Surveillance video taken at the corner of North and Pennsylvania avenues shows the progression of the riots and looting.
The following video was obtained by the Baltimore Sun:
Ex Top Cop: We Need a New Model of Policing
Posted: August 20, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Think Tank | Tags: African American, Apple Valley, Associated Press, Baltimore Police Department, Baton Rouge, California, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Louisiana, Minnesota, Myrtle Beach, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Saint Paul, South Carolina, University of Chicago 1 Comment
The horrific deaths of Philando Castillo in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, give us an updated and up-close glimpse of police encounters gone bad—but they are rooted in decades of problematic policing in America. “Historically in this country, the police have never really been the friends of the black community,” says Neill Franklin, a former officer with the Baltimore Police Department and current executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (L.E.A.P).
Franklin talked with Reason TV Editor-in-Chief Nick Gillespie at this year’s Freedom Fest in Las Vegas, Nevada, pointing out that slavery may have ended officially in the late 1800s, but a lot of policing was born out of that era and the one that followed, when police deliberately enforced laws in ways that targeted black citizens. Even today, police are tasked with enforcing laws—from driving without a license to missing a court date—that tend to target poor communities and communities of color.
“You know a $250 fine doesn’t mean much to people who have money,” says Franklin. “But when you enforce these policies in poor communities, a hundred dollar fine can devastate a family.” Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Justice Department Calls For Baltimore Police Overhaul Plan
Posted: August 10, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: African American, Baltimore, Baltimore Police Department, Gray's Anatomy, murder, Police commissioner, Police officer, State's attorney, United States Department of Justice 1 Comment
A U.S. Justice Department investigation into practices of the Baltimore Police Department found disparities in the rates African-Americans were stopped, searched and arrested. The WSJ’s Lee Hawkins explains.
People celebrate after State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced criminal charges against all six officers suspended after Freddie Gray suffered a fatal spinal injury while in police custody in Baltimore. Photo: David Goldman/Associated Press
This July 30, 2015 picture shows a blighted home in west Baltimore. Murders are spiking again in Baltimore, three months after Freddie Gray’s death in police custody sparked riots. This year’s monthly bloodshed has twice reached levels unseen in a quarter-century. In May, Baltimore set a 25-year high of 42 recorded killings. After a brief dip in June, the homicide is soaring again. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Shots Fired: Man In Panda Suit Threatens to Set Off Bomb at Fox Baltimore Station
Posted: April 28, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Al Udeid Air Base, Baltimore, Baltimore Police Department, Bomb, Central Intelligence Agency, Fox 45, news 1 Comment
A man who threatened to set off a bomb in the offices of Fox 45 Baltimore Thursday afternoon, forcing authorities to evacuate the building, walked outside before shots were fired by police and he fell to the ground.
“The man wore a white panda suit, a surgical mask and sunglasses. He apparently lit a car on fire in the parking lot before entering the building.”
The man’s current condition is unclear, and police did not identify him. They told Fox 45 he apparently was hit by bean bag rounds. Reporters said he held an unidentified object in his left hand.
“He had a flash drive, said he had information he wanted to get on the air. He compared it to the information found in the Panama Papers. I told him, ‘I can’t let you in, you’re going to have to leave the flash drive here and slide it through the opening.’ He wouldn’t do that. Apparently he had made some threats before.”
— News Director Mike Tomko
The man wore a white panda suit, a surgical mask and sunglasses. He apparently lit a car on fire in the parking lot before entering the building.
“He had a flash drive, said he had information he wanted to get on the air. He compared it to the information found in the Panama Papers. I told him, ‘I can’t let you in, you’re going to have to leave the flash drive here and slide it through the opening.’ He wouldn’t do that. Apparently he had made some threats before,” News Director Mike Tomko said…(read more)
Source: Fox News
OH YES HE DID: Bridgeport Officer Who Reported Racist Letter Wrote It
Posted: December 3, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, Space & Aviation, U.S. News | Tags: Abuse, Akron Police Department, Alabama, Allen v. City of Oakland, Baltimore Police Department, begging, Brooklyn, hoax, Police, Police brutality, Police officer, race 1 Comment
A former Bridgeport police officer who claimed someone left a racist memo on police letterhead in his mailbox at headquarters in February admitted to writing the letter himself and has been charged with filing a false report, according to police.
