15 officers injured at the moment, two hospitalized.
The rioters actually hurt the cause. People are pretty rightfully siding with the police today. The meaning of the protests are now watered down by forced association with a group of criminals. Robbing two liquor stores, a mall, a cell phone store, a CVS, and the small shops on Main Streets doesn't further people's disgust with police brutality. The rioters just gave the police a good press day, and justification of their presence.
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At least when its compared with Fergusson the other US riot they aren't over armed
Still a messy situation though with the curfews added and a 5 day monitoring it will be interesting to see how this turns out.
True and I don't remember how many cops were hurt during Ferguson but there's 7 of them that are injured now, including one that is unconscious. Who knows what tonight's tally will be on either side. Keep in mind, one side got free/looted booze via the CVS and are likely having a night on the town while the other is on overtime trying to keep the peace. Still a messy situation though with the curfews added and a 5 day monitoring it will be interesting to see how this turns out.
At least when its compared with Fergusson the other US riot they aren't over armed
Still a messy situation though with the curfews added and a 5 day monitoring it will be interesting to see how this turns out.
Still a messy situation though with the curfews added and a 5 day monitoring it will be interesting to see how this turns out.
Reporters are also being attacked by the cops
A photographer for Reuters was detained and another for the Baltimore City Paper was thrown to the ground by Baltimore Police officers while covering protests over police brutality late Saturday, they said.
J.M. Giordano, the photo editor at City Paper, said he was hit in the head with multiple police shields had his "face pretty much smushed down on the ground," and sustained multiple bruises after several officers rushed at him as he shot pictures.
"They just took me down," he said.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-protest-journalists-20150426-story.html
A photographer for Reuters was detained and another for the Baltimore City Paper was thrown to the ground by Baltimore Police officers while covering protests over police brutality late Saturday, they said.
J.M. Giordano, the photo editor at City Paper, said he was hit in the head with multiple police shields had his "face pretty much smushed down on the ground," and sustained multiple bruises after several officers rushed at him as he shot pictures.
"They just took me down," he said.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-protest-journalists-20150426-story.html
RT Reporter Robbed by Youths On-Air While Covering Baltimore Protests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd2Ibw7wrvs
Short clip of Baltimore's youth robbing a Russia Today reporter, can't believe the reporter was attempting to run after these animals. Sooka means bitch, btw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd2Ibw7wrvs
Short clip of Baltimore's youth robbing a Russia Today reporter, can't believe the reporter was attempting to run after these animals. Sooka means bitch, btw.
Im really close to Baltimore, so watching the local news. Watching the massive fires and apparently reports of groups of masked gunman outside Johns Hopkins. Taking everything with a grain of salt of course, but you can't alter the footage of people looting, beating others, and the quarter square mile fires ( apparently it's a bunch of Apartment complexes)
Baltimore has been a repressed tinderbox shithole since mayor Rawlings Blake took over. Before she was the mayor Baltimore was named the murder capitol of the world. She cleaned up the streets substantially but that involved a major increase in the police force and a blind eye to some really shady stuff (apparently Baltimore has the 2nd largest police force in the states). I've never had a problem with Baltimore police, as they are always too busy busting people for crack dealing to bother with petty crimes, but apparently their methods are controversial at best.
That said, not everyone in Baltimore is bad, not all of the cops are either, it's a reallllll tough job. But this is about 6 years overdue.
Baltimore has been a repressed tinderbox shithole since mayor Rawlings Blake took over. Before she was the mayor Baltimore was named the murder capitol of the world. She cleaned up the streets substantially but that involved a major increase in the police force and a blind eye to some really shady stuff (apparently Baltimore has the 2nd largest police force in the states). I've never had a problem with Baltimore police, as they are always too busy busting people for crack dealing to bother with petty crimes, but apparently their methods are controversial at best.
That said, not everyone in Baltimore is bad, not all of the cops are either, it's a reallllll tough job. But this is about 6 years overdue.
Gov. declares state of emergency; activates National Guard
BALTIMORE —Gov. Larry Hogan signed an executive order Monday declaring a state of emergency and activating the National Guard.
Police officers were injured, stores were looted and fires were set Monday evening as vandals ran through Baltimore.
City police say as many as seven officers have been injured Monday afternoon in northwest Baltimore, where a large group of juveniles converged and began to throw bricks and other items at officers. The officers were injured with broken bones and cuts, and one was unresponsive.
The CVS store at North and Pennsylvania avenues was set on fire around 6:15 p.m. Police have asked motorists to avoid the area of North Avenue between Monroe Street and Druid Hill Avenue.
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More...http://www.wbaltv.com/news/downtown-businesses-organizations-close-early-monday/32595778
BALTIMORE —Gov. Larry Hogan signed an executive order Monday declaring a state of emergency and activating the National Guard.
Police officers were injured, stores were looted and fires were set Monday evening as vandals ran through Baltimore.
City police say as many as seven officers have been injured Monday afternoon in northwest Baltimore, where a large group of juveniles converged and began to throw bricks and other items at officers. The officers were injured with broken bones and cuts, and one was unresponsive.
The CVS store at North and Pennsylvania avenues was set on fire around 6:15 p.m. Police have asked motorists to avoid the area of North Avenue between Monroe Street and Druid Hill Avenue.
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More...http://www.wbaltv.com/news/downtown-businesses-organizations-close-early-monday/32595778
On April 26, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and 25 local clergy called for peace.
Rawlings-Blake held a press conference in which she admitted to asking the police to give people a space to "destroy," noted Fusion.net (video below).
Rawlings-Blake stated:
"And I've made it very clear that I worked 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. It's a very delicate balancing act because while we try to make sure that they were protected from the cars, and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wish to destroy, space to do that as well. And we work very hard to keep that balance, and to put ourselves in the best position to de-escalate and that's what you saw."
More...http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/crime/baltimore-mayor-we-gave-those-who-wished-destroy-space-do-video
Clearly the mayor is a sympathizer to those in the streets and has kept the police in check. If you're watching news footage of the events unfolding you'll see the police lined up blocks away in front of the peaceful protest that is taking place at the junction where the CVS building was looted and burned earlier and the miscreant hoodlums are down the street looting other building and causing mayhem knowing the police are occupied a half mile away. just sayin. Democratic, urban areas are so pleasant do business and be happy in.
Rawlings-Blake held a press conference in which she admitted to asking the police to give people a space to "destroy," noted Fusion.net (video below).
Rawlings-Blake stated:
"And I've made it very clear that I worked 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. It's a very delicate balancing act because while we try to make sure that they were protected from the cars, and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wish to destroy, space to do that as well. And we work very hard to keep that balance, and to put ourselves in the best position to de-escalate and that's what you saw."
More...http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/crime/baltimore-mayor-we-gave-those-who-wished-destroy-space-do-video
Clearly the mayor is a sympathizer to those in the streets and has kept the police in check. If you're watching news footage of the events unfolding you'll see the police lined up blocks away in front of the peaceful protest that is taking place at the junction where the CVS building was looted and burned earlier and the miscreant hoodlums are down the street looting other building and causing mayhem knowing the police are occupied a half mile away. just sayin. Democratic, urban areas are so pleasant do business and be happy in.
"Gun control" is working in Baltimore, keeping all law-abiding, sober, mentally-sound victims defenseless so rioters are safe.
Today and last night is the result of the police mishandling someone they arrested, not getting them immediate medical help, then the due dying. Predictably, many people around the area w/ the same skin color act as though they knew the guy and start doing their usual protesting that inevitably gets taken over by the small and feeble minded, in this case the ghettoheads. The police screwed up but this kind of 'protesting' needs to be rooted out by the respectable members of the neighborhood.
In Oct 2013 a young woman with a child bumped a concrete divider near a D.C. attraction.
The police got excited.
She panicked and tried to flee.
The police filled her car with bullets.
When they finally stopped shooting she had several bullet holes in her back.
The baby that was in the car with her was not hit.
The mainstream media started by headlining "Police Rescue Baby".
When that became too absurd even for Americans they switched to " Possible Suicide Bomber Killed In D.C."
The young lady had lived in Bed Stuy and Baltimore, both places you don't stop for strangers with guns and badges don't really tell you if a person is friendly.
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Then today Baltimore http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10354477/Woman-shot-dead-after-trying-to-ram-security-barrier-at-White-House.html
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Any connection or coincidence?
The police got excited.
She panicked and tried to flee.
The police filled her car with bullets.
When they finally stopped shooting she had several bullet holes in her back.
The baby that was in the car with her was not hit.
The mainstream media started by headlining "Police Rescue Baby".
When that became too absurd even for Americans they switched to " Possible Suicide Bomber Killed In D.C."
The young lady had lived in Bed Stuy and Baltimore, both places you don't stop for strangers with guns and badges don't really tell you if a person is friendly.
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Then today Baltimore http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10354477/Woman-shot-dead-after-trying-to-ram-security-barrier-at-White-House.html
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Any connection or coincidence?
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