Baltimore riots

Neither will. Folks complain of being disenfranchised but then vote the same folks in and expect change.

Rawlings is mayor until she gets elected to congress.

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Fox news shouldn't even be allowed to call themselves a news agency. I put them up there with National Enquirer.


https://www.facebook.com/ricky.kelly.948/videos/1083402581675493/?pnref=story

For years, Baltimore leadership has been striving to get businesses into "food deserts" in the city (areas where poverty high and only expensive convenience stores instead of large markets). First thing people did was loot a CVS that was the only large pharmacy/market in the area. Dumb.

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this is very true. I dont know if this is like other cities but there are good size areas of baltimore where the only food source is a liquor or ez mart. i have a client that lives there and she has to take multiple buses to get to the grocery store.

i dont consider the druid hill area all that bad. i was just up there last week taking my family to the zoo. there are some beautiful old historic homes there. the lake is there. the zoo is there. you can head 15 blocks south and you are in downtown. 83 is blocks away. we talked about how that area in 15 years will be expensive and how we could buy a big big house there now.

the area has sooo much potential to be an amazing neighborhood.

im just happy things stayed relatively localized to that area. there were unsubstantiated reports of groups in patterson park or looting in fells but i dont think they were ever confirmed. i know "bartenders' on boston street got robbed. i used to know those guys well, i heard one got hit in the head with an object.

im just worried that opportunistic criminals may do random crimes throughout the city.

it was un-nerving having to check the BCPD twitter and local CBS to see if things were spreading.

Joe - what part are you in? i think im good. we are at broadway and lombard/pratt. the 7-11 on the corner is definitely going to get it at some point. its like a mini riot there on an normal day.

It's a shame that the people who are trying to impact change in a positive way, i.e. peaceful protesting, are being lumped in with the opportunists who see a man's death as an opportunity to grab a bunch of goods and destroy property for fun. The rioters and looters will always cancel out the statement the citizens are trying to make.

And in a few weeks/months or so when it dies down (or the next prejudiced killing occurs), everybody will be asking why their message never got across, and the cycle will repeat. I'm not going to sit here and pretend I know what it's like to be profiled, or that the system is set up to fail my people. But it's a damn shame that it looks like we haven't learned anything from the civil rights demonstrations of the 60's. History just feels doomed to repeat itself in these situations.

Edit: Hope those of you close to the action stay safe, even though I don't think any progress will be made because of these riots I still hope nobody comes out of this any worse for the wear.

It's a shame that the people who are trying to impact change in a positive way, i.e. peaceful protesting, are being lumped in with the opportunists who see a man's death as an opportunity to grab a bunch of goods and destroy property for fun. The rioters and looters will always cancel out the statement the citizens are trying to make.

And in a few weeks/months or so when it dies down (or the next prejudiced killing occurs), everybody will be asking why their message never got across, and the cycle will repeat. I'm not going to sit here and pretend I know what it's like to be profiled, or that the system is set up to fail my people. But it's a damn shame that it looks like we haven't learned anything from the civil rights demonstrations of the 60's. History just feels doomed to repeat itself in these situations.

Edit: Hope those of you close to the action stay safe, even though I don't think any progress will be made because of these riots I still hope nobody comes out of this any worse for the wear.


Most of these opportunistics aka criminals look like teenagers. I think that says alot. They could give a shit about Freddie Gray.

Most of these opportunistics aka criminals look like teenagers. I think that says alot. They could give a shit about Freddie Gray.

Don't get me started.

OTM - While far from a city wide riot, the violence was not particularly localized. It started in west Baltimore and moved done a corridor to downtown.

I'm in central Baltimore - about 3 miles from central Baltimore and 2 miles from where the problem started.

Most of these opportunistics aka criminals look like teenagers. I think that says alot. They could give a shit about Freddie Gray.

I'm wondering if they're going to try to run amok again today or if they're going to be put off by the Guard being there.

I'm also wondering if I'm going to be out of an entire week of pay due to these kids blowing off steam since I work dead center in West Baltimore.

:Smoker:

https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2015/04/27/scores-of-youths-hurling-bricks-and-rocks-at-police-on-auchentoroly-terrace/

https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2015/04/27/inside-city-hall-while-her-staff-parses-a-remark-the-mayor-stays-mum-on-a-sad-and-violent-day/

https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2015/04/28/city-says-144-vehicles-15-structures-torched-in-riots/

dang, my lady just said that some stores a few blocks from us are boarding themselves up bc they were in fact looted last night. Caroline liquor being one of them. I like caroline liquor, one of the few places that sell on sunday, open at 6 am until 2 am. they sell good craft beer to - big selection of laguinitas, etc. nice husband and wife own it and work the cash register. hope they got out before the looters got in.

i dont know why this hasnt been reported. i cant find anything on line about it. i would think looting in fells point would be big news.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDpSv91XIAEXPmY.jpg:large

^^ i did find some confirmation. this doesnt look like caroline but one of the many other hispanic liqour stores.

dang, my lady just said that some stores a few blocks from us are boarding themselves up bc they were in fact looted last night. Caroline liquor being one of them. I like caroline liquor, one of the few places that sell on sunday, open at 6 am until 2 am. they sell good craft beer to - big selection of laguinitas, etc. nice husband and wife own it and work the cash register. hope they got out before the looters got in.

i dont know why this hasnt been reported. i cant find anything on line about it. i would think looting in fells point would be big news.

I heard about looting in Fells Point but no one substantiated it.