Former Officer Clive Higgins reported that he found a racist hate letter in his police mailbox the morning of Monday, Feb. 9 and feared for his life because of it.
The letter, printed on paper marked with the department’s official letterhead, started off with “WHITE POWER” and went on to say “Officer Clive Higgins doesn’t belong here in this Police Department” and “These Black Officers belong in the toilet.”
Authorities Investigate Racist Letter at Bridgeport PD
A month earlier, Higgins was acquitted in connection with a 2011 police brutality case in which officers were caught on camera beating a suspect at Beardsley Park and shooting him with a stun gun. Two other officers were convicted, but a federal jury found Higgins not guilty.
“He’s not getting his gun or his badge back. He didn’t even support his fellow Officers in Court,” the letter stated. “Where were you Higgins ?? You better watch your back.. We know where you live.” Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] New Video, Radio Transmissions During Baltimore Riots Released
Posted: July 21, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: ABC News, Baltimore, Baltimore Police Department, CVS Pharmacy, Death, Detention (imprisonment), Federal Hill, Gray's Anatomy, National Guard of the United States, Police commissioner, The Baltimore Sun, tobacco, United States Department of Justice 1 Comment
“He got hit with a brick. We’re going to standby here. I can’t leave these officers here by themselves.”
BALTIMORE — Gina Cook reports: When riots erupted in Baltimore in April, 150 cops were hurt as the city descended into chaos. Newly released video and radio transmissions are providing an additional viewpoint into just how confusing and tense it was for Baltimore Police.
“Hold the line! Do not go forward and do not chase them!”
Some of the audio makes it clear the leaders of the police department realized their officers were ill equipped for the escalating situation, Domen reports.
(NO AUDIO) City surveillance video obtained by The Sun shows the intersection of Pennsylvania and North avenues over the span of several hours on April 27, 2015. That intersection, one of several locations in Baltimore that saw disturbances that night in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death, became the epicenter for violence and protests for several days. (Baltimore Sun)
“Some of the audio makes it clear the leaders of the police department realized their officers were ill equipped for the escalating situation, Domen reports.”
WNEW’s John Domen reports police radio transmissions also provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the panic officers experienced during those hours. Read the rest of this entry »
BREAKING: Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Declines to Fire Self, Fires Police Commissioner Police Commissioner Anthony Batts Instead
Posted: July 8, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Anthony Batts, Baltimore, Baltimore Police Department, Federal Hill, Pennsylvania, Police commissioner, Riot, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake 3 Comments
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has fired Police Commissioner Anthony Batts.
Rawlings-Blake announced the firing in a news release Wednesday afternoon. She said Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Davis will become interim commissioner.
Rawlings did not give a reason, but the move comes amid a spike in the city’s homicide rate.
Baltimore was rocked with civil unrest in April after black resident Freddie Gray died one week after suffering a critical spinal injury in police custody. Six police officers have been criminally charged in Gray’s death.
Since the rioting stopped, the city has seen a sharp increase in violence, with 155 homicides this year, a 48 percent increase over the same period last year. [AP/Breitbart.com]
The Wall Street Journal‘s Scott Calvert reports:
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake abruptly dismissed Police Commissioner Anthony Batts on Wednesday, hours after the city’s police union released a report sharply critical of the department’s response to rioting here in late April.
Ms. Rawlings-Blake announced the decision minutes before Mr. Batts was due to hold a news conference. She named Deputy Commissioner Kevin Davis as interim commissioner effective immediately. She was scheduled to address reporters later Wednesday afternoon.
The move came hours after the city’s police union said officers lacked appropriate riot gear and weren’t allowed to stop widespread looting during the unrest.
“Decisions implemented by top commanders of the Baltimore Police Department left officers in harm’s way,” union President Lt. Gene Ryan said at an earlier news conference. “Equally as important, the lack of preparation put the very citizens that we were sworn to protect in harm’s way as well.”
