Posted on 04/29/2015 3:52:22 PM PDT by markomalley
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake denies a report by Fox News that she gave a stand down order to her city’s police department on the days riots broke out over the death of Freddie Gray.
Rawlings-Blake defended her actions — as well as Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s decision to not be overly “aggressive” towards rioters — on Saturday and Monday as not a stand down but an appropriate response for the time.
“The situation on the ground when you are engaged in an incident is a lot different than what you can see or experience on television. Officers are doing an amazing job. I don’t want to jinx myself and say we’ve had no loss of life. We’ve had some injuries with our officers and they are on the mend,” she said.
Rawlings-Blake explained, “I think they could’ve gone two ways. We could have calmed it down aggressively and been accused of using accessible force–the same thing the communities are upset about now or we can do what we did and use a very serious but measured approach and once we had the appropriate resources in place to respond appropriately, we went in.”
The Baltimore Democrat claimed the response was not a stand down saying, “No. It’s not holding back. It’s responding appropriately. You don’t have all of your equipment in play because things are changing in real time. You can’t respond. You can’t react. If you arrest someone and the wagons aren’t there, what are you gonna do with them?”
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani disagrees with the tactic used by Rawlings-Blake, telling the hosts on “Fox and Friends” Wednesday that what Maryland officials, Missouri officials and New York officials did during riots is apply a now-discredited policing theory.
Referencing one particular riot from a policing report discrediting the “cooling off period” for rioters, Giuliani said, “The mayor at the time basically allowed the people to riot at the time–to get the steam–to get it out. And the police backed off. Until finally so upset, because the cops were being beaten up so bad, that Chief Anemone had to come in, under Ray Kelly who had been a deputy, and they had to end the riot. That was after three days of people getting pounded and beaten.”
Giuliani explained, “So in the report, Gentilly writes, ‘you shouldn’t allow a cooling off period. You should arrest the first person who throws a rock. You should arrest the first person who breaks a window. You should arrest the first person who tries to burn something. Stop it immediately when it’s three people not when it’s 1000. There’s no such thing as a cooling off period. A beginning riot gets hotter. It doesn’t get cooler.”
However, Congressional Black Caucus members appear to like the response from the Baltimore City Police, believing that “much can be learned from managing civil unrest by the way this was handled.”
The mayor of Idiocracy.
She already lied when she denied saying the rioters be given “space to destroy”, even though there was video of her saying that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-TWGuxM4eo
Too funny in the comments section. They were “shopping aggressively.”
Ya’ just can’t make this stuff up. SMH.
“However, Congressional Black Caucus members appear to like the response from the Baltimore City Police, believing that “much can be learned from managing civil unrest by the way this was handled.””
Absolutely. Learn not to be this freaking stupid in the coming riots.
I watched the video. She correctly said “excessive force”. It’s the article’s transcription of what she said that is wrong.
Hmmm
That’s ‘Baltighazi’.. Attacked by terrorists and no effort made to stop them.
“Is that what the Rhodes Scholar mayor actually said?”
You mean AAA and PPP mayor said?
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Got it. I was thinking the ferals are trying to get it to look like Mosul.
A riot is an ugly thing!
She’s just bilunguo. She didn’t say “accessible” force, she said “excesivo” force, for the benefit of her Spanish constituents.
All the “protests” really showed was what the Baltimore Police have had to deal with for years. That goes from top down.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke: Obama ‘Quietly Enjoying’ Unrest in Baltimore
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3284576/posts
therightpundit ^ | 4/29/15 | David Clarke
Not holding back one bit. Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke says O is “quietly enjoying” what’s going on in Baltimore because he’s a ‘promoter of division’ and has ‘benefitted politically’ from ‘dividing’ people.
Sheriff Clarke points out all the times President Obama has pitted one group of Americans against another. He also questions why Obama didn’t come out and speak about the Baltimore riots earlier. He was interviewed here on the Mark Levin Show
She really said “accessible-force” ?
This keeps getting better and better.
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Good. That makes me feel a little better about her anyway. Thank you for correcting me.
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