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originally posted by: ProleUK
The rioters were seen on camera a few seconds later, further up the street looting what looked like a small privately owned foods store. There was a person in the flat above it opening their window to look at the scene below, hope they don't fire that too.
originally posted by: bbracken677
a reply to: Rocker2013
It's not that they dont have the resources...they dont have the will.
In the current environment what police officer is going to put himself in a position where he may have to use deadly force and face the onslought of media scrutiny by the talking heads?
This is so much bs I cannot even begin to express my feelings here.
There is a national discourse on police use of deadly force.
Why is there not a similar discourse about those who are criminals? Those who resist arrest? Those who run from the police?
Why is there not a single finger pointed at a segment of our society who INSIST on behaving in antisocial manner? Why is there no discourse regarding the segment of our society who have no problems with looting and destroying property? Why is there no discourse about a segment of our society who INSIST on responding to virtually every conflict with violence or the threat of violence?
Oh...sorry, that would not be PC. That would be truthful, but not PC.
If we cannot be honest with ourselves.....
originally posted by: SheopleNation
originally posted by: Rocker2013
They should have made that announcement on Saturday.
They knew they would need all policing resource for emergency deployment, and a sporting event is absolutely not a priority.
Anything non-essential requiring policing should have been canceled already - bad planning and terrible crisis management.
I think this today started from some high school students tweeting about rioting. Twitter seems to be fueling a lot of this just like the media.
They are throwing bottles at the Fire Engines. ~$heopleNation
originally posted by: Rotation
a reply to: Rocker2013
The people here on ATS are an intellectual collection of people and they can understand that when a mass group of people come together, there is no longer an individuality. It comes down to the behavior of the entire group, (example) if half of the group runs to the west, the other half will react to the sudden movement and run in the same direction as well.
Provocateurs use this known phenomenon as a snowball effect, and another example would be when USA used the University students in Venezuela to cause chaos and riots.
originally posted by: Rocker2013
Again, exactly the same as London.
We should be paying attention to NY, Chicago and LA tonight too. If this carries on mirroring the UK riots your country has a major problem.
originally posted by: Rocker2013
originally posted by: ProleUK
The rioters were seen on camera a few seconds later, further up the street looting what looked like a small privately owned foods store. There was a person in the flat above it opening their window to look at the scene below, hope they don't fire that too.
And that's exactly what happened in London too, they set fire to small businesses and the people who lived above them lost everything.
This is copying the UK riots almost identically. Clearly Baltimore PD and government (and probably hundreds of others) weren't paying attention to what happened here or how that would easily translate to their city.
They should have community leaders on TV already appealing for this to end, they should have the family telling them to stop, telling them this is shaming them and the memory of their loved one.
The Baltimore Mayor and Police are failing here.