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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“.. the regular folks are creating the atmosphere for the agitators to take advantage”.
I disagree. The regular folks were protesting civilly. That is a Constitutional protection. They were civil, compliant, and well behaved. IMHO.. we have to look at the CLEAR picture of who did what. For example, years ago.. I was at the Tea Party Rally in D.C. It was civil. Say, for example, it was infiltrated by outsiders.. who did violence/burned stuff/threw things at the police when it got dark. Would you say the Tea Partiers “created the atmosphere for the agitators to take advantage?” I am not about violence and I will not ever take the position that civil, peaceful protests should be eliminated for fear that some may take advantage.
RIbbit....Ribbit...Peace..Ribbit
a loose translation...from the French..
This guy is a good reporter and a friend of Free Republic.
He was showing a blow by blow description in real time on twitter as all this was unfolding.
He covered some of our Tea Party goings on a couple of years ago, and I spend some time talking to him.
Even though he was on a break at the time, in a bar having a beer, he was typing at breakneck speed as he was covering the events we were involved in.
He's brilliant—again big deal, the nit picking on a few grammatical mistakes doesn't justify dissing his excellent work.
Nothing better than to have a conservative covering something like this in real time.Fans advised to "exercise caution" and stay on Howard Street corridor.
#BlackLivesMatter#riots 3 retweets 3 favoritesPolice helicopter lying over stadium right now pic.twitter.com/HI1WYxR6Yq
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Stadium is still mostly full. Gotta be at least 15k people in here right now. All under forcible lockdown due to
#BlackLivesMatter violence 32 retweets 5 favoritesFrom inside Orioles stadium mayor of Baltimore has forcibly decided to keep everyone locked in stadium due to riots outside 46 retweets 17 favorites
Blood in the streets in the town of Baltimore...
There is text in the transcript of the Bill Whittle opinion piece I posted that I wholly agree with, and applies 100% if the name of Freddie Gray is substituted for Michael Brown. Bill Whittle said: "..."Critics will say that I am using these statistics to justify the murder of Michael Brown. But I said at the beginning – if Michael Brown were shot in cold blood then the police officer needs to pay the price for murder. This has nothing to do with Michael Brown. This has EVERYTHING to do with the narrative that the President, the Attorney General, and all of these race hustlers are trying to create using Michael Brown..."
The fact that Michael Brown got exactly what he deserved and Freddie Gray seems to be a victim of undeserved, deliberate actions of police aside, it still carries the same weight. If the police were responsible, they should pay for their actions, period.
But that has no bearing whatsoever on what has been going on in Baltimore. The fact that there are people who want to see this violence take place has everything to do with it.
Anyone who thinks what happened to this man is okay isn't a voice we need to hear. But the same is true for anyone who blames the violence taking place on the actions of the police.
Those people are there for one thing, and one thing only, To “f—k s—t up!”
He’s reaching a bit but then again that keeps him out of range.
The problem is that some people are blaming “outsiders” for causing this violence, and that misses the mark, because a large proportion of those peaceful protestors are making common cause with the racial agitators who enable and promote the violence.
I don’t know anything about people being bussed in to cause the violence, it could be true for all I know. But I also know that the majority of people causing violence, damaging cars, throwing object through windows and so on, especially the kids like the ones who attacked and robbed the stupid Russian news people, are not people bussed in.
Do I think these professional agitators exist? Sure, and they encompass all racial representations. But I don’t think they are the root of the problem.
I think anyone who blames it all on professional agitators is being a “useful idiot”.
But he needs to know how bad grammar comes across. Don't use bad grammar in everyday speech, and you won't use it in your writing.
I will say it put me right into the action. He's a good reporter.
But he can watch his grammar!
That is true. However beating to death a now secured perp is a different matter entirely. When that is tolerated and accepted then the practice gradually spreads to anyone these cops feel deserves it. And that is a very slippery and dangerous slope. A lot of so called law abiding liberals think this would be perfectly acceptable treatment of a peaceful TEA Party demonstrator. Do you really want to head in that direction?
Yes, you are so right.
If you continue to resist, you need to be subdued. If you are in compliance, then no, they should stop the use of force. The problem many times is they are trying to subdue drunks and drug addicts who do not even know where they are. Know someone who was beaten up pretty bad by Long Beach Police over 10 years ago. He was drunk and being a menace. When a short police officer walked into his cell, he stated, so you come to take my lucky charms ? That was why he was beat up and he later realized he kinda deserved it. Police are humans after all.
Was Mr. Zimmerman an agent of the state?
Of course not. What is with your obsession with asking me about Zimmerman? This case has nothing to do with the Zimmerman case.
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