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War Zone: Baltimore Erupts Into Violence, Chaos as #BlackLivesMatter Riots Rage
Brietbart ^ | 4/25/2015 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 04/26/2015 6:09:23 AM PDT by Altura Ct.

Racial protests supposed to be peaceful quickly turned into violent riots on Saturday evening, closing down the city of Baltimore for some time—and creating a panic for thousands of people as just 50 miles away elites in Washington partied with President Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Personally, I wasn’t supposed to be on the job tonight as a reporter. After a long news week and as several of my contemporaries lived high on the hog down in D.C. at the so-called “Nerd Prom,” me and my brother left D.C. to go see our Boston Red Sox play the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards I hate the White House Correspondents’ Dinner—it represents everything I think is wrong with Washington, making celebrities out of news media and politicians—and given the fact I grew up just outside Boston I figured seeing the Red Sox play in Baltimore would be a great reprieve from the political culture. Boy was I wrong.

My brother and I arrived in Baltimore just outside Camden Yards about an hour before the game, and went into Bullpen Bar—one of three iconic all-brick building bars right outside the stadium—for a beer before the Sox took on the O’s. I usually make it up here for a game or two every year, and have always found Orioles fans to be pleasant...

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To: BenLurkin

Facts aren’t “racist.”


41 posted on 04/26/2015 6:44:45 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: central_va

“...I wasn’t supposed to be on the job tonight as a reporter...me and my brother left D.C. to go see our Boston Red Sox...”

“Me and my brother”???

Doesn’t sound like he is ever on the job as a reporter writing like that. How did “education” fail to instill the most rudimentary basics?


42 posted on 04/26/2015 6:49:51 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
He deserved to have his neck snapped, and deserved to have medical treatment withheld.

Your theory is that because the cops killed a guy, the greater society should tolerate the behavior of animals? They got their troubles, I have mine. I don't give a rat's ass about theirs.

43 posted on 04/26/2015 6:50:21 AM PDT by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
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To: BenLurkin

Looks like he was in pain from the initial takedown.


44 posted on 04/26/2015 6:51:21 AM PDT by petercooper (And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
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To: jch10
Coming to a city near you soon.

Good! All cities are RAT controlled, they desperately deserve it.

45 posted on 04/26/2015 6:51:51 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: SamAdams76

Yeah, he’s not going anywhere. lol


46 posted on 04/26/2015 6:52:41 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Trailerpark Badass

Okay, here’s a fact for you. There are neighborhoods where blacks and whites (and Hispanics and Asians) live side by side. And the property values do NOT go down.


47 posted on 04/26/2015 6:53:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Altura Ct.
Pity the white guy didn`t have a 1 pound ball-peen hammer. When I drove OTR I kept one next to my driver`s chair to 'check for tire inflation', made me feel safer-I mean with the tires that is.
48 posted on 04/26/2015 6:54:05 AM PDT by nomad
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To: A message
"me and my brother" is "indicative of the "me" first culture that is so pervasive"!

Oh did you ever nail it, Mess!

That thought has never occurred to me, but you are obviously a genius!

What a keen insight.

Note tagline.

49 posted on 04/26/2015 6:54:08 AM PDT by Savage Beast ( "Me and my brother left D.C." is indicative of the me-first culture that is so pervasive! A message)
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To: BenLurkin

Good Lord, I drove through Baltimore yesterday, must have just missed this.


50 posted on 04/26/2015 7:00:03 AM PDT by freepertoo
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To: BenLurkin
A Man has his neck snapped — and your reaction is to post a racist cartoon?

If, as it seems to appear so far, the victim's death was a serious travesty, then justice is required.

While I agree with your comment, I must admit an observation occurs to me. I don't believe my observation is racist, yet I imagine it would be considered so.

One is given to wonder why white people aren't rioting and retaliating against blacks when a white person is crippled or murdered by a black knockout attack, which is 100% racially inspired, everyone knows it to be so and it probably happens more frequently than white police killing a black man.

51 posted on 04/26/2015 7:01:31 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: Stentor
Your theory is that because the cops killed a guy, the greater society should tolerate the behavior of animals?

Absolutely not. But that doesn't mean that people should be posting racist cartoons.

They got their troubles, I have mine. I don't give a rat's ass about theirs.

But, in this case, their troubles ARE your troubles, even if you don't realize it. Abusive policing should be troubling to anyone.

52 posted on 04/26/2015 7:08:53 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: ChildOfThe60s
One is given to wonder why white people aren't rioting and retaliating against blacks when a white person is crippled or murdered by a black knockout attack, which is 100% racially inspired, everyone knows it to be so and it probably happens more frequently than white police killing a black man.

Of course your observation is not racist (and, of course, there are some who would portray it as racist).

That said, your observation misses the point. The difference between "knockout-game" type attacks and police abuses is that the former are crimes carried out by private citizens, while the latter are carried out by police officers, acting in their capacity as agents of the state. That is, or should be, troubling to anyone and everyone - black, white, hispanic, asian, whatever.

53 posted on 04/26/2015 7:14:25 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Altura Ct.

Riots = we win big in 2016

Plus, these cities brought it on themselves, I have no pity for them.


54 posted on 04/26/2015 7:20:43 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: BenLurkin
It appears that there have been a number of prior incidents where people get put in the back of a police van, handcuffed but not seat belted in, and subjected to a "rough ride". Several were paralyzed or sustained neck injuries as a result.

Baltimore police appear to like administering extra-judicial punishments. They need to get fired. Not put on "administrative leave", but FIRED and prosecuted.

55 posted on 04/26/2015 7:23:42 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: BenLurkin
There are neighborhoods where blacks and whites (and Hispanics and Asians) live side by side. And the property values do NOT go down.

Sure. Middle-class blacks are no problem. The problems come from the feral underclass.

56 posted on 04/26/2015 7:25:18 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
But, in this case, their troubles ARE your troubles, even if you don't realize it. Abusive policing should be troubling to anyone.

Yes and yes. Wasn't me that went out to create a rioting evil that takes attention away from the misconduct of the cops. Having said that, in a city of over a million people, it's not the cops that keep my head on a swivel.

58 posted on 04/26/2015 7:41:57 AM PDT by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
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To: RayChuang88

“The African-American community is hurting their own cause by debacles like what happened last night.”......

And odumbo says narry a word about calming the street rats down. He wants those riots to continue, even worse, to escalate into a civil war. He thirsts for the time when he can declare Marshal Law and appoint himself emperor.

Words cannot describe the distain I have for that petulant bastard.


59 posted on 04/26/2015 7:42:20 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: BenLurkin

“A Man has his neck snapped....”

I would like to see the autopsy report on this. I’ve watched several videos of this. Initial reports said that three neck vertebrae had been broken. If that is true, then either the cops did something much worse than just holding him down, or the guy had some kind of serious osteoporosis.

Chronic pot use and osteoporosis:
http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.background-resource.php?resourceID=184


60 posted on 04/26/2015 7:49:21 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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