Things have gotten way out of control in Baltimore County following the death of Freddie Gray, but at least one mother is doing her best to make sure her son doesnt get caught up in the rioting. Look what one CNN news crew caught live on camera:
If you just decided not to make your welfare check bigger by getting knocked up by another unknown "baby daddy", 16 years ago... and now that the cute little animal has grown up... she put a little parenting in to her investment. A little too late. Now your spawn has been unleashed on the rest of us to support and be victimized for our finacial support.
I saw another video where they interviewed a (black) city council member on the street. He said it was frustration due to the lack of education, jobs, and businesses fleeing the urban areas of the city.
Note that all of these are the fault of the black community itself.
32% reported high school dropout rate (I bet it's closer to 50%). And who's going to hire someone who can't read or do simple math? Plus, businesses have moved out because of the violence.
I would have said to the councilman, "Look around you. Would you locate a business here and hire these people to work for you?"
Then I would have asked, "How is robbing that liquor store over there a protest?"
I saw another video where they interviewed a (black) city council member on the street. He said it was frustration due to the lack of education, jobs, and businesses fleeing the urban areas of the city.
What a mystery that businesses would flee demon "customers" like these.
Sounds like urban justice has given way to "just-us". As in "That's just us looting our local businesses".
#45. To: TooConservative, liberator, GarySpFc, CZ82 (#8)
Still amazes me. Not the anger at the police killing Gray, but that Blacks burn down and loot their own neighborhoods and businesses when rioting. And the Baltimore mayor sits back and says 'give them space.' And the police are more than willing to let cede the Black neighborhoods and let them burn it and loot it.
#47. To: Liberator, GarySpFc, sneakypete, TooConservative (#46)
The trend under 0bola is to "LET IT BURN." Whether here or in the ME. This guy, this regime, his "people" have a death wish. FOR AMERICA.
It took some cities 20-25 years to recover from the race riots of the late 60s and early 70s. My dad said one summer it seemed a city burned every week.
It took some cities 20-25 years to recover from the race riots of the late 60s and early 70s. My dad said one summer it seemed a city burned every week.
Some of these ghettos never recovered at all.
Must have been the summer of 1967. Dad was right (what did he do, how did he know?) That was the very summer mine and my brother's new sting-ray bicycles were stolen right off our front porch (guess by whom? Caught by the BPD cops.)
From the front of my grandmother's house in Bloomfield, NJ, I vividly remember armor rolling down Bloomfield Ave (which ran directly into the bowels of Newark.) "No prisoners-taken" tactics were utilized before the RIOTS (not "protests") got totally out of hand. Detroit erupted that same summer as well. That riot killed Detroit.
Before then, Newark was a shopping hub. Afterward, the white exodus was brisk (except for one Portuguese-Italian precinct.) On a related note, recently an arena was built in Newark to accommodate the Brooklyn Nets BB team. Attendance is understandably underwhelming. And now the NY Islanders are scheduled to play there as well. For SOME dumb reason, professional stadiums and arenas are entrenched right in the middle of hostile territory. Camden, NJ is THE worst.
Detroit was a nightmare, with brigades from the 82nd and 101st, plus over 10,000 NG. The sniping was so bad the 101st once used 50's to suppress.the sniping.
To help end the disturbance, Governor George W. Romney ordered the Michigan National Guard into Detroit, and President Lyndon B. Johnson sent in Army troops. The result was 43 dead, 1,189 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed. The scale of the riot was surpassed in the US only by the New York City draft riots, during the U.S. Civil War,[1] and the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The riot was prominently featured in the news media, with live television coverage, extensive newspaper reporting, and extensive stories in Time and Life magazines. The Detroit Free Press won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage.
Detroit was a nightmare, with brigades from the 82nd and 101st, plus over 10,000 NG. The sniping was so bad the 101st once used 50's to suppress.the sniping.
To help end the disturbance, Governor George W. Romney ordered the Michigan National Guard into Detroit, and President Lyndon B. Johnson sent in Army troops. The result was 43 dead, 1,189 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed.
Whoa. A war zone in Motown. That was THE end of Detroit. Not nearly as bad in Newark.
Never heard that 50 cal from choppers were used to quell the sniper fire. 10,000 NG were needed or else what would have been left of Detroit? Unreal. Can you believe this?? Here we are nearly 50 years later...There are black Mayors and Presidents and STILL things don't ever change in these Dem-run urban cities. Fact is, things have gotten MUCH worst. BECAUSE revenge and "social justice" is the #1 Goal of these people; NOT MLK "Dream."
Whoa. A war zone in Motown. That was THE end of Detroit. Not nearly as bad in Newark.
Never heard that 50 cal from choppers were used to quell the sniper fire. 10,000 NG were needed or else what would have been left of Detroit? Unreal. Can you believe this?? Here we are nearly 50 years later...There are black Mayors and Presidents and STILL things don't ever change in these Dem-run urban cities. Fact is, things have gotten MUCH worst. BECAUSE revenge and "social justice" is the #1 Goal of these people; NOT MLK "Dream."
Since we are on Motown. This is what was reported started the riots:
By the summer of 1967, the predominantly African- American neighborhood of Virginia Park was ready to explode. Some 60,000 poor people were crammed into the neighborhoods 460 acres, living in squalor in divided and sub-divided apartments. The Detroit Police Department, which had only about 50 African Americans at the time, was viewed as a white occupying army. The only other whites seen in the neighborhood commuted from the suburbs to run their stores on 12th Street.
At night, 12th Street was a center of Detroit inner-city nightlife, both legal and illegal. At the corner of 12th and Clairmount, William Scott operated an illegal after-hours club on weekends out of the office of the United Community League for Civic Action, a civil rights group. The police vice squad often raided establishments like this on 12th Street, and at 3:35 a.m. on Sunday morning, July 23, they moved against Scotts club.
That night, the establishment was hosting a party for several veterans, including two servicemen recently returned from Vietnam, and the bars patrons were reluctant to leave. Out in the street, a crowd began to gather as police waited for paddy wagons to take the 85 patrons away. Tensions between area blacks and police were high at the time, partly because of a rumor (later proved to be untrue) that police had shot and killed a black prostitute two days before. Then a rumor began to circulate that the vice squad had beaten one of the women being arrested.
An hour passed before the last prisoner was taken away, and by then about 200 onlookers lined the street. A bottle crashed into the street. The remaining police ignored it, but then more bottles were thrown, including one through the window of a patrol car. The police fled as a riot erupted. Within an hour, thousands of people had spilled out onto the street. Looting began on 12th Street, and some whites arrived to join in. Around 6:30 a.m., the first fire broke out, and soon much of the street was set ablaze. By midmorning, every policeman and fireman in Detroit was called to duty. On 12th Street, officers fought to control the mob. Firemen were attacked as they tried to battle the flames.
The rest of the story Gary already posted earlier.