^^

http://coed.com/2015/04/27/baltimore-riots-mom-slap-video-freddy-gray-protests-looting/

4/27/2015 9:59:47 PM

https://www.facebook.com/TheRealWTFMagazine/videos/996724463681450/?comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22O%22%7D

This is ridiculous

^Yea that really helps. Obviously she's a shitty parent that finally decided to try and take charge.

[Edited on April 27, 2015 at 10:03 PM. Reason : ,]

4/27/2015 10:01:30 PM

WBAL TV, NBC 11 is the point station for coverage of this. they're the best station up here.

http://www.wbaltv.com/

4/27/2015 10:44:27 PM

if they ban the sale of alcohol in this town like they did in 1968, I may burn this motherfucker down my damn self.

4/27/2015 11:00:09 PM

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/nonviolence-as-compliance/391640/

4/27/2015 11:19:09 PM

dbl

[Edited on April 27, 2015 at 11:19 PM. Reason : my B]

4/27/2015 11:19:09 PM

send the entire city into the sea, as an example to others

4/27/2015 11:39:50 PM

Damn Bmore taking it up a notch. Ferguson who??

4/27/2015 11:49:52 PM

non-violence - steal cars, hoon them, set them on fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHNdEMPaMpU

4/28/2015 12:05:04 AM

non-violence - attack photographers, steal their camera, kick them in the head

4/28/2015 12:06:18 AM

http://m.mic.com/articles/116680/11-stunning-images-highlight-the-double-standard-of-reactions-to-riots-like-baltimore

Hope everybody reads this

4/28/2015 4:53:57 AM

Grand theft auto used to be completely fake game but now its all real even the way the police behave

4/28/2015 5:50:01 AM

Quote :

"A 2012 study by the Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention revealed that in 2010 black youths committed six times more murders, three times more rapes, 10 times more robberies and three times more assaults than did their white counterparts. Similar statistics were released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the “Uniform Crime Reports.” They determined, “In the year 2008, black youths, who make up 16% of the youth population, accounted for 52% of juvenile violent crime arrests, including 58% for homicide and 67% for robbery.” By contrast, the only categories where white youths surpassed blacks were in liquor law violations and driving under the influence. Even black civil rights advocates such as Van Jones, President Barack Obama’s former green jobs czar, confirmed these findings. In his October 5, 2005 article, “Are Blacks a Criminal Race?” Jones wrote, “African American youth represent 32% of all weapons arrests [and] were arrested for aggravated assault at a rate nearly three times that of whites.”"

Insane statistics.

4/28/2015 6:44:47 AM

https://www.facebook.com/ricky.kelly.948/videos/1083402581675493/

4/28/2015 6:54:51 AM

Perhaps we should turn this conversation back to Freddie Gray...

4/28/2015 7:26:38 AM

^^^ I would bet my life there is a higher correlation with crime and poverty level than with race alone.

[Edited on April 28, 2015 at 8:37 AM. Reason : Statistics are fun!]

4/28/2015 8:36:35 AM

^^^^now this motherfucker wants to talk percentages

4/28/2015 8:42:27 AM

Or perhaps the larger theme here that has been occluded by rioting and looting is the history of police violence in Baltimore. Politicians and the media alike seem to excuse this, or at least turn a blind eye to police violence more often than not.

Not to excuse rioting or violent protests, but comparitively speaking, burning buildings and smashing police cars is considerably less violent that severing someones spine and ultimately killing them.

[Edited on April 28, 2015 at 8:43 AM. Reason : lol, sping ]

4/28/2015 8:42:33 AM

No mention of how a man got his neck snapped and spine severed, everyone is just mad about riots.

4/28/2015 8:47:17 AM

So why did Freddie Gray run? He knew all he had on him was a knife, which isnt a huge deal.

Maybe in his short life, he learned that if the Baltimore police catch you, regardless of whether youre doing anything wrong, you stand a decent chance of getting your ass beaten....or worse. Fear. I think that fear drove Freddie Gray to think 'aw, shit...cops...let me get my narrow behind out of here just in case'

[Edited on April 28, 2015 at 8:52 AM. Reason : h]

4/28/2015 8:52:14 AM

I really wish police officers were paid more and the profession was more difficult to get into.

