Baltimore burns. Why?

[Chef Ramsay]

The Other Racial Divide
Were Asian-American businesses targeted in the Baltimore riots?

When guests at a North Korea Freedom Week dinner in Northern Virginia learned the Korean-American pastor at our table led a Maryland church, they immediately asked about the situation in Baltimore. It was May 1, and National Guard troops had been deployed to the city three days earlier to help quell the unrest sparked by the death of a man in police custody. The pastor let out a deep sigh before responding. A few members of his congregation had lost everything. After working diligently for years building small businesses in a new country, they watched their efforts literally go up in flames as looters trashed their shops and carted off their merchandise.

The crisis reminded many in America’s growing community of two million Korean immigrants and their descend-ants of another city’s devastation two decades earlier. Baltimore’s riots began two days before the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, in which Koreatown, the heart of the Korean diaspora in America, was subjected to pogrom-like attacks by irate mobs. Though Asian Americans had nothing to do with either Rodney King’s or Freddie Gray’s injuries, they appear to have been the targets of some of the animosity unleashed by rioters.

More...http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/other-racial-divide_946670.html

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[Chef Ramsay]

Baltimore's mayor: Spike in crime 'disheartening'

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called the city's recent spike in violence “disheartening” Thursday as police work to address a dramatic increase in homicides and nonfatal shootings.

“It’s extremely frustrating,” the mayor told reporters at a news conference. “It is disheartening, but I am still resolved to continue to reduce violent crime in our city.”

Rawlings-Blake said the city’s faced spikes in crimes in the past and police have been able to successfully reverse them. She said she’s “confident” police will do so again.

The city has experienced 100 homicides this year, compared with 71 at this time last year, the police department said. It's the fastest the city has reached 100 homicides since 2007. Last year, the city reached the mark on July 4. Nonfatal shootings are up more than 70 percent with at least 19 people shot on Tuesday and Wednesday.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/blog/bal-mayor-spike-in-crime-disheartening-20150521-story.html

[TheButterZone]

What percentage of those homicides were justified in self-defense, committed by those only "guilty" of the totalitarian-defined "crime" of possessing a self-defense tool?

[Chef Ramsay]

Looks like these Baltimore folks will have to defend themselves from the parasites they live around cause it looks like the police are throwing the towel.

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West Baltimore residents worry they've been abandoned by the officers they once accused of harassing them, leaving some neighborhoods like the Wild West without a lawman around. "Before it was over-policing. Now there's no police," said Donnail "Dreads" Lee, 34, who lives in the Gilmor Homes, the public housing complex where Gray, 25, was chased down. "People feel as though they can do things and get away with it. I see people walking with guns almost every single day, because they know the police aren't pulling them up like they used to."

Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said his officers "are not holding back," despite encountering dangerous hostility in the Western District. "Our officers tell me that when officers pull up, they have 30 to 50 people surrounding them at any time," Batts said.

http://www.mail.com/news/us/3580888-baltimore-bloodier-arrests-drop-post-freddie-gray.html#.23140-stage-hero1-2

[Chef Ramsay]

Baltimore Gets Bloodier As Arrests Drop Post-Freddie Gray

BALTIMORE (AP) — A 31-year-old woman and a young boy were shot in the head Thursday, becoming Baltimore’s 37th and 38th homicide victims so far this month, the city’s deadliest in 15 years.

The most recent killings claimed the lives of Jennifer Jeffrey and her seven-year-old son, Kester Anthony Browne. They were identified by Jeffrey’s sister, Danielle Wilder.

Jeffrey and her son were found dead early Thursday, each from gunshot wounds to the head.
As family members cried and held each other on the quiet, leafy block in Southwest Baltimore where they lived, Wilder said she felt as if “my heart has been ripped out.”

Wilder said a neighbor called their other sister early Thursday, concerned that she hadn’t hear any noise coming from Jeffrey’s house: no footsteps, Wilder said, no voices, and no gunshots. But when her brother let himself into the house to check on the mother and son, he discovered their bodies.

