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Baltimore Police: Gangs Enter Partnership to ‘Take-Out’ Officers [W:99]

No, the criminals took over because of aggressive policing.

*Sigh* ok let's unpack this a little bit...No, the criminals took over because of opportunity, enabled by the 'dumb as a box of rocks' Mayor that had the ability before this day to heed the intel, and beef up police presence, and make arrests to let the criminals know that this would not be tolerated, PERIOD! She failed, and just cost Balto millions!

You're talking POST incident, I'm saying curtailing the aggressiveness PRE incident will remove possible excuses for these criminals to take over in the first place.

No again, I asked you to breech this river of pseudo intellectual pablum, to highlight just how dangerous it is to placate the criminals, and anarchists that were driving the opportunist outbreak last night. Look, it was dangerous for anyone that wasn't a black resident to enter these areas BEFORE the riot last night, largely because the police were undermanned and over taxed....So, please don't try and give me the 'kinder, gentler' approach....Balto has a gang problem, and a drug problem...To lessen the police footprint is to give up.

Fundamentally, however, the reasons why those criminals and thugs exist in such large numbers needs to be addressed.

What does that even mean? Because what I read in that sentence is do nothing while we all get together and talk, talk, talk....Meanwhile the city is destroyed....

But cops killing more people, that will only cause it to get worse. And once it's started, you're screwed because now you have to respond with more aggressive policing and the cycle of hate and aggression and violence takes over.

More dead cops won't help either, but I know, that's not as important as protecting the poor misunderstood thug....Maybe some chocolate chip cookies will help....

We cannot allow that cycle to establish and that means, in part, curtailing police activities prior so that you don't get Baltimore's or Ferguson's in the first place.

Less policing = More crime. That's a fact.

This sort of powder keg explosions need to stop.

On that we agree...

You also then have to address the socio-economical problems that plague our inner cities and crime ridden areas in order to try to produce more positive community interactions and decrease criminal activity.

Wow, you touched all the catch phrase nothing speak right there....You should have just said pay reparations.

None of which is a "wave the wand" sort of system where we can magically cure it. It will take time and effort, but if we do it right we will end up all the better for it.

Ok, so, weeding through the babble, this is what I hear from you....

Weaken police authority
Hope that the criminal element won't take advantage
More give away's
Leave more innocent citizens vulnerable to crime.

In short...Make our urban cities less safe....All because you don't like the 'oh so scary' military look of riot police....

Where am I wrong?
 
Has anyone heard why the incident is still under investigation and has anyone been charged with wrongdoing? They released the names of the officers but refuse to release their pictures. Is that common practice? Three of the officers have been identified as white from a video. I read that Baltimore is one city that practices black on black policing. This arrest occurred in a black community across the street from a government housing project in front of boarded up row houses and is known for high criminal activity.

Investigations take time. Certainly more than a week to conclude...The officers involved are on administrative suspension, and the local internal affairs, State investigative agency, and the DoJ are all investigating....Part of the problem I see with these instances today, are that the crowd, or public if you will seem not to want due process to take place, but rather someone punished immediately.
 
*Sigh* ok let's unpack this a little bit...No, the criminals took over because of opportunity, enabled by the 'dumb as a box of rocks' Mayor that had the ability before this day to heed the intel, and beef up police presence, and make arrests to let the criminals know that this would not be tolerated, PERIOD! She failed, and just cost Balto millions!

And what started it all?

No again, I asked you to breech this river of pseudo intellectual pablum, to highlight just how dangerous it is to placate the criminals, and anarchists that were driving the opportunist outbreak last night. Look, it was dangerous for anyone that wasn't a black resident to enter these areas BEFORE the riot last night, largely because the police were undermanned and over taxed....So, please don't try and give me the 'kinder, gentler' approach....Balto has a gang problem, and a drug problem...To lessen the police footprint is to give up.

And yet what was the spark? What gave the opportunity for these criminals to lash out? It wasn't decades of "low police involvement", there's that in many places that still haven't broken out in riot. What event spawned this latest explosion? Was it kinder, gentler police action? Or was it the police killing another person?

What does that even mean? Because what I read in that sentence is do nothing while we all get together and talk, talk, talk....Meanwhile the city is destroyed....

It means there are fundamental reasons why certain sectors of the city have deteriorated and if you really want to solve the problem, you'll need to address that and fix that.