Police-department officials didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the report. A spokesman for Ms. Rawlings-Blake dismissed the report as “no more than a trumped up political document full of baseless accusations, finger pointing and personal attacks.” Read the rest of this entry »
Chart of the Day: Baltimore Cops on Soaring Crime Rate: ‘The Public Wanted a Softer Police Force and Now They’ve Got It’
Posted: June 11, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Police Department, Brooke Baldwin, CNN, HEATHER MAC DONALD, homicide, New York City, Police, United States, Violent crime 1 Comment
Allapundit writes: There were 23 homicides and 39 nonfatal shootings in Baltimore in May 2014. Through 29 days of May 2015, there were 42 homicides and 104 nonfatal shootings. Gulp.
Why are arrests down so sharply? Some cops may fear that criminals have turned more aggressive and confrontational after a year of high-profile allegations of police brutality, from the protests in Ferguson to the assassination of two officers in New York to the riots over Freddie Gray in Baltimore. Jack Dunphy, a cop himself, noted in a piece for PJM last month that crime rates are up in multiple major cities nationwide. Can’t be a coincidence. For other officers, it’s not fear of perps that drives them but of the DA: Watch towards the end of the clip below and you’ll hear Brooke Baldwin say some cops told her they’re more afraid of being charged by Marilyn Mosby if an arrest goes bad than they are of being killed in the line of duty. Even Baltimore’s police commissioner acknowledges that concern:
Batts has several explanations for what’s happening. One is a flood of prescription drugs on the street, being used for recreational purposes, that were looted from pharmacies during the April rioting. “There’s enough narcotics on the streets of Baltimore to keep it intoxicated for a year,” Batts said Wednesday. “That amount of drugs has thrown off the balance on the streets of Baltimore.” (This is, City Paper notes, a bit exaggerated.) Batts also said that officers have been patrolling in pairs rather than the normal solo beats, which effectively halves the number of patrols…(read more)
BREAKING: Six Baltimore Police Officers Charged in Freddie Gray Death
Posted: May 21, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore City District Courthouses, Baltimore Police Department, Brian Rice, Criminal charge, Detention (imprisonment), Manslaughter, murder, Police officer, Red Lake massacre, State's attorney 1 Comment
Officer Caesar Goodson, driver of transport van, faces second-degree murder charge
BALTIMORE—Scott Calvert, Kris Maher and Joe Palazzolo report: Six city police officers were charged Friday in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old man who suffered fatal spinal injuries last month while in custody, a swift development in a case that has heightened the national focus on policing in black communities.
The announcement by State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, the city’s chief prosecutor, surprised many in a city where officials had cautioned for days that the investigation might not come to a quick resolution. Spontaneous celebrations broke out in some neighborhoods that were roiled by looting and violence after Mr. Gray’s funeral on Monday, while police union officials said they were disappointed in what they called a rush to judgment.
“These charges are an important step in getting justice for Freddie.”
— Richard Shipley, Mr. Gray’s stepfather
The most serious charges were brought against Officer Caesar Goodson, who was driving a police transport van that brought Mr. Gray to a police station after his April 12 arrest. Mr. Goodson, 45 years old, was charged with second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and other charges.
People celebrate after State’s Attorney Mosby announced criminal charges against all six officers suspended after Freddie Gray suffered a fatal spinal injury while in police custody in Baltimore. Photo: David Goldman/Associated Press
“I have never seen such a hurried rush to deliver criminal charges. We believe these officers will be vindicated as they have done nothing wrong.”
— Mr. Davey, president of the Baltimore police union
Officers William Porter, 25, Lt. Brian Rice, 41, and Sgt. Alicia White, 30, were each charged with involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault and misconduct in office. Officers Edward Nero, 29, and Garrett Miller,26, were charged with second-degree assault and misconduct in office. Lt. Rice and Messrs. Nero and Miller were also charged with false imprisonment for making what Ms. Mosby termed an illegal arrest of Mr. Gray.
[Read the full text here, at WSJ]
The officers surrendered to police and bail was set in amounts ranging from $250,000 to $350,000, according to court records and state officials. By Friday night, all six officers had posted bail and been released, according to public records. Like Mr. Gray, three of the officers, including Mr. Goodson, are African-American.
