Thinking about taking a vacation....what about Baltimore?

[Baz]

[Rikao4]

civilized..lol..
only thing missing...
was the howling of Hyenas in the night..
Baltimore..Sierra Leon..not much difference..

Rika

[Crack4h8r's]

Originally Posted by HardDrive

"I love the smell of Molotovs in the morning!"

[Porsche-O-Phile]

[widgeon13]

Lets hope it isn't a lynching.

Wonder what a jury of their peers will look like?

[Crack4h8r's]

If you read the criminal complaint posted online, it looks really bad for the cops.

The DA said the arrest was outright illegal to begin with. All kinds of dept procedures were ignored, several requests for aid were ignored, even by supervisors, etc.

I think 3 of the cops charged are black.

[widgeon13]

My impression is that this is being made into a witch-hunt. She is going to have difficulty proving her case especially if three of the officers are AA.

This is not going to have a storybook ending.

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

Lets hope it isn't a lynching.

Sadly, that is exactly what it is..
The other guy in the van claimed, at one point that freddy was banging his head, could he he was trying to hurt himself since he had the previous neck injury to sue the city for a LOTTO payout??
Wouldn't be the 1st time.

[Baz]

Time to enforce the curfew!!!!

[daepp]

"After riots overtook West Baltimore on Monday, a hashtag began to appear on Twitter and other social media — #BALTIMORELOOTCREW — linking together posts that depicted pilfered prescription drugs and demolished store shelves.

But that "crew" was not actually in Baltimore protesting the death of Freddie Gray, according to a local cybersecurity company. Many photos shared using that label, and others, were taken years ago, and often not even in the United States, employees at Federal Hill-based ZeroFox found.

Bad actors and so-called "hacktivists" descended on Baltimore — electronically, at least — this past week, flooding social media with automated accounts and inauthentic images, said James C. Foster, CEO of the social media risk management firm. Law enforcement and cybersecurity experts said such barrages increasingly target areas of unrest around the world, spurring violence and challenging efforts to contain it.

"There's a global reach now where they don't have to be here to further instigate it," Foster said.

The company's specialty is rooting out cyber criminals lurking on social media. And when West Baltimore erupted in rioting Monday, its employees felt compelled to apply their skills. ZeroFox worked into the night tracing tweets and Facebook accounts that shared photos of looting and violence."

What they found was that much of the activity was coming from well outside of Baltimore, in some cases from Russia, China, India and the Middle East.

"I just killed a pig," wrote one tweet, showing a bloodied police officer slumped on the ground. Not only was the photo of an officer in South America, but the account sharing it was not in Baltimore."

'Hacktivists' from around the world take to social media to stir Baltimore unrest - Baltimore Sun

[daepp]

Fascinating - and scary as hell...

"Americans have never really understood ideological warfare. Our gut-level assumption is that everybody in the world really wants the same comfortable material success we have. We use “extremist” as a negative epithet. Even the few fanatics and revolutionary idealists we have, whatever their political flavor, expect everybody else to behave like a bourgeois.

We don’t expect ideas to matter — or, when they do, we expect them to matter only because people have been flipped into a vulnerable mode by repression or poverty. Thus all our divagation about the “root causes” of Islamic terrorism, as if the terrorists’ very clear and very ideological account of their own theory and motivations is somehow not to be believed.

By contrast, ideological and memetic warfare has been a favored tactic for all of America’s three great adversaries of the last hundred years — Nazis, Communists, and Islamists. All three put substantial effort into cultivating American proxies to influence U.S. domestic policy and foreign policy in favorable directions. Yes, the Nazis did this, through organizations like the “German-American Bund” that was outlawed when World War II went hot. Today, the Islamists are having some success at manipulating our politics through fairly transparent front organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Gramscian damage