More dead cops won't help either, but I know, that's not as important as protecting the poor misunderstood thug....Maybe some chocolate chip cookies will help....

More dead cops won't help, nor did I say it will. But more dead citizens at the hands of cops won't help either.

Less policing = More crime. That's a fact.

Who said anything about no policing? It's the level of force that needs to be brought under control.

Wow, you touched all the catch phrase nothing speak right there....You should have just said pay reparations.

If I meant reparations, I would have said it. I said socio-economic problems because those are some of the root causes of this problem. Stagnation contributes significantly to the problems and violence we see.

Ok, so, weeding through the babble, this is what I hear from you....

Weaken police authority
Hope that the criminal element won't take advantage
More give away's
Leave more innocent citizens vulnerable to crime.

In short...Make our urban cities less safe....All because you don't like the 'oh so scary' military look of riot police....

Where am I wrong?

Pretty much as soon as you tried to summarize my points and instead turned it into political tripe. The levels of force the government uses against its citizens needs to be brought into reasonable levels. Cops and communities need to be brought back into proper contact with each other to develop the relationships necessary for functional operation. Policing still needs to occur, laws still need to be upheld, but we can't allow the continuation of suspicious deaths at the hands of the police to continue as those just exacerbate the situation and give these criminals exactly what they want, an excuse. Furthermore, the underlying stagnation needs to be addressed, the causes for it discovered and remedied, to pull people back into community mindsets and allow individuals the opportunity to advance and escape the cycles they are currently trapped in.

Far cry from that intellectually dishonest "summary" you gave, huh?
 
Investigations take time. Certainly more than a week to conclude...The officers involved are on administrative suspension, and the local internal affairs, State investigative agency, and the DoJ are all investigating....Part of the problem I see with these instances today, are that the crowd, or public if you will seem not to want due process to take place, but rather someone punished immediately.
That's right so the thugs had to move before a couple of cops are arrested for mistreating the guy or god forbid they learn that the guy fell and hit his neck on his bunk in jail.
 
Chilling.

I initially felt like I was watching the 'riot scene' scene from of Spike Lee's'Do the Right Thing'!

There we go - she apparently subscribes to the same 'go anywhere, do anything' method of parenting that I do.

I raised teenagers & have always allowed the option to go anywhere, physically, to get & keep my kids out of trouble. I never had to exercise that course of action with my kids, but my father & I did with my younger brother. I respect my father greatly for his actions - I feel it is the ultimate act of love & parenting! And again years later, when my Pop was a lot older and not as street-savvy or physically capable to the goings-on in the old neighborhood, I followed his example to extricate my brother from another troubled situation - that extrication caused a turn in his life that has continued (not perfectly, but substantially) to this day. And my brother still thanks me until today.

This is called 'love & responsibility to family'.
 
Does anyone believe there would be riots in Baltimore if the Police had inititiated a "HOMICIDE" investigation of Freddie Gray's death. Broken necks are not accidental deaths and are not died in custody. Damage inflicted upon Freddie Gray by Baltimore Police killed Gray. That would be homicide at some level. I believe the starting point to any solution begin with a public homicide investigation.

I can't speak for Baltimore, but I used to work out with quite a few cops, who let me into their inner circle, since I was trying to get on the local police force. They told me about a Navy boxer they arrested, who best the living crap out of 5 cops before they could subdue him. They talked of "accidentally" dropping him out of the paddy wagon, accidentally slamming a door in his face, and accidentally tripping him so he would fall down the stairs at the local precinct. That was in the late 60's. That stuff still happens today.
 
With all the recent episodes of cops killing blacks have any of the so-called "victims" been clean of having a police record, been clean on being stoned at the time, been clean of possessing a weapon like this punk in Baltimore being 24 yrs. old and carrying a switchblade? Every last one of them are criminals. The 55 year old that owed $25,000 in back child support, Trevor Martin stoned and out at way past midnight (nice job parents or mother only as daddy left years ago.) The big boy that suffocated had a record a mile long. In EVERY case they were running or resisting. NOT GUILTY on every charge put forth against the people enforcing the law. They are the lawless now they are the lifeless, as it should be.
 
