In Baltimore, in anticipation of rioting, the police prepared for the inevitable. They were ready for violence, they were ready for mob control, and they were well aware of the elements of radicalism that would attempt to fan the flames of hate. What the Baltimore PD was not ready for was the instructions by the mayor that they would not suit up in riot gear, that they would not use non-lethal measures to defend themselves, and that they were to allow looting and burning without intervening! As a result millions of dollars of property damage resulted, several officers were injured after being pelted with bottles and bricks from high school youths, and the rhetoric of racial conflict was once again alive on the streets.
The unmentionables
A week previously, a 61 year old white male was beaten by a gang of black youths horrifically, but the US news media had no interest in this story. The fact that a white man was brutalized unmercifully by a gang of black youths in a Baltimore suburb was simply not consistent with the leftist narrative. There are a number of facts that seem inconvenient to the Baltimore allegations of racial discrimination within the police department in the death supposedly at the hands of the police of one Freddie Gray.
Facts that do not fit the convenient leftist narrative of racial inequality within the Baltimore PD are that 3 of the hastily charged officers in the incident are black. Yet, facts never do seem to fit into protests or the violent reactions that are provoked by them either. The fact that Gray had a self fashioned knife designed to work like a switch blade has not been mentioned by the mainstream media either. The fact that Freddie Gray had a rap sheet that would choke an attack dog was conveniently passed over as well.
Gray, a repeat offender and known drug dealer reported to have suffered a severed spine had just had a cervical procedure done in days prior to his arrest. The fact that a prisoner in the van at the time Freddie was picked up said that he heard Gray banging his head against the inside of the van as he was being driven was amazingly mentioned offhandedly by some media sources.
It’s not for lack of money
The fact that Baltimore public schools have a large proportional influx of federal money per capita when it comes to
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