Baltimore Unrest

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#228
McDad said:
Careful, LV. You're treading dangerously close to values, personal responsibility, and social decay which is a death sentence in politics.
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i have been there and talked with the community and some of the people trying to work on the problem. so I can comment a little more on Baltimore than i could anywhere else. when we walked the city the phrase "Oh thank God, a drug dealer." was issued a few times. that place is a ghost town. if you want to know how messed it up is one of the most shocking things were the teddy bears. for a time the citizens would mark where children were killed with bears nailed to the buildings. there were streets with bears on every single building and street sign/post.

fun fact: those abandoned buildings in Baltimore: you can actually buy some of them for a dollar.
 
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LouderVol said:
i have been there and talked with the community and some of the people trying to work on the problem. so I can comment a little more on Baltimore than i could anywhere else. when we walked the city the phrase "Oh thank God, a drug dealer." was issued a few times. that place is a ghost town. if you want to know how messed it up is one of the most shocking things were the teddy bears. for a time the citizens would mark where children were killed with bears nailed to the buildings. there were streets with bears on every single building and street sign/post.

fun fact: those abandoned buildings in Baltimore: you can actually buy some of them for a dollar.
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So they post teddy bears when someone dies from one of their own but burn down the city when one of the criminals dies at the hands of a cop?
 
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#230
Watching this is ****ing pathetic.

We're ****ing Americans, get your **** together and do things peacefully.
 
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volfanjustin said:
Cowards, thugs and animals. The police should leave and tell them if they want to burn down their own community, have at it.
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they kinda have, Baltimore has had a pretty regular apathy that as long as it doesn't bother the nicer areas its ok. i was told when i was there that the cops wouldn't even respond to murders in certain neighborhoods. 1. it was too dangerous. 2. they would never catch the guy. 3. no one would cooperate 4. no one would press charges.

some of the fires from riots they had earlier have never been repaired. Baltimore riot of 1968 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

there is a heavy attitude of "if you work with the cops, you are one." and people fear for their lives when talking to the cops. not just worried about what the cop might do to screw them over but also what the community will do to them.
 
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Bigurnge said:
So they post teddy bears when someone dies from one of their own but burn down the city when one of the criminals dies at the hands of a cop?
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i wouldn't simplify it to that extent. basically this was the tipping point, and they can (legit) blame someone else this time. IMO. JMO. TIFWIW
 
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#237
Property owners need to protect their property/goods because the cops can't be everywhere.

Thug- meet paintball. This will sting for a while.
 
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#240
Local CVS Pharmacy currently getting the "Ferguson treatment."

Man would I hate to be one of those pharmacists. Drugs drugs drugs!
 
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