Is SDS out there rioting in the streets?

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http://live.baltimoresun.com/Event/Latest_updates_from_the_Freddie_Gray_case_in_Baltimore

[mead107]

I hope he and his family are away from the problem area and all safe.

[Wacka]

Unless he lives in the ghetto, he is safe.

[meazza]

I hope McNutty is safe

[meazza]

[ExiledInIllinois]

"...Nearby, they looted a CVS drug store..."

 

Head west with the mobile meth kit... That's where the Breaking Bad money is!

 

 

 

 

[DC Tom]

Looting in Bolton Hill...no police in sight.

 

 

Isn't that what they want? No cops? How's that working out?

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

He's not of the proper cultural alignment to have the right to burn his own neighborhood down.

[MarkAF43]

Looting in Bolton Hill...no police in sight.

 

 

Isn't that what they want? No cops? How's that working out?

 

 

Someone will file a lawsuit saying the police aren't protecting them and keeping the streets safe.

[Tiberius]

Just pathetic.

[B-Man]

Baltimore descends into chaos, violence, looting

Baltimore Sun, by Kevin Rector*

 

Original Article

 

 

 

 

 

Baltimore riots: State of emergency declared, National Guard activated

Washington Times, by Andrea Noble

 

Original Article

 

 

 

 

 

 

White House awakes to ´national crisis´

Politico, by Edward-Isaac Dovere

 

Original Article

 

 

The days of appointing a Task Force as whitewash are over.

 

 

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[IDBillzFan]

 

White House awakes to ´national crisis´

Politico, by Edward-Isaac Dovere

 

Original Article

 

 

The days of appointing a Task Force as whitewash are over.

 

Gee, ya think?

 

I'll never understand why people are still surprised to find all the failure that comes from electing as president a man who has never run anything in his life, and whose answer to most everything is "Let's have a meeting."

[Tiberius]

 

Gee, ya think?

 

I'll never understand why people are still surprised to find all the failure that comes from electing as president a man who has never run anything in his life, and whose answer to most everything is "Let's have a meeting."

Still, a pretty good president

[IDBillzFan]

Still, a pretty good president

 

You keep telling yourself that, Skippy. It's worked so well for you to this point.

[Nanker]

I'm standing up and laying the blame for this squarely on the police in Baltimore until they provide evidence to the contrary.

 

They apparently killed a young man for the crime of making eye contact with a policeman. He rode away on his bicycle and was later videotaped being trundled into the back of a police van by the half dozen cops who chased him. He couldn't walk at that point. When he left that van - in police custody- his neck was broken to the point that his spinal chord was nearly completely severed.

 

To date more than a week after he died the Baltimore cops have not made a statement about how someone in their care and protection ended up dead. This is all on them. They lit a fuse and the bomb that went off is one they own along with the ensuing mayhem.

 

This cowardice in the face of the public is damnable. I don't condone the violence but what they apparently did to that young man is reprehensible. I usually side with the police in matters like this but they have to provide evidence about how this young man suffered his horrific fatal injury. So far they're mum and the riots are simply a distraction.

[Dante]

Still, a pretty good president

LOL he could have nipped this thing in the bud. He could have simply said this is a police problem mistreating all Americans. Whites are killed by police by a 2-1 margin. But he would never do that. Listen to what he says in these situations . First thing he does is condemn the violence. Following that he will always have a kind of nuanced statement kind of justifying the violence. He is a prick.He loves whats going on now. Disarray and chaos. A leftists wet dream. The animals rebelling against the civil society

 

haha here he is. Right on queue. He's so predictable.

