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Baltimore mayor fires police commissioner as city's homicide rate spikes
AP via Business Insider ^
| 07/08/2015
Posted on 07/08/2015 1:33:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
BALTIMORE (AP) Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Wednesday that she has fired Police Commissioner Anthony Batts, 2 1/2 months after the city broke out into riots following the death of a man who was injured in police custody.
Rawlings-Blake announced her decision in a three-paragraph news release that also noted she has named Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Davis as interim commissioner.
The mayor scheduled a news conference with Davis for later Wednesday afternoon.
Rawlings did not give a reason, but the move comes amid a spike in the city's homicide rate.
Baltimore was rocked with civil unrest in late April after black resident Freddie Gray died one week after suffering a critical spinal injury in police custody. Six police officers have been criminally charged in Gray's death.
Since the rioting stopped, the city has seen a sharp increase in violence, with 155 homicides this year, a 48 percent increase over the same period last year.
The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a civil rights review of the department, and Batts has been criticized by the Baltimore police union.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; commissioner; crime; keywordtrolls; liberalagenda; police; rawlingsblake; searchandfind
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POLICE COMMISSIONER ANTHONY BATTS
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
07/08/2015 1:40:23 PM PDT
by
donna
(Polls are mob rule . . . faked.)
To: SeekAndFind
But I look smooth in my uniform!
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posted on
07/08/2015 1:41:02 PM PDT
by
Dr. Ursus
To: SeekAndFind
But I look smooth in my uniform!
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posted on
07/08/2015 1:41:04 PM PDT
by
Dr. Ursus
To: SeekAndFind
“”She has named Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Davis as interim commissioner””
Is he her 3rd cousin or 4th removed? Old college buddy maybe?
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posted on
07/08/2015 1:42:53 PM PDT
by
envisio
(I ain't here long... I'm out of napalm and .22 bullets.)
To: SeekAndFind
Yeah, it’s all his fault.
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posted on
07/08/2015 1:42:54 PM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
To: SeekAndFind
There’s just no pleasing some people.
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posted on
07/08/2015 1:44:23 PM PDT
by
Arm_Bears
(Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
To: SeekAndFind
Good!!!
Angry fired ex employees have nothing to lose and will usually tell all.
To: SeekAndFind
Now she's done it....... being anti Amish is racist and it will be bad for all Amish if the guy does good
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posted on
07/08/2015 1:45:24 PM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
To: SeekAndFind
Who in there right mind would want to live in Baltidesh?
Pray America is waking
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posted on
07/08/2015 1:50:21 PM PDT
by
bray
(Cruz to the WH)
To: SeekAndFind
,,,,, I can’t wait till Batts starts spilling his guts about the truth of what happened in Baltimore .
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posted on
07/08/2015 1:51:07 PM PDT
by
Lionheartusa1
()-: 0bamanomics is the equal distribution of adolescent propaganda & indoctrination :-)
To: SeekAndFind
Is his name Rick?
"The firings will continue until morale improves!
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posted on
07/08/2015 1:51:34 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
07/08/2015 1:56:42 PM PDT
by
null and void
(She who uses rope to contain reporters during her candidacy will use rope to hang them when in power)
To: SeekAndFind
Some community is going to get a good battle tested police chief cheaply.
I wish my city needed a police chief. Luckily we have a good one that just filled in as interim city manager.
To: SeekAndFind
Official Press Release
To: SeekAndFind
So the black guy couldn’t get the job done on a racist police force so they promoted the deputy police commissioner of the racist police force to get the job done? New guy is going to have to do a “little black face” (or at least confirm that he considers himself black) or the Just-Us mob is going to destroy him.
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posted on
07/08/2015 2:01:47 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(No matter the laws that get passed or the edicts given they are just queers, freaks and perverts.)
To: RetiredTexasVet
She ordered Batts to give the rioters room to destroy.
That set the tone, and now she blames and fires him.
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posted on
07/08/2015 2:08:50 PM PDT
by
null and void
(She who uses rope to contain reporters during her candidacy will use rope to hang them when in power)
To: null and void
The cops on the street got the message that they weren't supposed to inconvenience the black law breakers with apprehensions for bad behavior. No complaints against the police for brutish behavior against blacks, but lots of unhappy people in the community with the criminals left to do as they please. You either have the rule of law or you don't. Baltimore is unhappy either way.
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posted on
07/08/2015 2:48:25 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: donna
This city so RICHLY DESERVES this mayor.
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posted on
07/08/2015 2:51:56 PM PDT
by
telstar12.5
(...always bring gunships to a gun fight...)
To: SeekAndFind
Salt and pepper while you eat your own; oh, excuse me just pepper.
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posted on
07/08/2015 3:01:46 PM PDT
by
5th MEB
(Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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