I can't speak for Baltimore, but I used to work out with quite a few cops, who let me into their inner circle, since I was trying to get on the local police force. They told me about a Navy boxer they arrested, who best the living crap out of 5 cops before they could subdue him. They talked of "accidentally" dropping him out of the paddy wagon, accidentally slamming a door in his face, and accidentally tripping him so he would fall down the stairs at the local precinct. That was in the late 60's. That stuff still happens today.
Oh no, this thug beats up cops and they retaliate? How awful, I thought we could do anything we want to in America and then scream "police brutality" when held accountable.
 
Oh no, this thug beats up cops and they retaliate? How awful, I thought we could do anything we want to in America and then scream "police brutality" when held accountable.

He was drunk and disorderly and didn't want to go willingly. Back then beating up cops wasn't so bad. I had a friend, who was very strong and was a Golden Gloves champion. He got a little too much to drink and got in a fight with a couple of bouncers. He decked them. Then there were 3 cops working there as bouncers. He tore them apart. Finally, somebody got him from behind and knocked him out. They chained him in the paddy wagon. His fine was $200 and a 30-day suspended jail sentence. Nowadays, they will give you years in jail for what he did. It probably helped him that the 3 cops in question, never identified themselves as cops and weren't in uniform.
 
I can't speak for Baltimore, but I used to work out with quite a few cops, who let me into their inner circle, since I was trying to get on the local police force. They told me about a Navy boxer they arrested, who best the living crap out of 5 cops before they could subdue him. They talked of "accidentally" dropping him out of the paddy wagon, accidentally slamming a door in his face, and accidentally tripping him so he would fall down the stairs at the local precinct. That was in the late 60's. That stuff still happens today.

He had it comming if you ask me.

He's also very lucky he lived through that ordeal. You " Box " a Cop today and you'll get a bullet for your trooubles and rightly so.

Sure there's bad Cops, but that doesn't justify what those animals did to their own city.

There are law abiding hard working people living in Baltimore who are now unemployed thanks to those idiots. People who put time and money into building something just so a bunch of low lifes could destroy it.

" Black Lives " only matter when they're taken by White Police Officers. The ongoing murders and Gun violence and out of control Black on Black violence in places like Chicago ?

Where are the protesters ?
 
Just compare these protests with the recent events in Ukraine.

As the fires were burning on the street and when folks were throwing gas bombs at the police, and attacking opposing groups, John McCain and Victoria Nuland turned up with sandwiches for the protesters. The media did not call the protesters "Outsiders" and "Sh?t Disturbers ..... they were to be admired for demanding change and taking their country back from government cronies.

Calm
 
He had it comming if you ask me.

He's also very lucky he lived through that ordeal. You " Box " a Cop today and you'll get a bullet for your trooubles and rightly so.

Sure there's bad Cops, but that doesn't justify what those animals did to their own city.

There are law abiding hard working people living in Baltimore who are now unemployed thanks to those idiots. People who put time and money into building something just so a bunch of low lifes could destroy it.

" Black Lives " only matter when they're taken by White Police Officers. The ongoing murders and Gun violence and out of control Black on Black violence in places like Chicago ?

Where are the protesters ?

Oh, you and I are on the same page, but I was merely pointing out that cops can be bad. Gone are the days when cops would duke it out with a felon. If the tazer doesn't work, then it's shoot first, and let the lawyers sort it out.

About a year ago, a local young cop stopped a black guy for driving a stolen SUV. As he was exiting his patrol car, the unarmed burly black guy jumped out and beat the cop, almost to death. They got the black guy, and he was sentenced to a long prison term. This cop had been on the force about 2 years. With what he experienced, I bet he shoots first next time, whether the guy is unarmed or not. The policeman had activated his patrol car camera so everyone had a bird's eye view of the perp.
 
and accidentally tripping him so he would fall down the stairs at the local precinct. That was in the late 60's. That stuff still happens today.
This was such an integral part of the 'difficult arrest experience' during the '60's & '70's in my big-city local precinct, that it euphemistically had the name, 'tripped down the stairs', and was part of the common neighborhood vernacular. (a very insular 'cops & fireman' neighborhood, with a strong foundation of criminality & political malfeasance)

One really bad guy (and not mincing words - he was really bad news), 'tripped so badly' he died - but then this neighborhood produced one of the more egregious recent era cases of serial, continual, group police torture & forced confessions, and quite honestly during those days most of the neighborhood felt 'results' occurring in the back of cop-shops were preferable to the vagaries of the legal system.