Mike Davey, a Baltimore attorney who represents Lt. Rice and said he was speaking for all six officers, said he thought the publicity surrounding the case had motivated the filing of charges, and that the officers would ultimately be cleared. Read the rest of this entry »
Scientist Missing For Over 20 years Found Living Inside Secret LSD Drug Lab Hidden in Basement
Posted: May 18, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, U.S. News | Tags: An American Family, ArchDaily, Architecture of England, Baltimore, Baltimore Police Department, Basement, Cottage Grove, Emergency medical technician, Lysergic acid diethylamide, Minnesota, University of Minnesota Leave a comment
A Couple from Cottage Grove, Minnesota discovers a man living inside a secret laboratory inside their basement. On Tuesday, officers with the Warrington County Sheriffs Office went to the
Morgan family’s home after receiving a call of a possible break in. When the officers pulled up they saw the Morgan Family standing by the road.
“He had clearly been living down there for a long time and had suffered severe psychological trauma probably from not socializing with anyone for a while. I don’t know if he had been living down there since the 80’s but I wouldn’t doubt it.”
“They ran up to use and said they heard a man shouting inside their basement and that’s when they called it in to 911.” Said Captain Bruce Normans with the Warrington County Sheriff’’s Office.
Officers say they could hear the man yelling in the basement the moment they entered the Morgan’s home. But when they moved cautiously into the basement they saw nothing but could hear banging sounds coming from behind the northern wall of the Morgan family’s basement, specifically echoing from behind a large storage cabinet.
“It was a very odd situation. We assumed the possibility that a vagrant may have been trapped behind the cabinet and needed help.” Officer Jim Catelli told Channel 6 news.
[Read the full text here, at Paranormal]
When the Officers moved the large metal cabinet they uncovered an entry way to a large basement room that was full of various science equipment along with a terrified, elderly man. The 83 year old man was identified as Dr. Winston Corrigan, a chemistry professor from the University of Minnesota who went missing in the fall of 1984 and was a previous resident of the home. Read the rest of this entry »
Baltimore Rioting Damage: $9 Million
Posted: May 13, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, U.S. News | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore City Fire Department, Baltimore Police Department, Barbara Mikulski, Ben Cardin, Business, Elijah Cummings, Maryland, Small Business Administration, United States Department of Justice 1 Comment
Damage from rioting in Baltimore over the death of a black man from injuries in police custody is estimated at $9 million, a U.S. government survey showed on Wednesday.
The survey by the Small Business Administration found that more than 30 businesses and one home sustained major damage between April 25 and May 3 in unrest sparked by the death of Freddie Gray, 25.
“The Baltimore Development Corp, a non-profit group that promotes economic development, said 351 business reported damages and inventory loss.”
The survey also found 254 businesses and one home experienced minor damage.
Damages to businesses totaled $8,927,000, and to homes $60,000, a Small Business Administration spokeswoman said.
“The mayor’s office has said 144 vehicles were set ablaze.”
Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, in a letter on Tuesday also signed by fellow Maryland Democratic Senator Ben Cardin and U.S. Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings, called on the Small Business Administration to help with the creation of disaster centers.
They also urged the agency to come up with a plan to inform business owners who are eligible for benefits about how to apply for disaster loan assistance.
A spokesman for the Baltimore Fire Department said the city recorded 61 structural fires over April 27 and 28, during the height of the arson and looting. The mayor’s office previously said that 15 buildings were burned.
The spokesman had no update for the number of burned vehicles. The mayor’s office has said 144 vehicles were set ablaze. Read the rest of this entry »
As Many as 30,000 Police Officers Gather to Honor Fallen NYPD Officer #BrianMoore
Posted: May 8, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Law & Justice, Mediasphere | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Police Department, Brian Moore, media, NBC News, NBC Nightly News, news, North Charleston, NYPD, Police officer, South Carolina, Twitter, Walter Scott Leave a comment
As many as 30,000 police officers gather to honor fallen NYPD officer #BrianMoore http://t.co/Y0uZBM0m4f @NBCNewYork pic.twitter.com/nc9NZJivbg
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) May 8, 2015
The Battle of Seattle & The Silence of Bambi
Posted: May 2, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, White House | Tags: anarcho-syndicalists, Associated Press, Baltimore Police Department, Barack Obama, Chris Fowler, International Workers' Day, May Day, Olga Rodriguez, Seattle, Seattle Police Department, State Dinner Leave a comment
Obama Mute After May Day Riot Re-Ruins Seattle
Unlike Baltimore, Seattle is not governed entirely by members of the president’s Democratic party. One Seattle city council member belongs to the Socialist Alternative party
Tim Cavanaugh writes: The morning after hipster rioters turned a May Day demonstration into a replay of the 1999 Battle in Seattle, President Obama boarded Marine One and departed for an overnight retreat without commenting on unrest in U.S. cities that has spread to the Pacific coast.
