It's really not all the police and it's not just the black citizens of Baltimore behind the recent riots. No, David Simon, the writer of the gritty television crime drama The Wire set in Baltimore, and a local reporter and expert on the city, lays the blame squarely at the feet of Martin O'Malley, the ex-mayor.
In case you don't recognize O'Malley's name, he is now running for President as a a Democratic progressive to the left of Hillary. When he was mayor of Baltimore he ordered police sweeps without any probable cause of black residents of Baltimore to pad his resume. The way the game worked he would have mass police sweeps, then release all the non-perps if they signed a release saying they wouldn't sue the city for false arrest and the like. O'Malley would then tout the arrests to show how tough he was on crime and how he was getting a handle on crime. Unfortunately for Baltimore, though, O'Malley's game caused a massive cynicism and distrust of the police and the whole political system so that when Freddie Gray came along a few week ago, the fumes were simply waiting for a match to set them of. Boom. It happened.
I hope that one day the black community will wake up and realize that the Left simply want to keep them on the plantation as a reliable block vote. The average Joe/Joella Progessive-in-the street probably really does want to help the black community which is disintegrating further daily in front of our eyes, but progressive politicians are using them big time for their own purposes. Oh sure, they'll ply them with goodies to keep them pacified but from the virulent reaction when any high profile black ever dares to question the wisdom of their Progressive Masters (white or black BTW) and even remotely threatens to leave the plantation, their true colors come out and it's not pretty.
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