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The Baltimore Police Union is demanding public records of radio transmissions and email notifications to prove the leadership in the Baltimore Police Department, specifically Police Chief Batts, told officers NOT to stop the riots and looting. Facing the probability the police union is going to succeed in their endeavor to put sunlight upon the truth the Mayor, Police Chief Batts and his leadership team are now having to admit they did tell the officers to ‘stand down’. You can listen to some of the audio transmission here. ...and questions have been raised about why Mayor Rawlings-Blake and Chief Batts would...

During a Baltimore-based radio talk show on Thursday, a man who identified himself as a Baltimore police officer named “Jeff” called into the program and said fellow police officers were organizing to push out the city’s mayor. “There is right now over 50 of us officers who are immediately asking for [Baltimore Mayor] Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to step down for what she did to us Monday,” the caller told WBAL radio host Derek Hunter. The Baltimore mayor has denied giving “stand down” orders and blamed the media for misinterpreting her comments about providing “a space” for protesters to loot. “Any other...

RUSH: Remember after Toya Graham went out there and now, as they're saying, "beat" her son upside the head when she saw him rioting? Remember the police commissioner, Anthony Batts said, "More mothers should be like Toya Graham." In fact, do you remember on Monday? I made a big deal here out of telling you -- and I played the sound bites for you -- of all the people that are focusing on the children and how parents need to get better control of their kids, it's up to the parents. You had the police chief saying so, the mayor...

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is not an easy person to take seriously, but her decision to give space to those “who wished to destroy” has at least made her interesting.Her office says she was misunderstood regarding her alarming “space to destroy” remark. However, it has been revealed that she did order police to stand down so that the rioters could destroy her city: Despite a firm denial by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, a senior law enforcement source charges that she gave an order for police to stand down as riots broke out Monday night, raising more questions about whether some...

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake denies a report by Fox News that she gave a stand down order to her city’s police department on the days riots broke out over the death of Freddie Gray. Rawlings-Blake defended her actions — as well as Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s decision to not be overly “aggressive” towards rioters — on Saturday and Monday as not a stand down but an appropriate response for the time.“The situation on the ground when you are engaged in an incident is a lot different than what you can see or experience on television. Officers are doing an amazing...

Sr. Law Enforcement Official: Baltimore Mayor Said “Let the Protesters Loot, It’s Only Property”A senior Baltimore law enforcement official said the mayor told police officials,“Let them loot. It’s only property.” Via Your World with Neil Cavuto:

According to a senior law enforcement source, the embattled mayor effectively told her officers to do nothing as the city began to burn - raising questions as to whether the rioting could have been stopped. Asked by Fox News if the mayor was responsible for the order, the source said, 'You are God damn right it was.'