Posted on 04/28/2015 6:21:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
One Baltimore mother was caught on video dragging out her son who was taking part in the Baltimore riots.
The unnamed mother was shown on television smacking her son — who was dressed all in black — for taking part in the riots against police and businesses Monday afternoon and dragging him away.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts even acknowledged the mother’s actions during a press conference early Tuesday morning.
“And if you saw in one scene, you had one a mother who grabbed their child who had a hood on his head and she started smacking him on the head because she was so embarrassed. I wish I had more parents who took charge of their kids tonight,” Batts said.
National Guard troops fanned out through the city, shield-bearing police officers blocked the streets and firefighters doused still-simmering blazes early Tuesday as a growing area of Baltimore shuddered from riots following the funeral of a black man who died in police custody.
The violence that started in West Baltimore on Monday afternoon — within a mile of where Freddie Gray was arrested and placed into a police van earlier this month — had by midnight spread to East Baltimore and neighborhoods close to downtown and near the baseball stadium.
It was one of the most volatile outbreaks of violence prompted by a police-involved death since the days of protests that followed the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black man who was shot and killed during a confrontation with a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer.
At least 15 officers were hurt, including six who remained hospitalized late Monday, police said. Two dozen people were arrested.
State and local authorities pledged to restore order and calm to Baltimore, but quickly found themselves responding to questions about whether their initial responses had been adequate.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was asked why she waited hours to ask the governor to declare a state of emergency, while the governor himself hinted she should have come to him earlier.
“We were all in the command center in the second floor of the State House in constant communication, and we were trying to get in touch with the mayor for quite some time,” Gov. Larry Hogan told a Monday evening news conference. “She finally made that call, and we immediately took action.”
Asked if the mayor should have called for help sooner, however, Hogan replied that he didn’t want to question what Baltimore officials were doing: “They’re all under tremendous stress. We’re all on one team.”
Rawlings-Blake said officials believed they had gotten the unrest that had erupted over the weekend under control “and I think it would have been inappropriate to bring in the National Guard when we had it under control.”
But later on, Batts made it clear events had become unmanageable. “They just outnumbered us and outflanked us,” Batts said. “We needed to have more resources out there.”
Batts said authorities had had a “very trying and disappointing day.”
Police certainly had their work cut out for them: The rioters set police cars and buildings on fire in several neighborhoods, looted a mall and liquor stores and threw rocks at police with riot gear who responded occasionally with pepper spray.
“I understand anger, but what we’re seeing isn’t anger,” Rawlings-Blake said. “It’s disruption of a community. The same community they say they care about, they’re destroying. You can’t have it both ways.”
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, in her first day on the job, said she would send Justice Department officials to the city in coming days. A weeklong, daily curfew was imposed beginning Tuesday from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., the mayor said, and Baltimore public schools announced they would be closed Tuesday.
Maj. Gen. Linda Singh, adjutant general of the Maryland National Guard, said up to 5,000 troops would be available for Baltimore’s streets.
“We are going to be out in massive force, and that just means basically that we are going to be patrolling the streets and out to ensure that we are protecting property,” Singh said at a news conference Monday night.
Singh said they will be acting at the direction of Baltimore police.
Col. William Pallozzi, the superintendent of the state police, said a request for up to 500 additional law enforcement personnel in Maryland had been sent. Pallozzi added that the state is putting out a request for up to 5,000 more law enforcement personnel from around the mid-Atlantic region.
Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings and about 200 others, including ministers, tried unsuccessfully to quell the violence at one point Monday night, marching arm-in-arm through a neighborhood littered with broken glass, flattened aluminum cans and other debris. As they got close to a line of police officers, the marchers went down on their knees. They then rose to their feet and walked until they were face-to-face with the police officers in a tight formation and wearing riot gear.
But the violence continued, with looters later setting a liquor store on fire and throwing cinder blocks at fire trucks as firefighters labored to put out the blazes.
Monday’s riot was the latest flare-up over the death of Gray and came amid a national debate over police use of force following the high-profile deaths of several black men in encounters with police — from the Brown death in Ferguson to the deaths of Eric Garner in New York and Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina.
