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We can set our watches to their fuckery can’t we?
TWO CITIES
04.29.151:35 PM ET
White Baltimore Gets Troops, Black Baltimore Gets Same Old Cops
Politicians and reporters say last night was a success. The residents of Sandtown, where Freddie Gray died, know better.
BALTIMORE — When Elijah Cummings’s calm baritone came through a police bullhorn Tuesday night urging Baltimore residents to abide by a curfew and head home, young men in the street responded, “Fuck you!”
Cummings, a congressman and a stalwart of Baltimore’s black community generally seen as representative of the progress made by the 1960s civil rights movement, was viewed by some Tuesday night as just another agent of the state. Those same people were the ones who wrapped their faces in bandanas and defied a curfew, causing police to resort to pepper balls and tear gas to disperse the crowds.
Governor Larry Hogan even declared: “We’ve turned a corner,” before adding it’s not over.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/29/white-baltimore-gets-troops-black-baltimore-gets-cops-they-hate.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRrvsHIvQKA
Mama’s making the rounds and the righwingers are loving it!
Waiting for the other shoe to drop when they start digging into her background.
Eyewitnesses: The Baltimore Riots Didn’t Start the Way You Think
Baltimore teachers and parents tell a different story from the one you’ve been reading in the media.
—By Sam Brodey and Jenna McLaughlin
| Tue Apr. 28, 2015 6:00 PM EDT
After Baltimore police and a crowd of teens clashed near the Mondawmin Mall in northwest Baltimore on Monday afternoon, news reports described the violence as a riot triggered by kids who had been itching for a fight all day. But in interviews with Mother Jones and other media outlets, teachers and parents maintain that police actions inflamed a tense-but-stable situation.
The funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died in police custody this month, had ended hours earlier at a nearby church. According to the Baltimore Sun, a call to “purge”—a reference to the 2013 dystopian film in which all crime is made legal for one night—circulated on social media among school-aged Baltimoreans that morning. The rumored plan—which was not traced to any specific person or group—was to assemble at the Mondawmin Mall at 3:00 p.m. and proceed down Pennsylvania Avenue toward downtown Baltimore.
The Baltimore police department, which was aware of the “purge” call, prepared for the worst. Shortly before noon, the department issued a statement saying it had “received credible information that members of various gangs…have entered into a partnership to ‘take-out’ law enforcement officers.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/how-baltimore-riots-began-mondawmin-purge
You’d Be Surprised WHO The OUTSIDE AGITATORS In Baltimore REALLY ARE
While the Baltimore Police Department recruits its manpower outside city limits, its leadership is regularly junketed to training tours in Israel, the occupying power whose hyper-militarized settlers act as some of the Middle East’s most aggressive outside agitators. In September 2009, members of the Baltimore PD “toured and met with their Israeli counterparts to exchange information relating to best practices and recent advancements in security and counterterrorism,” according to the trip’s sponsor, Project Interchange.
A separate Israel tour organized by the neoconservative Jewish Institute for National Security saw members of the Baltimore PD “begin the process of sharing ‘lessons learned’ in Israel with their law enforcement colleagues in the United States.” Back in Maryland, the rate of citizens killed by police officers is skyrocketing. A report by the ACLU has found that 109 people died after encounters with Maryland police between 2010 and 2014, that almost 70 percent of those who died were black, and that over 40 percent of them were unarmed. In Baltimore alone, the city was forced to pay $5.7 million in lawsuits by suspects who accused police officers of beating them brutally and without cause.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/youd-be-surprised-who-the-outside-agitators-in-baltimore-really-are/
HA HA HA HA! This is why white folks can’t have nice things!
Wow!!
remember that threat?
“CREDIBLE” THREAT? ok, then!
These cop clowns incited the riot. They wanted it to happen so they could try and shut this down. The people have officially had enough of these yahoos. The jig is up guys. We recognize the game u been playing with the citizens. Ain’t gonna work this time
BTW, the majority of the national guard are downtown near the Inner Harbor, you know, protecting the good, white citizens of B-more!
This is about our kids right to live free in their black skin. Don’t tell me to suppress my oppression. Fuck No!
