Posted on 04/28/2015 3:16:00 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Baltimore's mayor came under criticism on Tuesday for a slow police response to some of the worst urban rioting in the United States in years with shops looted, buildings burned to the ground and 20 officers injured.
Mayor Rawlings-Blake, an African-American and Democrat who grew up in the city 40 miles (64 km) from Washington, D.C., imposed a one-week curfew but stressed the need to respond in a way that did not incite more violence.
"It's a very delicate balancing act, when we have to make sure that we're managing but not increasing and escalating the problem," Rawlings-Blake, 45, told reporters on Tuesday.
Baltimore police captain Kowalczyk told reporters that as the violence increased, older people were involved.
"When we deployed our officers yesterday, we were deploying for a high school event,” Kowalczyk said. “I don’t think there’s anyone in the country that would expect us to deploy with automatic weapons and armored vehicles to an event with 13- 14- and 15-year-olds.”
Police in Ferguson came under intense criticism last year for quickly adopting a militarized posture, using armored vehicles, showing heavy weapons and using tear gas.
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They are still being told to stand down on scanner.
The rent-a-mob will be there to incite their "Little Pet Negroes" to continue to cause mayhem.
Self hating white guilt liberals use blacks as their tools.
"Ya'll best need to quit that mess! I done got elected and be tryin' to help people!"
I think it’s funny that blacks are in control of the city. Blacks are rioting and other blacks (Sharpton, Obaman, Jackson) are stirring it up. No whitey in sight. Let them control their own problems. You can see they all think the riots are ok and therefore giving stand down orders to the police force who are being assaulted which is against the law.
Just another incompetent Democrat in Baltimore (exceptions Donald Schaeffer, Theodore McKeldin, and Grady).
I was born and raised there. The political corruption stank more than the harbor.
There’s an episode of Frasier where Niles’ bird said Stephanie was ‘cute but stupid’ and it seems the bird was ahead of its time. Baby [the bird] also said she was something else but we’ll leave that one be...
She certainly did NOT look like that photo today on CNN, she had on a blue windbreaker, a baseball cap and a T-shirt. She looked like she was ready to rumble! /s;)
High school kids are 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. Is this police spokesman completely ignorant of the age of high school kids? Didn't he look at a TV and see who was throwing rocks and bricks at the police? They were not 13 and 14 year olds. I guess he wants to be able to call them children.
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