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(93,834 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)at least three times now.
I feel for her. She's got a helluva bad situation on her hands thanks to some other thugs - the cops.
daredtowork
(3,732 posts)is going to establish innate prejudice and corruption of the city establishment, and thus not going to help her.
That was a serious PR crisis management consultant fail.
Unless, of course, the mayor is auditioning in code for some white supremacist gig...
Logical
(22,457 posts)She grew up in Baltimore and went to school there. She has been mayor for 5 years.
So you don't think she knows the city as well as you do?
cwydro
(51,308 posts)just used the word too.
daredtowork
(3,732 posts)she's using words that will inflame the situation. Perhaps deliberately.
brooklynite
(93,834 posts)brooklynite
(93,834 posts)Will deploy National Guard when available
brooklynite
(93,834 posts)B2G
(9,766 posts)peacebird
(14,195 posts)romanic
(2,841 posts)So yeah thugs is an apt descriptor. I would also use, "goons", "losers" and "lowlifes" as well.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)also called them cowards.
Even better.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)why candycoat it?
Right now she's got to get control of the city. I don't know why she's setting special curfew for tomorrow night instead of tonight
Vattel
(9,289 posts)Without much warning people might innocently violate it because they couldn't get home in time or just didn't hear about it. Also, if the police aren't set up to enforce it adequately tonight, violators might feel that they can ignore it.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)Mike Daniels
(5,842 posts)Destroying property and stopping safety personnel from putting out fires? What else would you call the perps of such acts?
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Can't wait to see how this goes for the rest of us nonthugs, though.
FarPoint
(12,207 posts)A veil of deception still looms!
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)FarPoint
(12,207 posts)Sounds to me it was a combination of events.. I sense initial injury of a cracked spine/ vertebrae occurred at the chase takedown. Then he got a "rough ride" in the van which extended and displaced the spinal cracks into fracture shards cutting the spine. Fractured larynx from an impact hit to the throat during a toss in the van...probably hitting the bench during a toss when brakes applied to van. Hitting the bench at the larynx area also could of extended the spinal cracks in vertebrae.
That's my sense of breakdown scenerio. Rachel gave no injury speculation but did give details of the transport phase.
realFedUp
(25,053 posts)Curfew tomorrow night? How about tonight?
brooklynite
(93,834 posts)Additionally, if the Police can't control the streets, they'd have to arrest hundreds of people still protesting, or look more ineffective than they do now.
realFedUp
(25,053 posts)Tomorrow will be calm.
brooklynite
(93,834 posts)romanic
(2,841 posts)Riots usually don't have a time limit. :x
brooklynite
(93,834 posts)They can leave work early, use public transportation before it shuts down, etc.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]
realFedUp
(25,053 posts)Election.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)that is the only reason she is in office..she is not handling this well
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)They always say "you get the government you deserve", and man does that shoe ever fit tight now!!
wordpix
(18,652 posts)get control of the city before this thing spreads even further and before someone gets shot. America is awash in guns and thugs have them.
hexola
(4,835 posts)She was terrible - calling people embroiled in this thugs?
Mayor Zimmerman?
phil89
(1,043 posts)and cutting fire hoses...what the hell else are they?
TheKentuckian
(24,934 posts)or have a lot of folks missed it being flung around?
wordpix
(18,652 posts)I worked for several yrs. in a similar neighborhood to this in Baltimore, i.e. low income. I understand that the "thugs" she refers to are products of this environment that features unemployment, dysfunctional home life, bad schools, poverty and crime/drugs/gangs/violence. All of that has to change and I say tax the rich at much higher rate and fund programs to help people in need. Meanwhile, unless/until that happens, criminals and thieves are about of every color.
They have now burned down a church that black people belong to This is not about color IMO.
TheKentuckian
(24,934 posts)The cost of using that particular word choice outweighs the benefit infinitely even if it is tiny because there is no benefit or necessity at all and I have no idea why anyone would bother to argue the point.
I'm not saying her use was racist but it was a tin eared word choice considering the racist use clearly in vogue.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)and people who would punch holes in a fire hose?
realFedUp
(25,053 posts)Depaysement
(1,835 posts)romanic
(2,841 posts)with George Zimmerman? Disgusting.
hexola
(4,835 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Oktober
(1,488 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)anti-female remark.
Really? That's what you're thinking about? Her make-up?
Make some warm milk and go to bed.
Oktober
(1,488 posts)... If a man came out dressed like a clown, I would say the same thing.
Cheers...
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Seriously?
Oktober
(1,488 posts)Isn't that one of their defining characteristics...?
I'm going to end my interaction with you at this point.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)we are discussing her performance.
Oktober
(1,488 posts)I would think she would want to put out as professional an appearance as possible. Especially after that speech flub yesterday...
DURHAM D
(32,595 posts)Response to Oktober (Reply #22)
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Oktober
(1,488 posts)Little Miss Sunshine...
gollygee
(22,336 posts)Grow up.