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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: txradioguy on July 09, 2015, 08:17:45 AM
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BALTIMORE – The Baltimore mayor fired the troubled city's police commissioner Wednesday, saying that a recent spike in homicides weeks after an unarmed black man died of injuries in police custody required a change in leadership.
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake thanked Police Commissioner Anthony Batts for his service — and praised the job he had done — but said growing criticism of his leadership had become a "distraction" that was preventing the city from moving ahead.
Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Davis, who has only been with the department since January, will serve as interim commissioner, Rawlings-Blake said.
"We need a change," the mayor told a news conference, which was attended by Davis by her side. "This was not an easy decision but it is one that is in the best interest of Baltimore. The people of Baltimore deserve better and we're going to get better."
The firing comes 2 1/2 months after the city broke out into riots following the death of Freddie Gray, who died in April of injuries he received in police custody. Six police officers have been criminally charged in Gray's death.
After the violence, arrests in the city plummeted and homicides spiked. On Tuesday night, gunmen jumped out of two vans and fired at a group of people a few blocks from an urban university campus, killing three people. A fourth person sought treatment for a gunshot wound to the buttocks and was in stable condition.
Police said Wednesday that the shooting wasn't random, but no arrests have been made.
"As we have seen in recent weeks, too many continue to die on our streets, including three just last night and one earlier today," Rawlings-Blake said. Referring to Batts, she said that "recent events proved that his being here was a distraction."
"A key goal of my administration is making Baltimore a safer place. We cannot continue to debate the leadership of the department. We cannot continue to have the level of violence we've seen in recent weeks in this city. We have made progress; I don't want to lose that progress."
On Tuesday, the police department announced that an outside organization will review the department's response to the civil unrest that followed Gray's death. Most of the unrest took place on April 27, prompted by Gray's death on April 19. In the meantime, the U.S. Justice Department is conducting a civil rights review of the department, and Batts has been criticized by the Baltimore police union.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/08/baltimore-mayor-fires-police-commissioner/?intcmp=latestnews
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Since FEMA has built all those camps for us right wingers and aren't using them yet, why not move the trouble makers in Baltimore into them.....and give each one a gun....hey. equal rights you know.
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The only distraction I see - or rather an attempted distraction - is this Mayor distracting attention from the failure-consequences of her and the local state attorney's policies and actions.
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Some nerve. The commissioner just did as he was told by the stupid bitch. She ought to fire herself.
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Timeline:
Black mayor gives orders to the cops to let the rioters burn the city.
Black Police chief orders the cops not to wear protective gear during riots. 200 cops are injured and rushed to the hospital.
Black prosecutor tries three black cops and three white cops on dubious charges.
All cops are now fearful of doing their jobs.
Gangs run rampant. Gun battles in the street, murder rates grow out of control.
The nation looks at Baltimore with a WTF?
Black mayor poll numbers drop even with black voters.
Black mayor fires Black police chief blaming him for everything.
Black mayor hires a White guy as police chief, he needs to fix things and save her job.
what did we learn today, kids? When Blacks screw up they need a white guy to fix things.
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what did we learn today, kids? When Blacks screw up they need a white guy to fix things.
And as it's always been with the country, democrats screw everything up, then a republican has to fix it, then the dems take credit.
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Timeline:
Black mayor gives orders to the cops to let the rioters burn the city.
Black Police chief orders the cops not to wear protective gear during riots. 200 cops are injured and rushed to the hospital.
Black prosecutor tries three black cops and three white cops on dubious charges.
All cops are now fearful of doing their jobs.
Gangs run rampant. Gun battles in the street, murder rates grow out of control.
The nation looks at Baltimore with a WTF?
Black mayor poll numbers drop even with black voters.
Black mayor fires Black police chief blaming him for everything.
Black mayor hires a White guy as police chief, he needs to fix things and save her job.
what did we learn today, kids? When Blacks screw up they need a white guy to fix things.
:cheersmate: Hi 5!