Posted on 04/27/2015 12:28:50 PM PDT by kristinn
The University of Maryland, Baltimore and numerous downtown businesses closed early Monday, citing concerns about potentially violent activity in the area.
Lexington Market, a city courthouse and businesses including T. Rowe Price and Venable LLP said police warned them of large gatherings and protests downtown.
According to widely circulated flier, a high school "purge" was to take place at 3 p.m., starting at Mondawmin and ending downtown.
Such memes have been known to circulate regularly, but today's has led to bolstered police presence around the city.
The flier includes an image of protesters smashing the windshield of a police car this past weekend after a march spurred by the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old man who died earlier this month after being arrested by city police, turned violent and destructive.
A post on the University of Maryland Baltimore's website said that the closure was prompted by a recommendation from city police. The campus will also stop shuttle service.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Hey, kid’s been out all night. Poor dears need their rest.
I understand that the businesses that got looted and torched were mostly new in the neighborhood- now we’ll get to hear the endless carping about food deserts and economic blight from people who can’t understand why business owners don’t want to risk their stake in places where this kind of thing happens.
I’m just down in NOVA, I might chance Fort McHenry, but I don’t know the area well enough to not get lost so I guess Baltimore is off my list.
It’s all about the ROE. Which is controlled by civilians, who have agendas.
I so agree with you.
Baltimore is more dangerous than Phila. and Washington.......
“And the riot’s red glare,
and cars burning on-air...”
I’ll take your word for it.
I’m not in a position to move on it yet, but I feel a powerful draw to get rural and as self-sufficient as I possibly can.
Do it.
I would not live in a city for anything.
Good idea...I shared I’ve moved over 30 times...lived in all sizes....though I prefer small communities over too rural...but here you can drive less than 5 miles and your in the country/rural. Perfect for me.
Me neither, and I have lived in major cities...and I mean IN them.... people there never are without “Hype” of one form or another....that’s why many can’t adjust to living in the country. They don’t know what to do with themselves without city stimulation.
Where as rural people can move to the city and adjust quite well..it’s like living at the country fair 24/7.... but eventually they all return, usually, to rural America....or at least to the outer suburbs.
The mayor should be tarred and feathered.
I just woke up...are they still looting?
I’ve moved like that, too.
I grew up in a little town that had a general store, a tiny post office, two little restaurants and a bar, a gas station, a little two-room K-8 school, a Bible church, the cleanest mountain river you’ve ever seen and maybe ~150 residents. That was it. Our property was off by itself, had it’s own spring and was surrounded by national forest.
You didn’t worry about rioting a-holes there. You worried about forest fires, and you kept the kids and the dogs close during hunting season.
There was one highway that ran through town. 20 miles away was a larger town that boasted a hospital, a couple of supermarkets, schools, car repairs and other necessities.
That’s starting to look pretty good again.
It’s Hell to pay when a politician runs into “The Peter Principle”!
We need more Black elected officials like, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke! http://insider.foxnews.com/2014/12/11/sheriff-clarke-obama-built-racial-divide
See also: http://www.newsmax.com/US/Alveda-King-Baltimore-mayor-rioting/2015/04/27/id/641087/
snip Alveda King, niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke say Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake may have encouraged rioting that broke out Monday on the streets of that city.
Mayor (Stepped-in-it) Rawlings-Blake said in a Saturday night press conference.
“It’s a very delicate balancing act, because while we tried to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.”
Funny, I was just thinking how much safer I feel in a 3rd world country I visit, which is primarily black, than I would feel if I were in Baltimore, Ferguson, etc.
Ah ha!
•March 20, 2015: Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Substance
•March 13, 2015: Malicious destruction of property, second-degree assault
•January 20, 2015: Fourth-degree burglary, trespassing
•January 14, 2015: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute
•December 31, 2014: Possession of narcotics with intent to distribute
•December 14, 2014: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance
•August 31, 2014: Illegal gambling, trespassing
•January 25, 2014: Possession of marijuana
•September 28, 2013: Distribution of narcotics, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, second-degree assault, second-degree escape
•April 13, 2012: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, violation of probation
•July 16, 2008: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession with intent to distribute
•March 28, 2008: Unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance
•March 14, 2008: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to manufacture and distribute
•February 11, 2008: Unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance
•August 29, 2007: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, violation of probation
•August 28, 2007: Possession of marijuana
•August 23, 2007: False statement to a peace officer, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance
•July 16, 2007: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance (2 counts)
Two of my good friends married Kenyans way back when (90s). I remember how mortified they were when American blacks would flash them signs or use strange language or whatever. These Kenyans were so American looking and acting, but only the good parts!
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