It was a very tough neighborhood & time.
 
Just compare these protests with the recent events in Ukraine.

As the fires were burning on the street and when folks were throwing gas bombs at the police, and attacking opposing groups, John McCain and Victoria Nuland turned up with sandwiches for the protesters. The media did not call the protesters "Outsiders" and "Sh?t Disturbers ..... they were to be admired for demanding change and taking their country back from government cronies.

Calm

McCain may not have showed up in Baltimore, but Sharpton and Jessie were there, spouting their typical brand of racist bull **** to stir up the masses. Isn't there a law against inciting a riot?
 
And what started it all?



And yet what was the spark? What gave the opportunity for these criminals to lash out? It wasn't decades of "low police involvement", there's that in many places that still haven't broken out in riot. What event spawned this latest explosion? Was it kinder, gentler police action? Or was it the police killing another person?



It means there are fundamental reasons why certain sectors of the city have deteriorated and if you really want to solve the problem, you'll need to address that and fix that.



More dead cops won't help, nor did I say it will. But more dead citizens at the hands of cops won't help either.



Who said anything about no policing? It's the level of force that needs to be brought under control.



If I meant reparations, I would have said it. I said socio-economic problems because those are some of the root causes of this problem. Stagnation contributes significantly to the problems and violence we see.



Pretty much as soon as you tried to summarize my points and instead turned it into political tripe. The levels of force the government uses against its citizens needs to be brought into reasonable levels. Cops and communities need to be brought back into proper contact with each other to develop the relationships necessary for functional operation. Policing still needs to occur, laws still need to be upheld, but we can't allow the continuation of suspicious deaths at the hands of the police to continue as those just exacerbate the situation and give these criminals exactly what they want, an excuse. Furthermore, the underlying stagnation needs to be addressed, the causes for it discovered and remedied, to pull people back into community mindsets and allow individuals the opportunity to advance and escape the cycles they are currently trapped in.

Far cry from that intellectually dishonest "summary" you gave, huh?

Ok Ikari...I understand what you are saying, and the death of this young man in Balto, still under investigation, will have a conclusion. But, what you are talking about are the very same do nothing catch phrasing that allows the cycle as you put it to continue as well...Do you know what these kids learned last night? They learned that Balto has NO leadership, and if the opportunity arises, they can go out and burn, loot, and assault with NO consequence..The underlying "socio-economic" meme's that you bring up have been beaten to death. It boils down to people wanting to get themselves out of their poverty, not waiting, or demanding that everyone else do it for them....Was Freddy Grey mistreated? In the aspect of not getting immediate medical attention, hell yes. As for the other claims, I am not sure yet, but it doesn't look good for the Department....

But I will just say that looking for ways to make excuses for these kids last night rather than calling those who should be accountable for NOT maintaining peace, ie; the Mayor, who completely f'd up when she made the statement about giving them space to destroy, then this will continue.....She gave the green light, basically telling the troublemakers that nothing will happen if they cut loose....It was irresponsible, and stupid....

Baltimore has about 3200 police officers, not nearly enough for a city of that size, and "socio-economic" make up...All I can say is in watching that crap last night, I am so glad I moved to SC 8 years ago, and don't have to be around that BS kind of leadership.
 
With all the recent episodes of cops killing blacks have any of the so-called "victims" been clean of having a police record, been clean on being stoned at the time, been clean of possessing a weapon like this punk in Baltimore being 24 yrs. old and carrying a switchblade? Every last one of them are criminals. The 55 year old that owed $25,000 in back child support, Trevor Martin stoned and out at way past midnight (nice job parents or mother only as daddy left years ago.) The big boy that suffocated had a record a mile long. In EVERY case they were running or resisting. NOT GUILTY on every charge put forth against the people enforcing the law. They are the lawless now they are the lifeless, as it should be.

I know. And I bet some of those thugs even speed and illegally download copyrighted songs and movies off the internet.

And that guy in the Wal-mart that the police put down for holding a pellet gun he picked up off of one of the shelves? He brought that **** on himself. He should know that his kind have no business getting anywhere near a gun, even toy ones. If black people wanted to be able to walk around openly with rifles without being killed on sight they should have had the good sense to be born white.