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/04/28/obama-police-treatment-of-african-americans-a-slow-rolling-crisis/

 

And again! Wow he's really looking to stir up shite! He has to be the most evil sob ever in the WH. I wonder if it ever occurred to him that all these problems seem to happen in liberal controlled urban crap holes? Maybe he should be looking at crappy leadership in those cities.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/28/obama-on-baltimore-republican-congress-wont-invest-in-urban-communities/

Edited April 28, 2015 by Dante

[B-Man]

The Orioles and White Sox will play in front of an empty stadium

 

Due to the civil unrest in Baltimore, Wednesday's Orioles/White Sox game will be closed to the public.

 

http://www.sbnation.com/2015/4/28/8509691/orioles-white-sox-games-cancelled-closed-to-public

 

 

 

 

Baltimore Riots Explode Leftist Race Myths

by Ben Shapiro

 

Baltimore’s riots have prompted a state of emergency in the city, as well as the calling of the National Guard. But the riots should also demonstrate conclusively that leftist myths about what drives race riots are just that: myths. It turns out that all the excuses given for the riots in Ferguson simply do not apply to the situation in Baltimore.

 

The “White Police” Myth. As rioters tore up Ferguson last year in the aftermath of the justifiable shooting of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson, media members rushed to explain that the disproportionate whiteness of the police force was to blame. Media outlet after media outlet after media outlet after media outlet blamed the unrest on the failure of the police department to reflect the community. But as of 2010, “Half of the sworn command staff are minorities,” according to the Baltimore Sun. And in Baltimore County, 55 percent of new applicants to the police department are minority, a number the police department has been attempting to boost. Racially reflecting the community, in other words, doesn’t seem to be helping.

 

The “Evil Police Chief” Myth. In Ferguson, the media targeted as its chosen villain Chief Thomas Jackson, who is white. After the Department of Justice found that the Ferguson Police Department had serious racial problems thanks in part to its disproportionate whiteness, Jackson stepped down. Media found Jackson particularly galling because Jackson released footage of Michael Brown strong-arm robbing a convenience store minutes before his confrontation with Wilson. It is difficult to blame the riots in Baltimore on similar circumstances. The police chief, Anthony Batts, who is black, said in February that crime should be addressed “through social justice as a whole,” and added that “Leadership should be focused not just on crime-fighting, but tackling racism.” He then stated, “When I go to Baltimore, on the East Coast, I’m dealing with 1950s-level black-and-white racism.”

 

The “Evil Mayor” Myth. As Ferguson burned, media focused in on Ferguson Mayor James Knowles, a white man. They suggested that Knowles didn’t understand his own community thanks to his race, exacerbating racial tensions. He’s currently at risk of recall. The same is not true in Baltimore, where Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake runs the show. Rawlings-Blake, who is black, said a month ago, “To this day, if I go out with a mixed crowd, people are automatically suspicious, questioning: ‘How do you know this person?’ We have a long way to go…Baltimore, like many other cities, still faces the challenges of racism.” As the riots spun out of control, she infamously commented, “It’s a very delicate balancing act, because, while we tried to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.” That didn’t stop the riots.

 

The “Disproportionate White Power Structure Myth.” The nation watched the recent local elections in Ferguson, Missouri, of the City Council with baited breath. That’s because the media suggested that the power structure in Ferguson, being disproportionately white, had somehow contributed to shadowy racism within the city. The Washington Post complained, “while Ferguson is 67 percent black, five of the six council members and the mayor are all white.” Not so in Baltimore, where the nine of the 15 council members are black. The mayor is black. The police chief is black. Baltimore burns anyway.

 

 

The “Not Enough Government” Myth. In Ferguson, the media and governmental actors suggested that lack of governmental intervention led to the riots. Education Secretary Arne Duncan wrote an open letter in December 2014 suggesting just that:

We should take away from Ferguson that we need a conversation to rebuild those relationships, throughout the country, and that need is urgent. It needs to involve everyone – our young people, our parents, our schools, our faith communities, our government officials, and the police. It needs to happen now.

