Baltimore

[YankeeFan]

Melting down on live TV...

 

[Jake_Taylor]

My wife's cousin is a Baltimore City EMT, which is already a pretty damn scary job the other 364 days a year. Hopefully he and the rest of them are staying safe today.

 

[Songbird]

Melting down on live TV...

Well then, let's watch!

 

[Songbird]

Recorded live on my iPhone on 4/26/15 at 2:44 PM EDT, Recorded live from United States, Maryland, Baltimore on my iPhone on 4/26/15 at 2:44 PM EDT ThePeteS...

 

[YankeeFan]

CNN has shown one police car torn to shreds and another set on fire.

Can only imagine it will get worse after the sun goes down. I'm not sure how close the center of the protests are to Camden Yards, but given what happened the other night, I don't think I'd want to be at the game, which starts in less than two hours.

The Police gave the protestors "room" to destroy property on Saturday night. Tonight's violence was planned in plain sight on social media. Yet, somehow the Police weren't ready for it. I don't know if they didn't want to show too much "force", but they've let things get out of control, and it's a Monday before sun fall.

It's going to be a long night.

At least the media should be able to cover it tonight, as opposed to Saturday, when they were all celebrating themselves, and didn't even subject the WHCD to the split screen treatment.

 

[YankeeFan]

Whatever they do, I hope Baltimore doesn't break out armored vehicles, and police in military style gear.

THAT will encourage violence.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

#StaysafeWhiteSox

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

Baltimore could use some leadership right about now. I also have an idea on settling things down. Ask every "protester" who Freddie Gray is. The ones who don't know either go home or get arrested. That should leave about a dozen people.

 

[YankeeFan]

No sign of police as businesses are being destroyed/looted on live tv.

 

[DanOregon]

Wolf Blitzer needs to retire. He's terrible. Though I'm guessing he must own that CVS given how much he's bemoaning what is happening there. He's doing a pretty good Les Nessman Turkey Drop impression. The stuff they are showing on CNN is occurring NW of downtown. I'm surprised CNN hasn't thrown up a map. Shouldn't be too tough to show where the looting is happening. And it's mostly juveniles doing this.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

No sign of police as businesses are being destroyed/looted on live tv.

No-win situation. Either the cops engage and get accused of being the bad guys, or they stay away, let the "protesters" do their thing and then get blamed for not protecting the neighborhoods.

 

[YankeeFan]

And it's mostly juveniles doing this.

So?

I'm not even sure this is true at this point, but how is it a mitigating factor?

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

So?

I'm not even sure this is true at this point, but how is it a mitigating factor?

Looting convenience stores for the toys probably.

 

[YankeeFan]

The police are in a no win situation, but there's a complete vacuum of leadership in Baltimore right now.

The Mayor is MIA. The police commissioner is MIA.

The Baltimore Police twitter feed was begging parents to go bring their looting children home.

The police, at the direction of the Mayor, retreated on Saturday night. That set the tone.

Baltimore is ****ed tonight.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I love looting, mainly because the looters are too dumb to realize that business liability insurance pays for any losses or damages. Then the insurance company pays out a big check and the business owner....moves to another location and builds again, because the premium is too high to rebuild the old place. Or they take the money, run and don't rebuild. So now your community has one less pizza place, one less 7-11, and a few less jobs.

Well done, idiots.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

I love looting, mainly because the looters are too dumb to realize that business liability insurance pays for any losses or damages. Then the insurance company pays out a big check and the business owner....moves to another location and builds again, because the premium is too high to rebuild the old place. Or they take the money, run and don't rebuild. So now your community has one less pizza place, one less 7-11, and a few less jobs.

Well done, idiots.

Yep. Hey, we'll show you by destroying our own neighborhood and making it even worse!

 

[Jake_Taylor]

I can't believe they haven't postponed the O's game yet. Instead they are letting fans in one particular gate while police in riot gear guard Camden Yards.

The commissioner is in town, why isn't he telling them to call it off?

 

[YankeeFan]

Don't expect to hear from the President tonight:

 

[Amy]

Wait - are they letting traffic through this area like nothing's going on?

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Now they have closes all the gated at Camden Yards, but not before 600 fans went in.