Amirite?
 
Ok Ikari...I understand what you are saying, and the death of this young man in Balto, still under investigation, will have a conclusion. But, what you are talking about are the very same do nothing catch phrasing that allows the cycle as you put it to continue as well...Do you know what these kids learned last night? They learned that Balto has NO leadership, and if the opportunity arises, they can go out and burn, loot, and assault with NO consequence..The underlying "socio-economic" meme's that you bring up have been beaten to death. It boils down to people wanting to get themselves out of their poverty, not waiting, or demanding that everyone else do it for them....Was Freddy Grey mistreated? In the aspect of not getting immediate medical attention, hell yes. As for the other claims, I am not sure yet, but it doesn't look good for the Department....

But I will just say that looking for ways to make excuses for these kids last night rather than calling those who should be accountable for NOT maintaining peace, ie; the Mayor, who completely f'd up when she made the statement about giving them space to destroy, then this will continue.....She gave the green light, basically telling the troublemakers that nothing will happen if they cut loose....It was irresponsible, and stupid....

Baltimore has about 3200 police officers, not nearly enough for a city of that size, and "socio-economic" make up...All I can say is in watching that crap last night, I am so glad I moved to SC 8 years ago, and don't have to be around that BS kind of leadership.

After the fact, there was a lot of mismanagement. Once things start to blow up, you're fudged. At that point, you have to bring in more police, you have to have a bigger and more aggressive presence in order to return order. You can't allow the rioting and looting to continue, it's not acceptable and it is not how you influence the system in order to try to correct long standing systematics. But we cannot glance over the root causes, or laugh off the socio-economic stagnation that has gripped many of our cities, since these lead to the buildup of frustrations that eventually come to ahead and then allow criminal agents to exploit.

If we're interested in solving the issue, then we have to take steps to solving it. Part if it is to reign in government power and use of force against the citizens. If the cops shoot dead another kid in some other city under suspect conditions, the same thing will happen; only it will be amplified.
 
Is there some reason you think the Baltimore Police Department receives comparable intel to the president of the United states?

Well, do the Baltimore Police Department watch the daily news? If so, they probably recieve comparable intel.*


*:this is a joke.
 
I'm not condoning anything. They have had plenty of time to determine who did what in a matter of a couple hours. They refuse to release the pictures of all the cops involved while the angry black mob is attacking white people. 43% of the police force is African-American according to Wiki....

"During Martin O'Malley's administration as mayor, the department had become 43% African American.[25] While progress has been made to improve the department's relationship with Baltimore's now majority African American community, improvements are still being made to the department which for several years has been subject to criticism for its treatment of African American citizens. Police community relations have remained strained with the war on drugs that has plagued several African American neighborhoods in East and West Baltimore and coincidentally enough, many of the most despised officers in several of Baltimore's African American neighborhoods are also African American.[26]"

Baltimore Police Department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




Why are white people hanging around there?
 
Baltimore Police: Gangs Enter Partnership to ‘Take-Out’ Officers

Baltimore Police: Gangs Enter Partnership to ‘Take-Out’ Officers « CBS DC

WASHINGTON — The Baltimore Police Department says they have received a credible threat that numerous gangs have entered into a partnership to “take-out” law enforcement officers.

If this was the case, and there is an "all out war" in Baltimore, as right wing media have characterized it, why were no cops "taken out" ?
 
I know. And I bet some of those thugs even speed and illegally download copyrighted songs and movies off the internet.

And that guy in the Wal-mart that the police put down for holding a pellet gun he picked up off of one of the shelves? He brought that **** on himself. He should know that his kind have no business getting anywhere near a gun, even toy ones. If black people wanted to be able to walk around openly with rifles without being killed on sight they should have had the good sense to be born white.

Amirite?