 

 

Lack of government is not the problem in Baltimore. Every single member of the Baltimore City Council is a Democrat. All 15 of them. The mayor is a Democrat. Baltimore has not had a Republican mayor since 1967. The tax rates in Baltimore are astronomical; the city carries the fourth highest tax rate of any city in the nation. The poverty rate within the city is nearly 25 percent. Households in Baltimore earn approximately 56 percent of the overall state average. Crime rates, of course, are out of control.

 

Modern race riots do not occur because of the supposed white superstructure or a legacy of governmental underservice. They occur because valueless rioters act in valueless ways. Baltimore is evidence that glossing over lack of values with leftist pabulum about social justice doesn’t stop cities from burning.

 

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/28/baltimore-riots-explode-leftist-race-myths/

 

 

 

 

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[Deranged Rhino]

I'm standing up and laying the blame for this squarely on the police in Baltimore until they provide evidence to the contrary.

 

They apparently killed a young man for the crime of making eye contact with a policeman. He rode away on his bicycle and was later videotaped being trundled into the back of a police van by the half dozen cops who chased him. He couldn't walk at that point. When he left that van - in police custody- his neck was broken to the point that his spinal chord was nearly completely severed.

 

To date more than a week after he died the Baltimore cops have not made a statement about how someone in their care and protection ended up dead. This is all on them. They lit a fuse and the bomb that went off is one they own along with the ensuing mayhem.

 

This cowardice in the face of the public is damnable. I don't condone the violence but what they apparently did to that young man is reprehensible. I usually side with the police in matters like this but they have to provide evidence about how this young man suffered his horrific fatal injury. So far they're mum and the riots are simply a distraction.

 

David Simon, creator of the WIRE, chimes in on Baltimore, capitalism, and Marx.

 

 

 

From this moment forward unless we reverse course, the average human being is worth less on planet Earth. Unless we take stock of the fact that maybe socialism and the socialist impulse has to be addressed again; it has to be married as it was married in the 1930s, the 1940s and even into the 1950s, to the engine that is capitalism.

Mistaking capitalism for a blueprint as to how to build a society strikes me as a really dangerous idea in a bad way. Capitalism is a remarkable engine again for producing wealth. It's a great tool to have in your toolbox if you're trying to build a society and have that society advance. You wouldn't want to go forward at this point without it. But it's not a blueprint for how to build the just society. There are other metrics besides that quarterly profit report.

The idea that the market will solve such things as environmental concerns, as our racial divides, as our class distinctions, our problems with educating and incorporating one generation of workers into the economy after the other when that economy is changing; the idea that the market is going to heed all of the human concerns and still maximise profit is juvenile. It's a juvenile notion and it's still being argued in my country passionately and we're going down the tubes. And it terrifies me because I'm astonished at how comfortable we are in absolving ourselves of what is basically a moral choice. Are we all in this together or are we all not?

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/08/david-simon-capitalism-marx-two-americas-wire

Edited April 28, 2015 by GreggyT

[Dante]

 

David Simon, creator of the WIRE, chimes in on Baltimore, capitalism, and Marx.

 

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/08/david-simon-capitalism-marx-two-americas-wire

Breaking news. A Hollywood elitist has disdain for Capitalism! Why is this guys opinion relevant? He created a TV show. Whoop d do.

[DC Tom]

To date more than a week after he died the Baltimore cops have not made a statement about how someone in their care and protection ended up dead. This is all on them. They lit a fuse and the bomb that went off is one they own along with the ensuing mayhem.

 

You do know that 1) there's an investigation ongoing, 2) the investigation is being stonewalled by the police union, and 3) regardless, all the officers involved have been suspended without pay over this?

 

In fact, regarding the union, under the terms of the CBA the officers involved aren't even free to contribute their statements to the investigation until tomorrow or Thursday (ten days). Until then, there's really no statement the BPD can make.

 

It's not like the city government and police department is sitting on its collective ass and hoping they can sweep this under the rug. They are pretty much hamstrung in what they can do or say until the end of the week.