I really think a lot of people get into the career for the wrong reasons and get frustrated by the long hours and low wages. Which doesn't excuse the beating etc... but i think we need to go to the root cause of all this.

Essentially in many officers heads this is a war... and that was the enemy... which really defeats the whole idea of protect and serve written on the sides of their cars.

I will say what i have said many times... the 3 people from my class in high school that became LEOs would be in the bottom 25% of people i would recommend for the job. They were all what you would consider "bullys". Morons that got their rocks off trying to intimidate others. One of them was even suspended for hazing when given what he did he should have been arrested for sexual assault.

4/28/2015 8:55:36 AM

a Baltimore teacher said that the situation escalated when they stopped buses and made all the kids get off. it dumped a bunch of high school kids into an area that already had a lot of cops in riot gear

4/28/2015 8:58:46 AM

the rioting and looting are perfect examples of what happens when you don't use a heavy-handed police approach in Baltimore. They tried to quell the riots this weekend with pacifism, and these knuckleheads mistook kindness for weakness. The mayor was on the news last night trying to backpedal out of her decision, and you could tell from her tone and facial expressions that she regretted not taking more action over the weekend.

[Edited on April 28, 2015 at 9:01 AM. Reason : ^who's saying that? These kids were messaging each other to go to the mall.]

4/28/2015 9:00:13 AM

it really seemed like much of the violence that erupted yesterday was started by a bunch of dumbass high school kids calling for a 'purge'

4/28/2015 9:07:50 AM

^ Yea most of the really destructive videos I've seen was teenagers.


Exhibit A for why he ran.

Quote :

"March 20, 2015: Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Substance March 13, 2015: Malicious destruction of property, second-degree assault January 20, 2015: Fourth-degree burglary, trespassing January 14, 2015: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute December 31, 2014: Possession of narcotics with intent to distribute December 14, 2014: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance August 31, 2014: Illegal gambling, trespassing January 25, 2014: Possession of marijuana September 28, 2013: Distribution of narcotics, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, second-degree assault, second-degree escape April 13, 2012: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, violation of probation July 16, 2008: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession with intent to distribute March 28, 2008: Unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance March 14, 2008: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to manufacture and distribute February 11, 2008: Unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance August 29, 2007: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, violation of probation August 28, 2007: Possession of marijuana August 23, 2007: False statement to a peace officer, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance July 16, 2007: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance (2 counts)"

His extensive police record. Odds are having a pocket knife was some sort of automatic trip to jail, idk

[Edited on April 28, 2015 at 9:11 AM. Reason : ,]

4/28/2015 9:11:16 AM

almost all victimless crimes. therefore he dies

4/28/2015 9:19:25 AM

Quote :

"^who's saying that? These kids were messaging each other to go to the mall."

https://www.facebook.com/meghann.v.harris/posts/10204024813480401

4/28/2015 9:20:55 AM

not going to lie... that sounded so good and then lost me with "i'd be ready to pop off too" wtf?

4/28/2015 9:25:21 AM

Quote :

"I just got home from driving some kiddos home from Mondawmin and this is exactly what we saw. Students were trapped in the mess, whether they were choosing to participate or not. About 15 buses were parked and made all their passengers get off so they had no way to get home. If they bussed in there without knowing what was going on, they were thrown into the middle of essentially a battle field. Police were there in full top to bottom riot gear before students did anything. Maybe if they let people leave the area, it wouldn't have been as bad. As far as I know, though, the intent was to attack cops either way. I feel bad for any person who got stuck in the middle of this, as there were quite a lot of them. Additionally, cops announced there was a hit out on them from local gangs. As the news clearly shows: these are all just high school students. Gangs aren't the ones joining in. Seems like a situation that was blown up by police response."

4/28/2015 9:32:43 AM

skokiaan are you stupid. He asked why he ran, I posted exactly why this career criminal ran. Wtf are you talking about.

4/28/2015 9:35:33 AM

Quote :

"second-degree escape"

what the hell kind of charge is this?

4/28/2015 9:39:39 AM

http://law.justia.com/codes/maryland/2010/criminal-law/title-9/subtitle-4/9-405

4/28/2015 9:40:45 AM

Quote :

"Seems like a situation that was blown up by police response."

