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Crisis mediation group plans to open up sites in Baltimore after first Freddie Gray case verdict
Baltimore Sun ^ | December 16, 2015

Posted on 12/16/2015 11:24:34 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

A crisis mediation group plans to open up several sites around Baltimore after the verdict is announced in the first trial of a police officer charged in Freddie Gray's arrest and death.

Changa Onyango, director of Community Mediation Baltimore, said he has about 75 mediators in the city who plan to set up sites indoors where people can come and express their opinions safely. He said the "emotional energy" of people gathering outside in West Baltimore in April contributed to sparking the riots. His team is going over several options to help people express themselves, including setting up open mics.

Having people gather outside, "just made some of the trouble that happened inevitable," he said. "The whole point is to keep them from being outside."

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: riots
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They will burn those 75 centers.
21 posted on 12/16/2015 12:01:44 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: Ray76

Sad, but not a joke. It is the reality of treating the blacks like children and expecting them to behave like and as adults.
The announcement to have these “mediation groups” is as bad as the mayor saying “give them room to vandalize.”


22 posted on 12/16/2015 12:05:57 PM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: butlerweave

Good point. Intimidation pf the jury/judicial process by the mob outside threatening to destroy private property.
Don’t even need a rope.


23 posted on 12/16/2015 12:09:02 PM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: Ray76

How about opening some prison camps around town.


24 posted on 12/16/2015 12:09:26 PM PST by armydawg505
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To: armydawg505
How about opening some prison camps around town.

I hear FEMA's got some waiting. But they're meant for Patriots, not rioters!

25 posted on 12/16/2015 12:13:37 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: armydawg505
How about opening some prison camps around town.

How about a tent camp just outside Lewiston, Maine?

26 posted on 12/16/2015 12:15:49 PM PST by TYVets
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To: lurk

I like it, lurk. Keep it simple.


27 posted on 12/16/2015 12:17:45 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: bboop

“Changa Onyango,”

I stopped there.


28 posted on 12/16/2015 12:19:56 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Jews for Cruz)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dead Locked on all 4 counts


29 posted on 12/16/2015 12:20:13 PM PST by TYVets
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To: T-Bone Texan

“The arc of our culture and nation is being dictated by the most savage and least able of society.”

How timely. The libs aren’t just weighing us down with this crap on a racial basis.

They just papered over the windows of our office doors because new ADA codes state that windows in office doors must be low enough for those in a wheel chair to see through or cannot exist.

So we are replacing our doors.

Let’s lower all bars to the least able among us.


30 posted on 12/16/2015 12:21:16 PM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: Fido969

space to loot and pillage.


31 posted on 12/16/2015 12:29:18 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Where were all the mediation sites giving dissenters
a chance to express their emotion about the OJ Simpson trial?


32 posted on 12/16/2015 12:34:09 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: ConservativeWarrior
Let’s lower all bars to the least able among us.

That's a good explanation of Hillary's appeal to progressives.

33 posted on 12/16/2015 12:35:37 PM PST by Senator_Blutarski
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To: Mears

Imagine life today in the US if only
we’d picked our own damned cotton.


34 posted on 12/16/2015 12:36:20 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: sparklite2

I wonder about that scenario.

Economically, we would be SLIGHTLY retarded in our growth over the last few hundred years, but on the flip side, social programs would not exist, crime would be a lot lower, and my kids could use the local park without being beaten and robbed.


35 posted on 12/16/2015 12:57:18 PM PST by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: TYVets

Maine is a good idea but Lewiston is way too far south.
I’m fairly sure there is ample surplus housing on Eagle Lake.
Thoreau country, up where the water runs both ways.

Caddis the Younger


36 posted on 12/16/2015 1:01:48 PM PST by palmerizedCaddis (I'm not sure if Obama is worse than Carter, just that Barry is a lot dumber.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


37 posted on 12/16/2015 1:03:07 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Terrorism, the thing that shall not be named by the MSM)
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To: T-Bone Texan

Yes, the early loss to the economy would have been a drag ...
but ... think of what was spent and lost during the War Between the States. Without the slave question, would the have been a war? If not...


38 posted on 12/16/2015 1:06:15 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: sparklite2

The hundreds of thousands of men who died in the War of Northern Aggression, on both sides, would likely go on to procreate had there not been a war.

I dunno the consequences of that scenario, just throwing it out there. Maybe WW1 and II would have ended sooner due to our increased manpower, who knows.


39 posted on 12/16/2015 2:21:03 PM PST by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: Old Sarge
How about setting up bait stations, stocked with sneakers and liquor?

That's what I was thinking. Open bar, not open mike.

40 posted on 12/16/2015 2:55:45 PM PST by JoeFromSidney (,)
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