{"id":59532,"date":"2015-04-28T07:49:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T11:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59532"},"modified":"2015-04-28T07:49:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T11:49:15","slug":"baltimore-space-to-destroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59532","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore; space to destroy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=59533\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59533\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Baltimore-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Baltimore\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Baltimore-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Baltimore-494x333.jpg 494w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Baltimore.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I guess the news for today is that parts of Baltimore suffered from looting and mindless destruction yesterday requiring the mayor of the Charm City, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, to finally ask the governor to declare a state of emergency after waiting for days. According to most witnesses, it was high school-aged thugs that began the destruction, but as the violence escalated, others flocked to the scene to take advantage of the chaos to do their Spring shopping, like the fellow in the picture above triumphantly displaying his booty.<\/p>\n<p>There was a large march of the religious community leaders in the early hours of the rioting and looting, but I can&#8217;t find any pictures of that, only pictures of the criminals. Late last night, one of my best friends for years, an African-American living in Baltimore, called to tell me that not  everyone in Baltimore was acting a fool. This morning he tells me that it&#8217;s all so embarrassing to him and his neighbors. He could see the flames from his house. He also told me that he contemplated coming to my house and sign out some weapons from the TAH Arms Room.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=59534\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59534\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Baltimore-clergy2-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"Baltimore clergy2\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Baltimore-clergy2-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Baltimore-clergy2-500x268.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Baltimore-clergy2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=59535\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59535\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Baltimore-clergy-300x114.jpg\" alt=\"Baltimore clergy\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Baltimore-clergy-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Baltimore-clergy-500x190.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Baltimore-clergy.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/CBSBALT.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=195126;hostDomain=video.baltimore.cbslocal.com;playerWidth=500;playerHeight=300;isShowIcon=true;clipId=11435175;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=CBS.BALTIMORE%252Fworldnowplayer;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/video.baltimore.cbslocal.com\" title=\"\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>But, the mayor told the media yesterday that she had given the criminals &#8220;space to destroy&#8221;, and I guess that statement wasn&#8217;t very encouraging to the peaceful citizens of Baltimore. Governor Larry Hogan activated the Maryland National Guard last night and just that announcement reduced the amount of thuggery. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/28\/us\/baltimore-freddie-gray.html?_r=0\">New York Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency, and the Maryland State Police, who took command of the response, said they would ask for 5,000 law enforcement officials from the mid-Atlantic region to help quell the violence. Some National Guard units were to arrive on Monday night, with others deploying on Tuesday in armored Humvees.<\/p>\n<p>In Washington, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, on her first day on the job, briefed President Obama, who in turn called Governor Hogan. Mr. Hogan said the president urged him to have law enforcement officers exercise restraint, and he assured the president they would. \u201cBut,\u201d the governor added, \u201cI assured him we weren\u2019t going to stand by and allow our city of Baltimore to be taken over by thugs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess the mayor should have asked for the governor&#8217;s help first instead of announcing that the toilet paper thieves had room to destroy portions of her city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the news for today is that parts of Baltimore suffered from looting and mindless &hellip; <a title=\"Baltimore; space to destroy\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59532\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Baltimore; space to destroy<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}