Some white folks want to know what can be done, besides violence. When someone throws a rock at me, first I’m going to duck/ and or run, but if they keep pursuing me and keep throwing rocks, bags and bags of rocks,
I’M FIGHTING THE FUCK BACK WITH ALL THAT I HAVE TO REMAIN ALIVE. THE END
And yesterday some of those kids were literally crawling out of their black skin, seething with anger.
TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2015
THANK YOU WARN!
Dear White America: Please Stop Talking About Martin Luther King Jr., ‘Non-Violence’, and the Baltimore ‘Riots’
Freddie Gray was killed by Baltimore’s police. Baltimore’s ghetto youthocracy responded with protests and an exhalation of random street violence. The killing of Freddie Gray, an unarmed black man who was a victim of racial profiling and harassment by police, is the proximate cause of Baltimore’s “riot”.
The deeper and more substantive causes of Baltimore’s violent spasm (and Ferguson and other sites as well) are long simmering grievances and righteous anger at an American police establishment that is racist towards black Americans, and a society where its supposed “meritocracy” is broken by the colorline and class inequality.
The United States may have a black man who happens to be President; racial equality, justice, and the radically democratic transformative possibilities that Obama symbolized seven years ago have not been translated into substantive improvements in the life chances for people of color more generally, or the black and brown poor in particular.
There is a ritual that accompanies these moments of protest by black Americans, and the wholly predictable urban unrest that follows the repeated killings of unarmed black people by police.
http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2015/04/dear-white-america-please-stop-talking.html
Hey Chicas!
CNN is getting their asses handed to them today for the bullshit they play.
https://instagram.com/p/2CXLT4ENHS/
6 COPS DRAGGED FREDDIE INTO A VAN AND SEVERED HIS NECK, KILLING, HIM MEAN C’MON, ERIN!
Who the fuck is telling Mayor Sharon Rawlings_Blake to get in front of the cameras and say: My goal is to get Baltimore back to normal?” WHO?
WTF is NORMAL about shredding someone’s spine and dumping him a van? Is that normal? Where is the van, the autopsy, the van camera?
Are these NORMAL QUESTIONS, MAYOR?
A Message to Whitey
Posted by: Helen Philpot | April 28, 2015- Margret & Helen
Margaret – I had assumed if I wrote again, it would mostly likely be about Hillary. But watching all this violence in Baltimore unfolding on the television moves me to write this instead. Normally I would tell you that when it comes to racial issues, an old white woman from Georgia probably should keep her mouth shut and her opinion to herself. In fact, that’s probably a good idea for white people everywhere because we really probably will just say a whole lot of stupid if we open our mouths right now. But you know me, I have never known when to just shut up…
HERE IS MY WHITE STORY:
About 60 years ago my husband and I scraped together every penny we had to buy a small but lovely home in a safe neighborhood with good schools. Our children had a lovely childhood. They got a good education and always knew that going to college was an achievable goal. The worst thing that ever happened in our neighborhood was a bad divorce or a scandalous affair. Murders and robberies happened across town. And when that happened we spoke of it in hushed tones as we smoked fancy cigarettes and drank iced tea on the back porch. Our children all graduated from college, married and had families of their own. Our grandchildren are repeating the cycle and we even have some great-grandchildren who will continue to do well long after I am dead and gone.
HERE COULD HAVE BEEN MY STORY IF I WAS A BLACK WOMAN:
About 60 years ago my husband and I would have tried to scrape together enough money to buy a small but lovely home in a safe neighborhood with good schools. Unfortunately the banks would not give us funding and the neighborhood we wanted was restricted anyway. Our children would never truly feel the American dream was about them. The schools they attended would be poorly funded and under-achieving in every way. As hard as I tried to hide it from them, they would know that a life of crime, drugs and violence was a real possibility and it probably would pay better than any job they could get. Fearing authority would come more easily than trusting it. Some of them might overcome the odds but more than likely they w0uld repeat a life of near poverty and almost but not quites… College would be possible but nearly twice as many of their white friends would see that happen rather than their black friends. They would have been called the n-word in various forms many times in their life and they would know that 1 in every 15 African American men are incarcerated in comparison to 1 in every 106 white men. When my family eventually celebrated the election of the first black President… we would have done so knowing he might be the last for many years to come. My grandchildren and great-grandchildren might fare slightly better, but only slightly and only if they were very lucky.
Read on
http://margaretandhelen.com/2015/04/28/a-message-to-whitey/
America has fed the drug of racism & brutality Killing blacks is an ADDICTION.