Actually, Mr. Gray was an altar boy like Treyvon and Michael Brown;

Freddie Gray's Arrest Record:
3/20/2015 Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Substance
3/13/2015 Malicious destruction of property, second degree assault.
1/20/2015 Fourth-degree burglary, trespassing
1/14/2015 Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Substance, possession of a controlled
substance with intent to distribute
12/31/2014 Possession of narcotics with intent to distribute
12/14/2014 Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Substance
8/31/2014 Illegal gambling, trespassing
1/25/2014 Possession of Marijuana
9/28/2013 Distribution of narcotics, unlawful possion of a controlled substance,
second-degree assault, second-degree escape
4/13/2012 Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Substance, possession of a controlled
substance with intent to distribute, violation of probation
7/16/2008 Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Substance, possession of a controlled
substance with intent to distribute
3/28/2008 Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Substance
3/14/2008 Possesion of a Controlled substance, possession with intent to manufacture
and distribute.
2/11/2008 Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Substance
8/29/2007 Possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute,
violation of parole.
8/28/2007 Possession of Marijuana
8/23/2007 False statements to a Peace Officer, unlawful possession of a controlled
dangerous substance.
7/16/2007 Possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute,
unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance (2 counts)

(Maryland DOJ)

I do not defend or indict the officers. The case is still pending.
 

Sharpton is a fellow protester and thus both him and Jesse have an agenda and they have always been viewed as spokespersons.

But John McCain is a U.S. Senator ..... and who has a history of supporting violent protests as he has done within several countries worldwide.

Why would John McCain support and openly encourage violent protests in most every other country within the universe but not his own country?

Calm
 
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Here in Seattle, and in the media, I keep hearing about the changes they want to make to police department policies and police training. Prez Obama mentioned some things in his press conf. this am. What I never hear is hiring more minority cops If the problem is such an obvious gap where the conflicts end up being a cop and a suspect or victim of different races or ethnicities...where are the investments and plans to go and recruit minorities? What incentives can they offer? Why isnt this already a HUGE investment...have I just not heard about it?

The Seattle police force has been under scrutiny and even federal mandates to fix issues of excessive force (and other things) for years. They have attempted to hire new police leadership of color, and to focus on training for racial sensitivity, but I've heard nothing about efforts to recruit minorities.

Why is this?
 
Actually, Mr. Gray was an altar boy like Treyvon and Michael Brown;

Freddie Gray's Arrest Record:
3/20/2015 Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Substance

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Ah, but the question here is not one of the deceased's (admittedly extensive) criminal record, but of possible police wrong-doing.

I do not defend or indict the officers. The case is still pending.
Which appears very reasonable on the surface, but there are concerns as to the accuracy of the results.

There is a groundswell of lack-of-faith in our police & their ability to investigate themselves, along with structural defects in the legal system with regards to police activity. This is growing in perception to be the greater problem - not a problem of a 'rotten apple', but one of structural defects, including in the investigative/prosecutorial mechanisms.
 
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Thank you too for a thoughtful post. But here when you say "people are angry," you need to distinguish between those who have gathered to protest for the purpose of demanding answers--overdue--about Freddie Gray and those who are destroying their own neighborhoods and trying to seize opportunities. They don't give a damn about Freddie Gray, and they're a distraction.

It's not just Baltimore that needs answers--concerned citizens across the nation are troubled too and want to know how this young man came to die. This should be about Freddie Gray. There is no excuse for the rioting and looting, and I don't think that the people perpetrating these crimes are coming to any conclusions because they aren't thinking at all.

I hope the presence of the National Guard will settle the situation down so that the good, decent people of Baltimore can rest easy in their own homes and not fear for their businesses.

Oh, I definitely do distinguish between them. However, I also see that the overwhelming majority of these rioters and protesters all seem to be attacking the same general target while a small minority is focused on attacking private property. If you watch the protests, the property being destroyed is almost entirely state owned; parks, garbage cans, police cars. Yes, some private businesses are being targeted but they simply do not represent the majority of what is being attacked. That is a textbook example of a people lashing out against the state. I'm not comparing it to the tea party in Boston or the Arab Spring but the similarities are still there. People are attacking the property owned by a state that they see as being a failure even after it supposedly made promises to bring more equality.

Of course, it's no excuse for the looting itself and I in no way condone it. However, I see these protests and the general rioting as a lashing out that occurred because the justice system failed to correct itself when people weren't rioting. Baltimore PD has paid off over 100 victims of police brutality in the last few years. That's not a resolution of the issue. That's hush money. Baltimore PD has paid off 5 million in 3 years for its brutality. Sounds like a small number of people until you realize that it includes pregnant women, 15 year old kids, and senior citizens. This latest incident simply sparked a much larger sense of outrage and if anything, the rioting will lead to a discussion that simply did not exist before.
 
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