“We’ve seen too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals — primarily African-American and often poor — in ways that raise troubling questions.”
— President Obama, last Tuesday
The president stopped to fist bump with the child of an Associated Press staffer on a sunny Saturday before choppering out of the capital. But he made no comment on the Friday night rioting in Seattle, Wash.
“But he provided no such context for Friday’s confrontation between Seattle police and a crowd of largely white anarcho-syndicalists.”
Seattle rioters threw bottles and bricks at police; smashed and tagged property; and attacked reporters and other civilians in unrest that left three officers injured. Police Chief Chris Fowler declared Friday evening that the situation had “turned into a riot.”
“Obama beguiled readers of his exquisitely wrought memoir Dreams From My Father with tales of his youthful friendships among Marxist poets and punk rockers….”
Obama’s silence on the mayhem in one of North America’s most progressive cities contrasted with his loquacity earlier in the week, when the president as well as his staff spoke at length after Baltimore erupted in destructive but non-lethal rioting.
“But the president has been less eager to attach himself publicly to historic economic-justice movements, or to their extensive legacies of violence.”
“We’ve seen too many instances,” the president announced Tuesday, “of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals — primarily African-American and often poor — in ways that raise troubling questions.”
“He is presently lobbying Congress for a bill that would give more power to the executive branch in order to conclude a Pacific Rim trade treaty — an agreement strongly opposed by his own party’s left wing.”
But he provided no such context for Friday’s confrontation between Seattle police and a crowd of largely white anarcho-syndicalists. White House pool reporters did not ask the president about the violence in the Emerald City, and the White House has not issued a statement. Read the rest of this entry »
Next Week’s New Yorker Cover ‘Injustice: #Baltimore, 2015’, by Peter Mendelsund
Posted: May 1, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Breaking News, Global, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: media, news, Riot, Police officer, Illustration, design, Ballistic trauma, Magazines, Baltimore, Bloods, The New Yorker, Baltimore Police Department, Peter Mendelsund, The Baltimore Sun 1 Comment
An early look at next week’s cover, “Injustice: Baltimore, 2015,” by Peter Mendelsund.
Police Arrest, Release, Arrest the Man who Caught Freddie Gray’s Arrest on Video
Posted: May 1, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: African American, Arrest, Baltimore, Baltimore Police Department, Detention (imprisonment), Maryland, Police brutality, Police officer, Protest, Spinal cord injury Leave a comment
BALTIMORE— Colin Daileda writes: The man who recorded video of Baltimore police officers arresting Freddie Gray was himself arrested on Thursday, according to reports.
Kevin Moore, whose video of the arrest was widely circulated, said he has faced intimidation from police since April 12 when police apprehended Gray.
You can watch a discussion with Moore about his experience since recording the video, below.
Moore said officers had plastered his photo all over the Internet, saying they wanted to interview him.
Officers arrested Moore on Thursday night during a protest against police brutality in Baltimore. They released him later that evening, reportedly without revealing the charges. He didn’t receive a citation, either. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] #Baltimore: City State’s Attorney Says Freddie Gray’s Arrest Illegal, Charges Officers
Posted: May 1, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Police Department, CBS News, CNN, Depraved-heart murder, Manslaughter, murder, Police officer, State's attorney Leave a comment
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby says Freddie Gray received his critical injuries in Baltimore police custody and has charged all six officers involved in his death.
The state medical examiner’s office turned over Gray’s autopsy on Friday morning, a day after the police turned over their investigation into Gray’s death.
“The findings of our comprehensive, thorough, and independent investigation coupled with the ME’s determination that Mr. Gray’s death was a homicide which we received today, has led us to believe that we have probable cause to file criminal charges,” Mosby said.
She charged all six officers in the death of Gray and said his arrest was illegal.
