Baltimore riots

!@#$%! · 04.27.2015, 11:38 PM

the baltimore sun has turned off their paywall

http://www.baltimoresun.com

SuchFriendsAreDangerous · 04.28.2015, 12:15 AM

What did people expect? Baltimore don't take no shit from chump cops.

SuchFriendsAreDangerous · 04.28.2015, 12:16 AM

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o_fqDy5QJ8E

Also i love how the Orioles were stupid enough not to cancel Saturday game

demonrail666 · 04.28.2015, 04:12 AM

Cue a 1000 interviews with David Simon.

evollove · 04.28.2015, 06:22 AM

^ Ha! But, you know, probably more substantive than browsing Twitter.

The riot and Supreme Court same-sex arguments on the same day? Editors, radio talk show hosts and cable news producers must have successfully performed some weird ritualistic dance to the gods for this.

!@#$%! · 04.28.2015, 08:39 AM

you guys-- too meta

Bytor Peltor · 04.28.2015, 02:04 PM

I have two different friends living in the area. They've lived their less than five years, but each has neighbors who are life long residents. According to the neighbors, this little dust up is a long way from comparing to the riots of 68.

SuchFriendsAreDangerous · 04.28.2015, 02:34 PM

Exactly. The media wants to make this or what happened in Ferguson scarier than what it really is. They also want to make the communities look "violent" and "inhuman" so that majority of people support the police and even begin to believe that the people there somehow deserve to get brutalized and killed by law enforcement. Fuck that

Bytor Peltor · 04.28.2015, 02:43 PM

According to my friends who live in the area, it sounds scary. Canceling school and baseball games is a necessary precaution until civil obedience can be restored. Mobs can be difficult to control and often turn in an instant.

YES - the media LOVES ratings no matter the plight, but there is a genuine reason for concern!

greenlight · 04.28.2015, 03:55 PM

I have noticed police got militarized big time in U.S. and cops became more and more "psychopatic" these days. why?
I am just afraid that all those riots (happening lately) would go too far and it would be good pre-text for marshall law one day. and that is when it would be real shit for everyone.
and why the mayor openly admits protecting and aiding riots in Baltimore btw.?
I hope it wont get any worse on both sides. too much hidden tension between cops vs society last year or so across the states.
also racism issues, gay issues, religion issues. just dividing and dividing people. what i the bigger picture behind it all?

The Soup Nazi · 04.28.2015, 04:29 PM

HUGE episode of The Wire last night! Kinda odd that it aired on CNN instead of HBO, though...

SuchFriendsAreDangerous · 04.28.2015, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by greenlight

I have noticed police got militarized big time in U.S. and cops became more and more "psychopatic" these days. why?

No, the media is just paying more attention to what has always been there. Sadly it used to be even worse.

Keeping It Gimple · 04.28.2015, 06:06 PM

I know this is a bad situation but its kinda hilarious to see videos of white liberals being all "HEY GUYS STOP THROWING THINGS THIS ISN'T ACCOMPLISHING ANYTHING NOW CALM DOWN AND LETS GET DOWN TO SOME HARDCORE NON VIOLENCE AND DEMOCRATIC DISCOURSE" but before the condescension can even begin some brotha sets a car on fire and loots a store.

SuchFriendsAreDangerous · 04.28.2015, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Keeping It Gimple

" but before the condescension can even begin some brotha sets a car on fire and loots a store.

Heard dat

SuchFriendsAreDangerous · 04.28.2015, 07:23 PM

you need both methods to effect change. The sit ins and marches were great and all in the 60s but what really pushed the issue? Burning down 100 major cities in 1968

Drjohnrock · 04.28.2015, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

you need both methods to effect change. The sit ins and marches were great and all in the 60s but what really pushed the issue? Burning down 100 major cities in 1968

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, The Voting Rights Act of 1965, Loving v. Virginia, Brown v. Board of Education--the list goes on and on. None of these were accomplished by empty-headed acts of destroying your own neighborhoods. The '68 riots accomplished nothing. Places like Detriot have never recovered and likely never will. But you're free to indulge in your fantasies.

SuchFriendsAreDangerous · 04.28.2015, 08:47 PM

The 68 Uprisings accomplished nothing did they? Remember all those laws you mentioned were merely paperwork until AFTER the uprisings. Remember that during Reconstruction in the 1860s there were plenty of rosy laws passed too, doomed only to exist on paper under the duress of the KKK and Jim Crow. Well, the people finally fought back and they're fighting now. You and !@#$%! go ahead and vote, and folks on the street will continue to do what we do, and more or less we're meeting each other half way. I don't live in fantasy, the streets burning speak for reality themselves.

