I am sure that there is part of the contingent of rioters that wanted nothing more than to become martyrs and the TPD did not grant any such wishes today. When people were in the direct path of violence, they went in and did what was needed (they stopped the action at the gas station and the bar relatively quickly) but did not start a fight with the rioters for the heck of it. The violence was confined to a relatively small area consisting of a few blocks in northeast toledo and they did a good job of not allowing it to spread. I passed within a few miles of where this was happening earlier today and you literally wouldn't have even known anything was even happening just down the road -- the rioters were very effectively isolated and they should be commended for that.
How different this story would have been if the blacks had stood en mass stone faced and silent against the Nazis?
These thugs and criminals were the types that Hitler enlisted for his Stormtroopers. Color makes no difference.
I bet not one of them had the remotest idea of how close their hate is to that of the Nazis.
Rioters...shoot to kill.
We will hear NO denunciation of these thugs by Farrakhan, Jackoff, sharpton. Too bad Cindy Al Sheehani was not there.