Mayor SRB why don’t you speak on the closed down businesses, fractured infrastructure that is present before the rioting and looters last night? SPEAK ON THE POLICE BRUTALITY AND KILLINGS
You can never get Baltimore back to “normal” until you address the system of police brutatlity and white supremacy, Mayor!
Ametia, let’s not forget that dumb, arrogant, racist governor. God, I loathe that man, and I only just got to hear him talk and act since yesterday.
he totally thew the mayor under the bus yesterday.
GO AWAY MAYOR SRB, JUST GO SIT DOWN & SHUT UP
How about bringing CHARGES up on those cops who KILLED FREDDIE GRAY?
JesseWilliams. retweeted
If the safety of the community is your top priority, why did you kill #FreddieGray? Taurean added,
Baltimore Police @BaltimorePolice
We are continuing to deploy resources across the city to respond to reports of violence. The safety of our community is our top priority.
JESSE WILLIAMS ON TWITTER FOR THE WIN!
https://twitter.com/iJesseWilliams
JesseWilliams. @iJesseWilliams · 19h 19 hours ago
You want us to condemn black folks being violent against PROPERTY but you NEVER condemn police killing actual PEOPLE. #Explain #JustTry
https://twitter.com/paulbeban/status/593158670520836097
MSNBC puts on these folks who spew that “protect & defend” and keeping citizens safe in Baltimore. Their only concern about safety is when Black folks protest, and then their is a call for safety and trust of the police who are KILLING black citizens.
TOTAL bullshit
Police commissioner says “we don’t want to destroy our beautiful city.”
TELL THE COPS TO STOP KILLING THE BEAUTIFUL CITIZENS OF THEIR BEAUTIFUL CITY!
THIS:
Activist smacks down Wolf Blitzer: ‘You are suggesting broken windows are worse than broken spines’
McKesson agreed that the property damage in Baltimore on Monday night had been unfortunate, but he urged Blitzer to remember that there had been “many days of peaceful protests here in Baltimore City and places all around the country.”
“But at least 15 police officers have been hurt, 200 arrests, 144 vehicle fires — these are statistics,” Blitzer countered, robotically reading a police press release. “There’s no excuse for that kind of violence, right?”
“Yeah, and there’s no excuse for the seven people that the Baltimore City Police Department has killed in the last year either, right?” McKesson shot back.
“We’re not making comparisons,” Blitzer stuttered. “Obviously, we don’t want anybody hurt. But I just want to hear you say that there should be peaceful protests, not violent protests in the tradition of Dr. Martin Luther King.”
TOTALLY SCRIPTED FOR WOLF BLITZER to get McKesson to respond so that CNN can run it on a continuous LOOP!
“Yeah, there’s should be peaceful protests,” the community organizer replied. “And I don’t have to condone it to understand it, right? The pain that people feel is real.”
“And you are making a comparison,” McKesson added. “You are suggesting this idea that broken windows are worse than broken spines, right?”
Activist smacks down Wolf Blitzer: ‘You are suggesting broken windows are worse than broken spines’
David Edwards
28 Apr 2015 at 16:21 ET
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/activist-smacks-down-wolf-blitzer-you-are-suggesting-broken-windows-are-worse-than-broken-spines/
I see the Mayor is at it again. If I hear her call folks “thugs,,,”
https://twitter.com/anneclairecnn/status/593145662864228352
from the comments at DavidSimon.com:
http://davidsimon.com/baltimore/comment-page-1/#comment-1044659
The emotional toll and stress on us, every time we get word of another unarmed black boy or man is shot and killed leaves a devastating effect on our physical and mental well being as well.
Living in a perpetual state of anxiety because a segment of America’s citizens HATE BLACK SKIN, and will use any means necessary to extinguish us has been happening forever and a day, and should be listed as a diagnosis in the DSM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders
Close down that mofo
Wednesday afternoon’s game between the Orioles and Chicago White Sox in Baltimore will be closed to the public, the Orioles have announced. The unprecedented action follows the postponements of Monday’s and Tuesday’s games against the White Sox until May 28 amid unrest in Baltimore.
Major League Baseball believes this is the first time that a game has been closed to the public, a league source says.
By some strange chance are the students who couldn’t take transit home yesterday, hiding out in the stadium?
