Posted on 04/26/2015 5:54:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake made a stunning admission Saturday in the aftermath of violent protests over the recent death of Freddie Gray, saying she wanted to give space to those “who wished to destroy.”
And destroy, some did.
Numerous storefronts and vehicles were damaged and businesses were looted at the tail end of a day of demonstrations. Thirty-four people were arrested and six police officers suffered minor injuries. Baseball fans attending a game at Camden Yards were told to stay inside the ballpark until violence outside of the stadium subsided.
“I’ve made it very clear that I work with the police and instructed them to do everything that they could to make sure that the protesters were able to exercise their right to free speech,” Rawlings-Blake said during a press conference Saturday night.
“It’s a very delicate balancing act, because while we tried to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.”
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“And we worked very hard to keep that balance and to put ourselves in the best position to deescalate, and that’s what you saw.”
Protesters are upset because of the circumstance surrounding Gray’s death last Sunday. He was arrested on April 12, following a foot chase with police. At some point, he suffered a severe spin injury and died. Baltimore’s police commissioner admitted Friday police failed to provide Gray with medical care in a timely manner.
An email request for comment sent to two spokesmen for the Baltimore mayor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Stupid, stupid woman.
Why do we have this local news? I won’t bore you with the Iowa con crop. Please spare us this local news out east We don’t care!! Who is this guy? Never heard he did anything.
Black privilege.
Insurance companies have a case against the city administration for losses.
They sell insurance expecting and deserving police action against a mob waging war on property.
What idiot would sell property insurance in a failed, anarchic state?
This racist mayor should be in jail.
Baltimore is burning down burning down.. burning down,, my dummy Mayor.
What kind of leader gives a bunch of criminals space to destroy private and public property?
Well, it is Baltimore. One of America’s liberal cesspools.
Insurance companies won't dare press that case.
Attention any sane business owner, get out now. Close up shop, sell any assets you can and leave. The city has no intention of protecting you or your property for feral youth.
Who are the two thugs behind her?
Morons voting to elect fellow morons to office. Why any reasonable person would want to live in a DemoRat controlled city is beyond me.
Just like Africa ....
A delicate balancing act indeed. The only thing balanced was between looters and the cops. The mob was left free to pillage at will. Only after they had spent themselves were the police allowed to clean up the mess.
When my father, an honored minister, was murdered in Baltimore there was a tremendous outpouring of concern. We were clear that violence against the thugs who killed him would not be tolerated. In spite of the best efforts of some in the media to bring on a race riot there was not one single act of retribution. The police quickly apprehended the killers and they were brought to justice.
The mayor and many in the city worked through the next few years to support our family and the parishioners who had lost their best friend.
Leadership made all the difference. Today there is none.
Most if the damage they are doing during their riots appears to be in excess of $500, which is a felony IIRC. A real reader would instruct police to arrest as many of the people doing the damage and slap them with a felony vandalism and disturbing the peach charge.
Look at all the diversity in that photo.
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What about the rights of others...such as the rights of business owners to conduct their business without a bunch of thugs trashing, burning and looting it?
Liberalism is indeed a mental illness.
It’s also exactly what the Democrat governor of Missouri did...
I see some diversity with a TV camera. Wearing a grey baseball cap, directly behind the fountain of spraying glass.
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