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Social media analysis suggests links between Baltimore and Ferguson violence
Fox News ^ | April 28, 2015 | Catherine Herridge

Posted on 04/28/2015 1:40:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

EXCLUSIVE - An analysis of social media traffic in downtown Baltimore Monday has unearthed striking connections to the protests in Ferguson, Mo. last year, according to a leading data mining firm that shared its findings exclusively with Fox News.

The firm, which asked to remain anonymous because of its government work, found between 20 and 50 social media accounts in Baltimore that were also tied to the peak period of violence in Ferguson. While further analysis is being conducted on the data, it suggests the presence of "professional protesters" or anarchists taking advantage of Freddie Gray's death to incite more violence.

Gray, 25, died April 18, a week after being injured while in police custody. A wave of violence erupted in Baltimore following his funeral Monday.

One account, which also tracked the recent union protests in New York City as well as other disturbances, tweeted photos of Gray's funeral and used language that seemed to anticipate violence in Baltimore....

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Maryland; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: anarchists; baltimore; blackkk; crime; elijahcummings; ferguson; maryland; protests; riots; seattle
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1 posted on 04/28/2015 1:40:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
it suggests the presence of "professional protesters"

What - they've never heard of Jessee Jackson?
Al Sharpton?

2 posted on 04/28/2015 1:42:38 PM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: grobdriver
What - they've never heard of Jessee Jackson? Al Sharpton?

I know right? Meanwhile, the FBI and Homeland security are looking for those radical constitutional conservatives that should be feared.

3 posted on 04/28/2015 1:45:32 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In Ferguson, of the people arrested for rioting, the majority were people from outside of Ferguson. People traveled from as far away as California to be in Ferguson to riot.

I wonder if we will see how many criminals arrested are actually from Baltimore and how many were bussed in to riot in Baltimore??? Would be interesting to know.


4 posted on 04/28/2015 1:46:21 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
well there IS this connection....


5 posted on 04/28/2015 1:47:19 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
"Social media analysis suggests links
between Baltimore and Ferguson violence"


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6 posted on 04/28/2015 1:48:56 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: grobdriver

“it suggests the presence of “professional protesters”

What - they’ve never heard of Jesse Jackson?
Al Sharpton”

Nope. Think bigger. Remember after Trayvon when a special team was set up within Justice to work on this kind of stuff? Why would a social research firm that has gov’t contracts be afraid to let it’s name come out? This points to a private firm (run by patriots) that has uncovered covert US government involvement in racial agitation.


7 posted on 04/28/2015 1:50:58 PM PDT by happyathome
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To: happyathome
This points to a private firm (run by patriots) that has uncovered covert US government involvement in racial agitation.

Yeah - I was going to add Eric Holder and Barry Obama,but I figured that'd be over the top...

8 posted on 04/28/2015 1:53:53 PM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: grobdriver

Didn’t the US State Dept or someone send people who basically encouraged riots in Ferguson??


9 posted on 04/28/2015 1:57:09 PM PDT by GeronL (Clearly Cruz 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If Team 0dumbo can orchestrate rioters in Egypt under the guise of 'Arab Spring', THEY CAN DO IT IN FERGUSON AND BALTIMORE. The stank of the Islamo-Fascists is all over this one.

Setting the stage for the nationalization of America's police depts., just as Loretta Lynch starts her new job.. NO COINCIDENCE!

THIS is the guy who CUT the fire hoses leading to the CVS fire.. THIS guy right here and I'd sure like to know who HE'S working for:


10 posted on 04/28/2015 1:58:36 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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Let’s look at the real problem, shall we? Just ask yourself this question: “WHAT IS THE JOB OF THE POLICE, IN EVERY CITY, COUNTY, STATE or FEDERAL”? To enforce the laws that these politicians put on the books, correct? It really doesn’t matter whether those laws are dumb or stupid, I call them “CHICKEN SHIT” laws, the police are bound to enforce them. Most of these “CHICKEN SHIT” laws are there to fill the coffers of the city, by fines they collect.These laws harm only the poorer people in those cities, and the police, being the enforcers, are in the front line. They are the ones being blamed for enforcing these “CHICKEN SHIT” laws. I have yet to see the politicians getting the blame for these laws.


11 posted on 04/28/2015 1:59:33 PM PDT by gingerbread
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My thoughts too.. I kept asking myself “WHY DO WE EVEN BOTHER HAVING POLICE or NATIONAL GUARD IN BLACK COMMUNITIES?” They can’t do anything, so why pay them and give them pensions?


12 posted on 04/28/2015 2:06:29 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: grobdriver
What - they've never heard of Jessee Jackson? Al Sharpton?

The Obama Justice Department is on the job.


13 posted on 04/28/2015 2:06:58 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Oh, yeah. A voluntary internal aWe may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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14 posted on 04/28/2015 2:07:00 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How about the Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan ?


15 posted on 04/28/2015 2:10:56 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe like ProjectR : build it already Congre)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What are the connections to Sharpton, Holder and Obama?


16 posted on 04/28/2015 2:12:08 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: gingerbread

The REAL problem is fatherless homes where there’s NO discipline. Next add the lack of jobs created by a prez who attacks small business. Next add the lack of available jobs because we have a prez who is flooding America with CHEAP LABOR from South of the border. Next add blacks living in a country with rule of law they have no respect for; Deport them!


17 posted on 04/28/2015 2:20:51 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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Yes, there is a link. It is the mind addled illegal drug culture. Numerous studies have documented the strong relationship between substance use and crime, and although causality between the two has not been conclusively established, U.S. statistics show that more than 50% of state and federal inmates used drugs in the month prior to committing the offense for which they were incarcerated and that more than a quarter of all offenders were using drugs at the time of their offense (U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2006; Miller et al., 2006).


18 posted on 04/28/2015 2:52:22 PM PDT by jonrick46 (America's real drug problem: other people's money (the Commutist's opium addiction).)
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To: happyathome
Think bigger

I'd go even beyond that - I'm saying the persons in the Obama Admin actively coordinated with both the Communist Party USA, various anarchists to supply useful idiots, and certain major media outlets to then promote the destruction as "a justified protest".

They were about to try it again there in Baltimore (notice Je$$e and $harpton suddenly showing up?), until the polls came back overwhelmingly negative - thus, Obama's criticism today. Guess the public has finally had enough of the criminality.


19 posted on 04/28/2015 3:58:27 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It won’t happen, but they all should be charged RICO violations.


20 posted on 04/28/2015 4:15:54 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (anarchotyranny-“we refuse to control real criminals (anarchy) so we control the innocent (tyranny)")
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