Mind you, PBO is not the creator of this EVIL, and any amount of statements on his part isn’t going to CURE THE EVIL OF WHITE SUPREMACY& COP KILLING
So, unless there is a miracle that we haven’t figured out yet, LOOK ANOTHER FOR SHOOTING/MURDER OF UNARMED BLACK MEN/BOYS IN A CITY NEAR YOU!
WASH, RISNE, REPEAT.
PBO out to calm down the niggas. parsing his words carefully, “some police are not doing the right thing.”
PBO; Point #6 We have seen too many instances, of what it appears to be police officers interacting with individual, primarily African Americans often poor, in ways that raise troubling questions. And it comes up, seems like once a week now. once every couple of weeks now.
But he dose call the” rioters” “THUGS”
Because he can’t just come out and say they are MURDERING UNARMED BLACK PEOPLE.
Help us, Lord! Deliver us from this evil.
Check email please. Thank you.
Some POLICE BETTER START DOING
THE.RIGHT.THING.
Stop telling our kids to shut up and go home!
WE NEED LAWS THAT PROTECT OUR CHILDREN
I’m almost at the point to give the fuck up.
I could smack the taste outta this little rug rats mouth
Luke Russert
✔ @LukeRussert
By my notes Mayor has not expressed any support for police dept so far in this presser, #Baltimore
7:15 PM – 27 Apr 2015
I got him!
Lil Luke words: That’s code for :
SHE DIDN’T FOLLOW THE SCRIPT LIKE IT WAS WRITTEN & UPHOLD THE STAUS QUO
next up the Black POTUS to appeal to our better angels.
from POU:
http://pragmaticobotsunite.com/tuesday-open-thread-african-americans-and-the-sport-of-horse-racing/#comment-1991785452
STRATEGY=DISMANTLING THE WHITE SUPREMACY SYSTEM.
Ask any of these wealthy blacks today how they got their wealth, while dealing with this system.
what say you Kneegrows on the Rand Paul train?
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Rand Paul: Baltimore Violence Is About ‘Lack Of Fathers’ And Morals
PublishedAPRIL 28, 2015, 11:25 AM EDT
Presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) weighed in on the turmoil in Baltimore on Tuesday, standing with police and blaming the violence on a lack of morals in America.
“I came through the train on Baltimore (sic) last night, I’m glad the train didn’t stop,” he said, laughing, during an interview with conservative radio host Laura Ingraham.
Railing against what he repeatedly called “thuggery and thievery” in the streets of Baltimore, Paul told Ingraham that talking about “root causes” was not appropriate in the middle of a riot.
“The police have to do what they have to do, and I am very sympathetic to the plight of the police in this,” he said.
As far as root causes, Paul listed some ideas of his own.
“There are so many things we can talk about,” the senator said, “the breakdown of the family structure, the lack of fathers, the lack of a moral code in our society.”
He added that “this isn’t just a racial thing.”
Paul, who has branded himself as an advocate of criminal justice reform, also said justice must come from an investigation of the case of Freddie Gray, a black man who died of a spinal injury while in the custody of Baltimore police.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rand-paul-freddie-gray-baltimore-morals
We got your fucking MORALS, Rand Paul.
This ain’t got shit to do with morals, they are subjective.
My morals aren’t dictated by WHITE SUPREMACY.
And that would be your idea of morals. RAND PAUL GO SIT THE FUCK DOWN AND SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Why Can’t Baltimore’s Black Female Mayor Stop Saying ‘Thug’?
http://jezebel.com/why-cant-baltimores-black-female-mayor-stop-saying-thug-1700640755
“OK, girl. But you know what would be amazing, Mayor Rawlings-Blake? If you directed those statements to the police you work so closely with, and not in some back room with your city’s police chief.
I understand that walking the line between calling for police accountability and supporting the constituents who voted for you is a tough spot, especially considering how New York City Mayor DeBlasio was treated by NYPD after Officer Daniel Pantaleo killed Eric Garner on camera and didn’t receive any punishment but this is the job.
But you need to do better, Rawlings-Blake, because, right now, you look like the woman who is protecting the people who are killing your voters. Like Malcolm X once said, “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
They are all so afraid of the very police that are supposed to be their subordinates. The whole thing makes my stomach churn.