More...http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/05/28/baltimore-residents-fearful-amid-rash-of-homicides/

[Chef Ramsay]

Baltimore residents fearful amid rash of homicides

BALTIMORE (AP) — Antoinette Perrine has barricaded her front door since her brother was killed three weeks ago on a basketball court near her home in the Harlem Park neighborhood of West Baltimore. She already has iron bars outside her windows and added metal slabs on the inside to deflect the gunfire.

"I'm afraid to go outside," said Perrine, 47. "It's so bad, people are afraid to let their kids outside. People wake up with shots through their windows. Police used to sit on every corner, on the top of the block. These days? They're nowhere."

Perrine's brother is one of 36 people killed in Baltimore so far this month, already the highest homicide count for May since 1999. But while homicides are spiking, arrests have plunged more than 50 percent compared to last year.

The drop in arrests followed the death of Freddie Gray from injuries he suffered in police custody. Gray's death sparked protests against the police and some rioting, and led to the indictment of six officers.

More...http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150528/us--homicide_spike-baltimore-984491eb03.html

[TheButterZone]

"Arm yourself because no one else here will save you."

[Chef Ramsay]

Mother, 7-Year-Old Son Killed In Baltimore Shooting

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Shock and sadness in a Southwest Baltimore community after a double murder. One of the victims — just seven-years-old.

Derek Valcourt has more on the victims and where the investigation stands right now.

Family members look on in horror as the bodies of the mother and her young son are pulled from their home at 103 Upmanor Road in the Uplands neighborhood of Southwest Baltimore.

Jennifer Jeffrey Browne, 31, and her seven-year-old son Kester “Tony” Browne were found dead just after 8 a.m. Thursday — both shot in the head.
Neighbors — appalled.

“Who can do this? What kind of person is he?” asked Donald Barber.

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/05/28/8-year-old-another-woman-killed-in-baltimore-shooting/

[Chef Ramsay]

Looted Drugs Fueling Deadly Turf Wars in Baltimore

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore’s top cop confirms what WJZ has been reporting – -almost 200,000 narcotics are on the streets of Baltimore, and police say they’re fueling deadly turf wars.

Police believe stolen prescription drugs are driving the violence sweeping the city.
“There’s enough narcotics on the streets of Baltimore to keep it intoxicated for a year,” Commissioner Batts said.

More than 175,000 units or doses of drugs were looted from 27 pharmacies and two methadone clinics during the April 27 riots. Almost half of those businesses haven’t even finished assessing what was stolen.

More...http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/06/03/batts-enough-stolen-drugs-on-the-streets-to-keep-baltimore-high-for-a-year/

Crazy, it didn't even dawn on me that pre-x drugs were to blame for all the violence after the hoodlums ransacked these pharmacy stores until this story said the obvious. Can you imagine all the percecet, oxy and whatever else these lowlifes got ahold of? Free product instead of messing w/ the same old street stuff and look what happens!

[Okurkabinladin]

"Arm yourself because no one else here will save you."

No. Frankly, president or whoever is in charge of your country should step in, form commitee, that would once and for all investigate LEOs alleged "misuse of power" and then resolve the situation on the ground via national guard. You just cant let this go or be apathetic, this is your fucking country, not Somalia or Iraq.

[TheButterZone]

"Arm yourself because no one else here will save you."

No. Frankly, president or whoever is in charge of your country should step in, form commitee, that would once and for all investigate LEOs alleged "misuse of power" and then resolve the situation on the ground via national guard. You just cant let this go or be apathetic, this is your fucking country, not Somalia or Iraq.

They are supposedly doing that through DOJ, but stopping short of national guard-enforced martial law. Jim Crow laws which only disarm law-abiding blacks (and all other races that can't afford bribes) for the slaughter need to be civilly disobeyed.