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I’m beyond sick of these riots going on in Baltimore! Everyone here is freaked out and there are rumor after rumor of protests that has caused schools and businesses to shut down. I spent my last night in at work watching the smoke rise from the city from the three alarm fire that all these punks set. I have a friend currently admitted at Hopkins and her family and friends have not been able to visit her because it was too dangerous to drive through the city and the hospital was on lockdown. Thank god in didn’t have to go into the city with the medic but they are calling for another major protest this weekend and of course I’m working :(. I was supposed to do a fundraiser march for the SPCA but that was postponed and I had a therapy visit with pets on wheels for today and that was canceled. What good is all of this doing? Burning down your own neighborhood and beating up and robing people?! I spent yesterday picking up water and portable snacks to donate to the city police and fire who have to work in this. Just horrible! /endrant
I hear ya! My sister works in B-more and their company had to get everyone out on Monday night out the back way, this was when the CVS was being trashed & the two MTA police vehicles were burning.
Luckily my Hubby and I were back home by then. Earlier in the afternoon, he had a follow up appointment for his ribs at UofMD Hosp.
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And this gave me hope.
There are legitimate questions that need to be answered. But HOW does it help to destroy the businesses that service your own community? I just saw on FOX a woman being held back behind a police line as she tried to get to her business that was going up in flames. What did that poor woman do to deserve the destruction of her livelihood.
I love the mommy who went and got her 16 year son and made him go home. We need more mom like that.
A few million more moms like her, and we wouldn’t be having all these problems.
My sister lives right outside Ferguson, and said that local reporters were interviewing protestors/riotors & found that many were from outside (out of state & a few out of country) rather than locals. This almost seems it might be coordinated by groups & agitators trying to create chaos in urban areas.
Peaceful protest occurs because people feel like enacting their rights as citizens will bring change; there is hope for victory. Rioting is a symptom of despair and anger at the system at large, taken out on the community because targeting the real sources of perceived inequality is impossible for one reason or another. It’s kind of like… a political tantrum; people get to a breaking point. I am in no way advocating rioting or violence against the community and/or police, by the way, just pointing out that the reasons these two things happen are entirely different.
Some of the articles I’ve been reading have suggested that if things had been handled better in the beginning, things might not have happened this way, based on interviews with teachers and average people in the area at the time. Detaining a bunch of scared kids from going home, giving them nothing to do, and surrounding them with cops decked out in riot gear… I’d be scared and mad, too, and I’m a five nothing white girl from the suburbs. :/
All that said, I really feel for the people of Baltimore. Good people, who shouldn’t have been made to suffer, are going to have been hurt physically and financially from this. Sometimes I read the news and I feel a bit scared to be coming back home soon, because it feels like my country is a pot of boiling hot water, and you just wonder where the next bit of violence is going to break out at as the economic and political turmoil continues. I have a friend whose company tried to bribe her and fellow workers to go to Baltimore to do repair work to a damaged store, already, and it seems like the uprest is *still happening.* For those of you in the area, please do whatever you can to keep you and your loved ones safe. I’ll be praying for your well-being from Japan.
I wouldn’t have known about the riots if you hadn’t mentioned them here. I was reading about them and was surprised and saddened by the whole issue but I do not think that violent outbursts from people and destruction of property is going to help things there. I can understand people’s frustrations and hurt over someone dying in police custody and that the cops in that case did something wrong, but that does not give an excuse to the protesters to create riots and make things worse. I have never experienced anything like that here luckily but things definitely need to change in Baltimore and cities like that to prevent these things from happening again! I would be pretty upset and scared if I lived there and had to deal with that!
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I first heard about the riots when I was watching my baseball show, Baseball Tonight, and it told about how all the attendees at the Baltimore Orioles game that evening (a few days ago) weren’t allowed to leave for a while.
The game the next day was postponed, and they played Wednesday’s game but forbade fans to attend. First MLB game played to an EMPTY stadium! Pretty crazy!
Of course, some fools disregarded the whole point (to keep people home and safe) and could be seen peeking in through some fences.
I found the whole empty-stadium thing pretty fascinating. They still gotta get those games in for the season’s stats and everything. I’m sure the game was still televised.I mean, I know baseball is the least important thing about this, but… thought it was interesting enough to mention.
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I first heard about the riots when I was watching my baseball show, Baseball Tonight, and it told about how all the attendees at the Baltimore Orioles game that evening (a few days ago) weren’t allowed to leave for a while.
The game the next day was postponed, and they played Wednesday’s game but forbade fans to attend. First MLB game played to an EMPTY stadium! Pretty crazy!
Of course, some fools disregarded the whole point (to keep people home and safe) and could be seen peeking in through some fences.
I found the whole empty-stadium thing pretty fascinating. They still gotta get those games in for the season’s stats and everything. I’m sure the game was still televised.I mean, I know baseball is the least important thing about this, but… thought it was interesting enough to mention.
I think it is too. 🙂 I didn’t listen to the whole radio broadcast of the empty stadium game but I heard excerpts – very strange!
There are definite questions about should Freddy Gray have been arrested in the first place, more information is needed. At minimum, there seems to be negligence in that Mr Gray was not properly buckled into the van. There is a question of why he wasn’t taken straight to the police station and why the additional stops were made – again more information is needed. HOWEVER, the state’s attorney general has a clear conflict of interest when the Gray family’s lawyer actually contributed to her election campaign. Her blatantly political statements also make it clear she must recuse herself from the prosecution. Did the actions by some of the six officers contribute to Mr Gray’s death – that appears very likely, but the charges appear to be grossly disproportionate. This appears to be much more a case for the civil court, not the criminal court. But regardless of all of that – NO excuse for the wanton destruction, rioting and looting.
Agree. It seems the charges filed were premature & political instead of thorough. The Gray family’s lawyer funded Mosby’s campaign, which was run on police accountability. I think all of us want to see police held accountable when there’s a rogue bad officer that does something wrong, but these charges seem ridiculous and I suspect that when it goes to jury trial, the police will be acquitted and then the riots will begin all over again (as they did with Trayvon Martin case & Ferguson case).
There are legitimate issues with local police departments becoming “authoritarian” since 9-11, but they’re not related to race and effect us all. Through DHS grants, military equipment used in war were sent to local police departments. They must be planning on another revolution, imo
I love the mommy who went and got her 16 year son and made him go home. We need more mom like that.
She was one smart mama
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