LOL foh mane

4/28/2015 9:43:20 AM

I was under the impression that if you are black and get arrested for drug charges you're pretty much automatically going to jail for years. but this guy was arrested for drugs 15 times over the past decade.

4/28/2015 9:48:52 AM

he took off running because his lookout yelled "Here Comes Time Out!". guess the new nickname for police in Baltimore sounds appropriate with that arrest record.

4/28/2015 9:51:09 AM

Word on the street is that eleusis lives in Hanover.

Hanover:Baltimore::Cary:: Durham

[Edited on April 28, 2015 at 10:26 AM. Reason : h]

4/28/2015 10:26:03 AM

urham ehh?

4/28/2015 10:27:06 AM

I work in Windsor Mill. Currently living in Ellicott City, but I'll probably buy a house in the Randallstown area. not sure how they equate to the RTP towns, but I like them.

4/28/2015 10:41:02 AM

Nice.

I have a buddy in Columbia, and another in Owings Mills who is moving to Mount Airy soon. They both like the area as well.

4/28/2015 10:48:09 AM

Apparently it was a struggle to get CVS to come to that location.

I guess for good reason.

4/28/2015 11:27:52 AM

It's almost like access to basic needs and things like equal opportunity to education are harder for kids growing up in poverty.

Just kidding, just cut yacht taxes and the savings will surely trickle down to those communities.

4/28/2015 11:33:27 AM

Yeah, any business that would even want to move in there would at a minimum face prohibitively high insurance costs.

I think it generally takes 30 to 50 years after a riot for businesses to start investiving in an area again.

4/28/2015 11:33:55 AM

Quote :

"It's almost like access to basic needs and things like equal opportunity to education are harder for kids growing up in poverty."

Instead of pleading for businesses like CVS to come to a poor community, only to have their shit looted out from underneath them, why don't we just start some government run commissaries? NyM410 and everyone else can pay for it then with their taxes, rather than wait on those yacht taxes to be cut. Then if the commissaries get burned to the ground, the government can just stand another one up in its place.

4/28/2015 11:48:02 AM

Throwing money at them won't fix their lack of carrying about education etc.

4/28/2015 11:51:12 AM

^^ if rather my taxes go to help those born into less fortunate situations than me then most of where it actually goes.

But my point is simply that the people in these communities are marginalized to the point of despair. It's really amazing there are any good people willing to step up and try and control these mobs given how much the country shits on them.

4/28/2015 11:57:31 AM

Thought I'd share with y'all some of my experiences here, since I live in Baltimore relatively close to the riots (I've never posted much, nowadays I mostly lurk sports talk whenever the UNC scandal flares up).

I live just West of Patterson Park and South of the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus. The hood (not the wire, but still not great) is 10ish blocks North of my place, so this is a generally safe neighborhood. Yesterday I parked my car by my place getting back from work, looked up, and some rando dude (looked like he might've been a wanna-be gang member) was brandishing a handgun. I get out of my car with my head down, some guy up the street is yelling "yo dawg, that guy has a gun!" I'm thinking, yeah, and he doesn't see me, so shut the hell up. Anyhow, dude kept walking down the street, messing with his gun like an idiot; nothing happened but it got the neighbors riled up.

There was some looting and B&E last night in what is normally a pretty safe area, a lot of folks over-reacting on facebook and twitter, but also some real shit going down. I hope I'm wrong, but I think it's going to be worse this evening and tonight, since most of the petty stuff is being done by high school kids (YOUTHS ) and opportunists, and school was cancelled today. The police are stretched too thin to respond to petty crime, and I don't see the national guard really doing the police work that's needed.

Anyhow, my white ass is headed back to NC. My wife is in Raleigh so I don't need too much of an excuse to come home anyways. I feel safe where I'm at, but I park my car on the street and I'd rather not take risks.

4/28/2015 12:17:34 PM

the person who cut the fire hose should be charged with attempted murder

[Edited on April 28, 2015 at 12:27 PM. Reason : -]

4/28/2015 12:22:56 PM

^^ glad youre ok

4/28/2015 12:46:56 PM

Progressive State funding of education. Organize every school districts propery tax by per capita and flip em.

Districts with the lowest property tax get the highest spending per capita and vice versa. Eventually everythimg will level out and there will be no more poor areas.

Im a god damn genius

4/28/2015 3:10:16 PM

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