UH HUH
I wanna know who asked fucking New Jersey for anything.
Eyewitness News @ABC7NY 47s 47 seconds ago
#Breaking New Jersey deploying 150 state police troopers to aid situation in Baltimore, with 100 providing operational support
NEW JERSEY SHOULD HAVE DEPLOYED 12O POLIC TROOPERS WHEN GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE SHUT DOWN THE George WASHINGTON BRIDGE LAST YEAR!
See how this works?
“When they picked him up off the ground the man couldn’t even move.”
“Yeah, I saw that too.”
Anyone who watches the video sees it. What else needs to be “investigated” to charge the cops? Start charging them and maybe some truth will come out and the “brotherhood” ties get a little frayed.
See how it works, Mayor Sharon Rawlings-Blake? BLAME & SCAPEGOATING
04.28.155:25 AM ET
Baltimore Mayor Gave Permission to Riot
Before condemning the thugs who are looting and burning the city, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake talked about giving ‘space’ to people intent on destruction, showing a startling lack of common sense.
Yes, she said it.
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake stood before the news cameras over the weekend and really did say, “We also gave those who wish to destroy space to do that as well.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/28/baltimore-mayor-s-tone-deaf-handling-of-city-s-riot-crisis.html
Yup.
https://twitter.com/YourAnonGlobal/status/592904255515791361
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/593077369113448448
Notice at these pressers they get the puppets to get up there in front of the cameras and tell us how much weaponry they have to deploy against, UNARMED CITIZENS.
BLACK Folks had better get REAL ABOUT THEIR 2ND AMMENDMENT RIGHTS! Because they are shooting UNARMED BLACKS at lightening speed RATES.
JAS ❤️ @Str8diamondz · 52m 52 minutes ago
@deray things the media hardly show ! #PrayForBaltimore #RIPFreddieGray
Volunteers helping clean up:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDr4EcoWYAExFN5.jpg
Thank you, yahtzee. We need the TRUTH HERE.
https://twitter.com/khanknee/status/592898148080734210
Tell.it.Connie. What the media needs to do more of is INTERVIEW the teens who were left to fend for themselves.
But they get to push the narrative of look at how these niggas destroyed PO PO cars and hurt the PO PO!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDpIQVQWMAEA5hc.jpg
They cared NOTHING about the safety of the school kids. In fact the cops saw them as part of the nuisance they must contain, before thing really got out of hand.
https://twitter.com/brownblaze/status/592789761519198209
Which tells solidifies it that these MOFOs don’t see police brutality and shooting unarmed blacks as PROVOCATION and UNLAWFUL.
https://twitter.com/zellieimani/status/592823632994373634/photo/1
https://twitter.com/PressTV/status/592773741622501378/photo/1
https://twitter.com/TheREAL_MBrooks/status/592796476436275200
https://twitter.com/_CaptainJohnson/status/592341400202653698/photo/1
https://twitter.com/BlackGirlDanger/status/592151837731487744
https://twitter.com/jsmooth995/status/592826002344120321
https://twitter.com/mychalsmith/status/592847334972743680
https://twitter.com/mychalsmith/status/592838881302716417
“This Ain’t About Freddie Gray.”
“It’s from years and years of taking shit,” said Martin, a longtime resident and a cook at a nearby soul food restaurant. “Now we’re at a point where people just don’t give a fuck.”
This hopelessness — expressed by many young protesters in Baltimore — arose from frustration with a system that they believe has consigned them to police brutality, poverty and even poorer prospects. The streets were filled with children Monday, many of them fresh out of school and itching for a fight with police. By 4 p.m., around the time schools let out for the day, people were hustling out of office buildings and stores and restaurants were closing their doors to customers.”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/joelanderson/this-aint-about-freddie-gray#.jy3GEyVL8l
https://twitter.com/AishaMoodMills/status/592848167026163712
THIS
https://twitter.com/RahielT/status/592838813241778176
https://twitter.com/AwakendLioness/status/592818936896454657
https://twitter.com/vaidehijoshi/status/592825476604891137
https://twitter.com/TheObamaCat/status/592869326014783489
Yes; these boys are SICK & TIRED of BEING SICK & TIRED
https://twitter.com/docrocktex26/status/592860656308715524
ALL OF THIS A MILLIONS TRILLION TIMES.