“Following transport from Baker Street, Mr. Gray suffered a severe and critical neck injury as a result of being handcuffed, shackled by his feet and unrestrained inside of the BPD wagon,” Mosby said.
“At no point was he secured by a seatbelt while in the wagon contrary to a BPD general order,” she added. “Despite stopping for the purpose of checking on Mr. Gray’s condition, at no point did he seek nor render any medical assistance for Mr. Gray.”
- The officers are being charged with a number of counts of manslaughter, assault and misconduct. One officer will even be charged with a count of murder.
- Officer Caeser B. Goodson, Jr. was charged with second-degree depraved heart murder, involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault, two counts of manslaughter by vehicle and misconduct in office.
- Officer William G. Porter was charged with involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault and misconduct in office.
- Lt. Brian W. Rice was charged with involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree assault, two counts of misconduct in office and false imprisonment.
- Officer Edward M. Nero charged with two counts of second-degree assault, two counts of misconduct in office and false imprisonment.
- Officer Garret Miller charged with two counts of second-degree assault, two counts of misconduct in office and false imprisonment.
- Sgt. Alicia White involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault and misconduct in office.
Warrants have been issued for the arrest of the officers…(read more)
#Baltimore: Rioters Show Respect for Portraits of President Obama and Martin Luther King Jr.
Posted: April 28, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore City Hall, Baltimore Police Department, Baltimore Protests, Baltimore Riots, Barack Obama, Bloods, Boston Red Sox, CBS, Crips, Martin Luther King Jr, MLK, Papa Palace, Police officer Leave a comment
“They bashed a hole right in the middle of the picture. Like they do not care about anything.”
Benny Johnson writes:
Essam, the owner of the looted and torched Papa Palace in West Baltimore was walking IJReview through the burnt out ruins of his shop.
When he paused and showed us something unexpected: What the protesters did to the presidential portrait that was hanging in the front of his pizza store.
Essam said “They bashed a hole right in the middle of the picture. Like they do not care about anything.”
OH YES SHE DID: CNN’s Brooke Baldwin Blames Military Veterans for #Baltimore Riots
Posted: April 28, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Police Department, Barack Obama, Ben Montgomery, Brooke Baldwin, CNN, Democrat Monopoly, Elijah Cummings, JOHN NOLTE, Left Wing, Racism, U.S. Military, Veteran Leave a comment
Baldwin and CNN just can’t help themselves
John Nolte reports:
UPDATE: Via Twitter, Baldwin is bizarrely attempting to deflect blame away from herself. I say bizarre because most of us first hear things from others. We then go through the grown-up process of filtering out anti-science smears. Baldwin chose to repeat this one:
Folks. Please don’t misunderstand me. Dear friends/family of mine are veterans. I was repeating a concern vocalized to me lately. That’s it.
— Brooke Baldwin (@BrookeBCNN) April 28, 2015
After more than a year of CNN pouring gasoline all over America with hysterical, and oftentimes phony, stories of American racism, the left-wing network’s afternoon anchor Brooke Baldwin finally took it to the next level by blaming American veterans for the Baltimore riots.
[Note: The Washington Free Beacon‘s YouTube page is the video source]
[See the full text of John Nolte‘s article here, at Brietbart.com]
In a pathetic suck-up interview with Democrat Congressman Elijah Cummins, Baldwin never once had the moral courage to ask the failed Baltimore City congressman if the left-wing policies ushered in by a half-century of a Democrat monopoly in Baltimore might have something to do with the city’s ills. Instead, she said of young military veterans who become police officers, “I love our nation’s veterans, but some of them are coming back from war, they don’t know the communities, and they are ready to do battle.” Read the rest of this entry »
Baltimore Officer is Unconscious
Posted: April 27, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Law & Justice, Mediasphere | Tags: Ballistic trauma, Baltimore, Baltimore City Hall, Baltimore Mayor, Baltimore Police, Baltimore Police Department, Police officer, protests, Riots, Violence Leave a comment#Baltimore officer is unconscious!!! Retweet and send your prayers for him!!!!! #BaltimoreMayor #BaltimorePD pic.twitter.com/gayNmjxIiu
— SexyPatriots™ (@MolonLabe1776us) April 27, 2015
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