Old video footage shows the current president of the Maryland Senate referring to Baltimore as a “warzone” and a “ghetto” while the previous mayor, while taking a tour of a neighborhood, says: “Whoa, you can smell the rats.” Then-Mayor Catherine Pugh walked through part of the city with Fox 45 cameras in September 2018. At one point, Pugh looks at vacant homes in the area and tells people around her: “What the hell? We should just take all this [expletive] down.” “Whoa, you can smell the rats,” she soon adds. “Whew, Jesus. Oh, my God, you can smell the dead...
