The Purge is coming! No. Actually, really it’s not (even though it sort of did). But this bullshit did a fair bit of work to fuck things up Monday afternoon. By noon this had already gotten more 16,000 views. The Purge was “scheduled” for 3:30pm. The first cop was injured at 3:45pm.
These messages also need to be heard by all the apologists for rioters as well. Especially those that live nowhere near Baltimore. I don’t know these guys (well, I’ve heard of Ray Lewis), but I find these unrehearsed personal messages quite powerful. Especially compared to pontificating buffoons who don’t live in Baltimore and use the city’s destruction to fit their…
This had become a popular video in Baltimore. And the interview with moms. You know, technically, in our-spanking-is-wrong society, mom committed the crime of physical child abuse. The law says lock her up and put her child in protective services to protect him from her. The law is not made by single mothers in Baltimore.
Here’s the citywide announcement (mp3 file) to police on the city curfew. Story in the Sun.
That could be one headline from yesterday. There was no Baltimore homicide between 23:45 hours on Sunday and 12:00 our today (Tuesday). I also just heard a call dispatched for drug dealing. It’s almost like things are getting back to normal. (Though they’re not normal yet.)
I still can’t get over the Mayor saying “We also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.” [Update: Though now I understand, thanks to a comment by Matt and others in a previous post, what I think she was trying to say: From the video, it appears she did indeed mean that the city inadvertently…
Well, that did not go well. When the fires hit the Eastern, I felt it got personal. I can’t believe nobody got killed. Hell, by that standard, it was a peaceful night in the city. In the academy, we got less than one (1) day of riot training. This are my notes from Tuesday, April 4, 2000, in their entirety:…
You sure did, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. I cannot believe that the mayor of Baltimore said this yesterday. Unbelievable. You think that may encourage people to loot and burn? The full context in case you were wondering (I was) is: I’ve made it very clear that I work with police and instructed them to do everything that they could to…
Now the Eastern is burning. @PeterMoskos https://twitter.com/PeterMoskos.
From Colin Campbell on the twittersphere: