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Balto. police commissioner fired

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This rose from the 2015 Freddie Gray riots.

Baltimore Mayor Rawlings-Blake fires Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts

I don’t like this. But I am best to “accept the things I cannot change.”

I have supported both Commissioner Batts and the mayor in everything they’ve done so far. An possible exception: in hindsight, it may have been unwise to shut down the subway Monday afternoon, April 26, as this rendered high school students at Mondawmin Mall unable to leave the area.

I have not studied the various calls for Batts’ resignation, but note that they come from many different directions. That doesn’t, in itself, give any of them merit.

The F.O.P. does not currently appear to me to be a friend of the people.

Originally posted 2015-07-09.

A third phase has begun.

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Saturday  2015-05-02

A third phase has begun, with yesterday’s filing of charges against the six officers involved in Freddie Gray’s arrest; but perhaps more importantly, with the press conference given by the Gray family’s attorney, Billy Murphy, that afternoon.  I will attempt to link here to, or embed, a complete video of that press conference; or, alternatively, copy the complete transcript here. Continue reading A third phase has begun. →

The riots in Baltimore

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As of Wednesday 04/29/15, I am beginning a new post (compare last Monday’s), as events prior to Monday afternoon 04/27/15 could be called “demonstrations,” but beginning that afternoon can instead be called “riots,” and I don’t want the two terms confused. Continue reading The riots in Baltimore →

God will wipe away every tear

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Isaiah 25:

6On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear. 7And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations; he will swallow up death forever. 8Then the LORD GOD will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken.

Continue reading God will wipe away every tear →

Celebrities, go home!

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(Originally posted 2015-04-29, in the midst of the Freddie Gray riots.)

… if you’ve never lived here, if you’ve never worked here …

Now that Baltimore is the center of national media attention, an endless string of celebrities and celebrity-wannabes can’t wait to come here and get their share of the limelight …

… at our expense.

Continue reading Celebrities, go home! →

The Travelers

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Violent funeral of career criminal killed by homeowner ‘cost £15,000 of taxpayers’ cash’

Henry Vincent was a burglar.  An elderly man whose house he broke into, killed him.  The funeral is somehow estimated to have cost £100,000.

The funeral procession became an “uprising.”  The police were ready.  They had had intelligence about it.  This was planned.

Vincent was a Traveler.  More about them shortly.  If you Google “Henry Vincent traveler,” you’ll come up with a lot about him.  He and accomplices were predatory.

I suspect the film At Close Range deals with Travelers.  It proves to be a true story, and very sad and grim. Continue reading The Travelers →