Gray was black. Police have declined to specify the races of the six officers involved in his arrest, all of whom have been suspended with pay while they are under investigation.
While they are angry about what happened to Gray, his family said riots are not the answer.
“I think the violence is wrong,” Gray’s twin sister, Fredericka Gray, said late Monday. “I don’t like it at all.”
The attorney for Gray’s family, Billy Murphy, said the family had hoped to organize a peace march later in the week.
Hours before the riots began Monday, mourners filled the 2,500-capacity New Shiloh Baptist church to attend Freddie Gray’s funeral.
Gray was arrested on April 12 after making eye contact with officers and then running away, police said. He was held down, handcuffed and loaded into a van without a seat belt. Leg cuffs were put on him when he became irate inside.
He asked for medical help several times even before being put in the van, but paramedics were not called until after a 30-minute ride. Police have acknowledged he should have received medical attention on the spot where he was arrested, but they have not said how he suffered a serious spine injury. He died April 19.
Where was his father?
Damn those evil InterWebs! Ruined that kid’s schtick with all his homies.
It takes less than a minute to search for a non-infested link IMO. Gypping for clicks is why these sites host the links like they ‘discovered’ it all.
Ad Block Plus blocked 16 pop-ups, so I used the YT link.
Well.....there are probably a number of answers to that. I am, however, encouraged to see a mother who knows her son is up to no good and is willing to do something about it. Frankly, I wish there were more like her.
She’s in talks with the Dallas Cowboys to be their new Pass Rusher....................
take your pick:
1. In prison
2. In the grave
3. In the riot
4. Who?
I’m not going to spoil the buzz about her but it’ isn’t his mother? It’s gone International as i knew it would when first it hit the net.... Uk has it all over the place....but she is not his mom....
Fox hedged on it a bit this morning saying she wasn’t...but the story is so good they simply let it slide and said it didn’t matter who she was....
I suspect we’ll get the real story in time...of what relationship she has to him..or if some said she was simply upset the kid threw something at an officer and tore after him. MAybe she was his moms neighbor or something...we’ll learn in time.
CW
Funny, I was just going to say that within 1 week she will be investigated by Child Protective Services and most likely prosecuted for abuse of a child.
She could use the defense -”It takes a village”
Where was his father?
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I appreciate your sentiments but at least this woman represents some hope in a demented world. I think it was a very powerful little video.She was obviously not more than a child when she had him and part of the sad cycle that liberal entitlement programs and politicians have set in place. I would guess that she and her son will be a part of the solution rather than the ongoing problem. At least I’ll be hoping and praying for that.
Hi. I was an abusive mother. When he was about 6, our youngest son watched that Bing Crosby movie where the nun teaches the kid to defend himself. Son and I spent a lot of time, at his insistence, practicing that scene.
And all that practice came in handy when he was a teen..and fully a foot taller than I. Oh, were we fighting because I had to haul his ass out of a riot? No. Was he looting? Hell no. He decided he wasn’t going to school, or he decided he’d go on walkabout for a few days, without letting me know where he was.
So, yep, it would get physical and yes, I started it every time..with an attempt to slap his face. He’d block, we’d both get that “it’s on!” look in our eyes, start laughing, and then start swinging. It always ended with laughs.
My point is this: if more parents weren’t so afraid of CPS, or too lazy to get off their asses, maybe the kids today would be a little better behaved.
I vote for this mom to be Time’s Person of the Year!
(oh, and before you purists start in, yes, “the father was in the home”. My husband, however, was not allowed, permitted, downright banned from hitting our kids. He could have really hurt someone. Me..I’m like a fly that needs swatting but won’t go away!)
If mom was so influential what was her kid doing out there in the first place?
Again, where is his father?
Just one mother out of thousands....................
I agree with you. I would also vote for her as Person of the Year! If parents got involved with parenting none of this would be happening.
“Walkin’ the dog”...
That’s a good one...it won;t matter anyway....if this goes viral...she and the boy will get $$$$$$
Would have been better if it had been the father that administrated the beatdown.
.....assuming he has one.
MAybe she didn’t know...she was working and somebody texted her they saw her son...just saying.
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