SuchFriendsAreDangerous · 04.28.2015, 08:56 PM

Besides, rioting is an American tradition

!@#$%! · 04.28.2015, 11:48 PM

http://wapo.st/1DIFPrO

SuchFriendsAreDangerous · 04.29.2015, 12:12 AM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

http://wapo.st/1DIFPrO

That was a surprisingly good read, especially the commentary about how people like to vicariously get their hands dirty associating with criminality through TV and social media without having to actually have face to face interactions with the humans involved in crime. Me? I grew up with hood people, getting into all kinds of trouble, making the worst decisions. I just relate to the bottom and ive always found the romanticization of gangs and drugs through media pathetic. Now the media is doing opposite, dehumanizing Baltimore or Ferguson as "thugs" as if they didn't have real human lives and real human motivations for uprising or for crime.

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SuchFriendsAreDangerous invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: fucking Los Angeles Posts: 14,801	http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o_fqDy5QJ8E Also i love how the Orioles were stupid enough not to cancel Saturday game __________________ Today Rap music is the Lakers
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evollove invito al cielo Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 2,879	^ Ha! But, you know, probably more substantive than browsing Twitter. The riot and Supreme Court same-sex arguments on the same day? Editors, radio talk show hosts and cable news producers must have successfully performed some weird ritualistic dance to the gods for this.
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04.28.2015, 08:39 AM	#6
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,564	you guys-- too meta
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04.28.2015, 02:04 PM	#7
Bytor Peltor Banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Arlen, Texas Posts: 3,784	I have two different friends living in the area. They've lived their less than five years, but each has neighbors who are life long residents. According to the neighbors, this little dust up is a long way from comparing to the riots of 68.
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04.28.2015, 02:34 PM	#8
SuchFriendsAreDangerous invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: fucking Los Angeles Posts: 14,801	Exactly. The media wants to make this or what happened in Ferguson scarier than what it really is. They also want to make the communities look "violent" and "inhuman" so that majority of people support the police and even begin to believe that the people there somehow deserve to get brutalized and killed by law enforcement. Fuck that __________________ Today Rap music is the Lakers
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04.28.2015, 02:43 PM	#9
Bytor Peltor Banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Arlen, Texas Posts: 3,784	According to my friends who live in the area, it sounds scary. Canceling school and baseball games is a necessary precaution until civil obedience can be restored. Mobs can be difficult to control and often turn in an instant. YES - the media LOVES ratings no matter the plight, but there is a genuine reason for concern!
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04.28.2015, 03:55 PM	#10
greenlight invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,131	I have noticed police got militarized big time in U.S. and cops became more and more "psychopatic" these days. why? I am just afraid that all those riots (happening lately) would go too far and it would be good pre-text for marshall law one day. and that is when it would be real shit for everyone. and why the mayor openly admits protecting and aiding riots in Baltimore btw.? I hope it wont get any worse on both sides. too much hidden tension between cops vs society last year or so across the states. also racism issues, gay issues, religion issues. just dividing and dividing people. what i the bigger picture behind it all? __________________
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04.28.2015, 06:06 PM	#13
Keeping It Gimple children of satan Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 318	I know this is a bad situation but its kinda hilarious to see videos of white liberals being all "HEY GUYS STOP THROWING THINGS THIS ISN'T ACCOMPLISHING ANYTHING NOW CALM DOWN AND LETS GET DOWN TO SOME HARDCORE NON VIOLENCE AND DEMOCRATIC DISCOURSE" but before the condescension can even begin some brotha sets a car on fire and loots a store. __________________ kl;
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04.28.2015, 07:23 PM	#15
SuchFriendsAreDangerous invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: fucking Los Angeles Posts: 14,801	you need both methods to effect change. The sit ins and marches were great and all in the 60s but what really pushed the issue? Burning down 100 major cities in 1968 __________________ Today Rap music is the Lakers
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04.28.2015, 08:47 PM	#17
SuchFriendsAreDangerous invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: fucking Los Angeles Posts: 14,801	The 68 Uprisings accomplished nothing did they? Remember all those laws you mentioned were merely paperwork until AFTER the uprisings. Remember that during Reconstruction in the 1860s there were plenty of rosy laws passed too, doomed only to exist on paper under the duress of the KKK and Jim Crow. Well, the people finally fought back and they're fighting now. You and !@#$%! go ahead and vote, and folks on the street will continue to do what we do, and more or less we're meeting each other half way. I don't live in fantasy, the streets burning speak for reality themselves. __________________ Today Rap music is the Lakers
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SuchFriendsAreDangerous invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: fucking Los Angeles Posts: 14,801	Besides, rioting is an American tradition __________________ Today Rap music is the Lakers
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