Baltimore

[CarlV]

Originally Posted by djv8ga

So what happens next? This is some of the craziest stuff I've seen live from my couch.

Looks like the citizens are out being seen cleaning up the mess. It is a sad thing but has to be expected. The TPers pride themselves on a history of destructive rioting, no?
More than anything I feel for the business owners that lost it all and the good citizens that will not have the services of that business that won't be rebuilt. Only a bombed out storefront and an absentee landlord who could care less remain.

Originally Posted by hillbilly

Right now as I type they are covering Al Sharpton on his way to Baltimore. And a black man is saying that Al needs to keep away.

Originally Posted by noonereal

lol, is the black man on Fox?

wE know he is, go ahead and admit it.

I would have thought they would have blamed it all on Sharpton. After all, wasn't he breathing air when all this mess started?


Carl

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by nailer

It's 68 again. Same area is being hit the hardest. I had two cousins who were called up in 68. One was put in front of a liquor store on North Ave. with no ammunition for his M-14.

The gangs of Baltimore have always been great rioters.

Your last sentence seems to be an effort to trivialize these riots and to cast the reasons behind them in a negative light. I was in both Washington and Baltimore performing riot duty during the MLK riots. I can assure you that the reasons behind them were anything but trivial.

[donquixote99]

'~Those people~ are rioting again' seems to be what many people are taking away from it.

Good gun-buying signal. Business will benefit across the land.

[CarlV]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

One would have thought that after the Watts riots, the Dr. King riots, the Rodney King riots...and all the other albeit self-destructive incidents in the history of race relations in this country, that the white power structure might have finally figured out that this shit can't continue.

I guess not.

Just since 1980:

2009: Oakland, CA – Riots following the BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant.

3/4 of the arrests in Oakland were not citizens of Oakland. Just sayin'


Carl

[Zeke]

It's always struck me as odd that humans rioting due to adversarial relationships with law enforcement fail to realize all they're doing is validating the need for diligent protection of officer safety.

Even if these loons had an argument, they just killed it.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Zeke

It's always struck me as odd that humans rioting due to adversarial relationships with law enforcement fail to realize all they're doing is validating the need for diligent protection of officer safety.

I suppose that's why most inner cities are basically "free fire zones" for the cops. It's the "law enforcement" version of the Bush Doctrine.

[Boreas]

Regarding the media reports that Baltimore gangs have made a truce with one another to make war on the police (for which there is no actual evidence), it appears that something quite different is occurring. What's beginning to come to light is the fact that the gangs are actually working together to protect the public and also the media from the more violent rioters. There are reports of gang members, wearing colors, escorting reporters through the riot zone and protecting people and their homes from harm.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Zeke

It's always struck me as odd that humans rioting due to adversarial relationships with law enforcement fail to realize all they're doing is validating the need for diligent protection of officer safety.

Even if these loons had an argument, they just killed it.

Cute.

1. Mistreat people.
2. People riot.
3. Claim mistreatment justified by riot.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Cute.

1. Mistreat people.
2. People riot.
3. Claim mistreatment justified by riot.

Cops just wanna have fun.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Regarding the media reports that Baltimore gangs have made a truce with one another to make war on the police (for which there is no actual evidence), it appears that something quite different is occurring. What's beginning to come to light is the fact that the gangs are actually working together to protect the public and also the media from the more violent rioters. There are reports of gang members, wearing colors, escorting reporters through the riot zone and protecting people and their homes from harm.

exactly, I was wondering when people were gonna start to be honest about this.

Early yesterday a few reporters noted this but it never got repeated by the studio talking heads.