The truth

Hey @RepCummings do you want to call this man out as a Racist? Asking for the residents of Baltimore.pic.twitter.com/2fjIoqXI8d

— Buffalo Roamer (@NoPlaceLikeRoam) August 12, 2019

He's ready when you are, Baltimore!

....even to new heights of success and glory, but not with King Elijah and that crew. When the leaders of Baltimore want to see the City rise again, I am in a very beautiful oval shaped office waiting for your call!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2019

Linguistic propaganda from the Left

Go get him, Mr. President!

Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA......

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2019

Life in the hood

Homocides. What is the first thing you think of when you hear that word? Baltimore and Chicago? Blacks? Baltimore has surpassed Chicago as the city with the highest homocide rate. There is a website called HeyJackass that keeps track of Chicago homocides. Did you know that there is a shooting every 2:51 minutes in Chicago? A homocide every 16:45 minutes? 79.1% of victims (311 people) are Black. 17.0% (67 people) are Hispanic. In 290 of those cases, there has been no suspect charged! 2397 persons have been shot so far in 2015 in Chicago. 359 of those have been killed; the rest wounded.

Police afraid to make mistakes in Baltimore

Juliet Linderman writes at My Way,

Now West Baltimore residents worry they've been abandoned by the officers they once accused of harassing them. In recent weeks, some neighborhoods have become like the Wild West without a lawman around, residents said.

"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 arrested.

"I haven't seen the police since the riots," Lee said. "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 last week his officers "are not holding back" from policing tough neighborhoods, but they are 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.

At a City Council meeting Wednesday, Batts said officers have expressed concern they could be arrested for making mistakes.

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A death sentence for Baltimore

With regard to the false imprisonment charges brought against six Baltimore policemen, Andrew McCarthy writes at National Review,

The law allows police to be wrong without being criminally culpable. If this were not the case, police would not make arrests, even if crimes were committed before their eyes, for fear that they could be prosecuted, sued, or fired if a prosecutor or judge second-guessed their judgment.

The average person who runs away from police has done something wrong; it is not unreasonable for a cop in a crime-ridden area to conclude that he is probably dealing with the average person, not the unusual type who runs for no apparent reason. And the whole point of the investigative stop is that police can ask a few questions and let the detainee go on his way if there is no good reason to detain him further.

Police have the right to be wrong, as long as they are wrong in a reasonable way. That is the case not only when they detain someone but when they decide they have grounds to make an arrest. If a police officer finds on a suspect what he believes in good faith is an illegally possessed knife, he can arrest the suspect. If it turns out that the knife is actually legal, the remedy is to vacate the arrest — not to prosecute the cop for unlawful imprisonment. It’s a mistake, not a crime.

If police are now to conclude that they cannot, without fear of being prosecuted, take routine investigative steps based on reasonable suspicion, communities cannot be protected. There can be no security and no commerce. Innocent people will be preyed upon and killed.

The unlawful-imprisonment charges filed by prosecutor Marilyn Mosby are not even social justice, much less justice. They are a death sentence for Baltimore.

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