[VIDEO] Patrick Brennan: Baltimore’s Mayor Says She Intend to to Give Protesters ‘Space’ to ‘Destroy. But What Happened Anyway?
Posted: April 27, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, U.S. News | Tags: Baltimore, Bill de Blasio, Ferguson, Freedom of the press, Jean Quan, Louis Farrakhan, Malik Zulu Shabazz, Missouri, National Review, News conference, NRO, Patrick Brennan, Protest, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake 2 Comments
At The Corner, Patrick Brennan writes: Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says that she didn’t mean, in some comments she delivered Sunday, that the protesters/rioters in Baltimore had been intentionally given “space” to “destroy” property. “The mayor is not saying that she asked police to give space to people who sought to create violence,” a spokesman says, a day after she made the comments. (A raft of outlets reported them this morning in the way she says she didn’t mean them.)
Whatever exactly she meant, it certainly seems that the Baltimore police took a hands-off approach to the unrest over the weekend, allowing the crowds to grow violent and unruly while doing little in response.
This is your mayor on Xanax.
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) April 27, 2015
[Read the full text here, at The Corner, National Review Online]
Presumably this is motivated in part by the sense that the protesters had some legitimate grievance and in part because it’s supposed to work, to help defuse the situation. Well, does it? Read the rest of this entry »
Farrakhan: Giuliani a ‘Privileged Cracker Devil’
Posted: February 24, 2015 Filed under: Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Associated Press, Barack Obama, Black people, Chicago, Foreign Policy, Louis Farrakhan, Mayor of New York City, Nation of Islam, Rudy Giuliani, United States 1 Comment
Pam Key writes: Sunday at Christ Universal Temple in Chicago during his annual Saviours’ Day speech, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan attacked former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for his controversial comments saying Obama doesn’t love America.
Farrakhan said, “How did you grow up, Giuliani? A privileged cracker? Or I should say, a privileged devil….(read more)
RFK Jr.: Sharpton a Buffoon, ‘Has Done More Damage to the Black Cause Than George Wallace’
Posted: September 9, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, New York, New York Post, Robert F. Kennedy, Tawana Brawley rape allegations, United States 1 Comment
RFK Jr. also kept notes for his journal during his month-long stint in a Puerto Rican prison that July. He, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson’s wife, Jacqueline, were charged with trespassing during protests on Vieques, the Puerto Rican island the US Navy used as a bombing range.
The Revs. Jackson and Sharpton “give me the creeps,” Kennedy writes in a July 5 entry.
“Al Sharpton has done more damage to the black cause than [segregationist Alabama Gov.] George Wallace. He has suffocated the decent black leaders in New York,” he says. “His transparent venal blackmail and extortion schemes taint all black leadership.”
Rev. Al Sharpton gave Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “the creeps,” he wrote in his diary. Read the rest of this entry »
