USA Today – by John Bacon and William M. Welch
Protesters hurled rocks at police in riot gear in Baltimore as demonstrations escalated Monday over the death of a black man in police custody.
Dozens of people could be seen throwing objects at officers, just hours after funeral services for Freddie Gray. Some demonstrators attacked a stopped police car, leaping on the roof and hood and smashing windows.
Baltimore police said on Twitter, “The group is destroying the police car.” Moments later, police officers moved in and took down several people near the car.
Baltimore police Capt. Eric Kowalczyk said seven officers were injured, and that protesters were hurling bricks, rocks and other objects at officers. He said one officer was “unresponsive” and others had broken bones. He condemned “criminals who violently and without provocation attacked our police officers.”
He said officers would respond with tear gas and “pepper balls.”
“We will continue to keep the city safe,” he said.
Numerous police officers in riot gear responded to the demonstrations near a mall in northwest Baltimore.
A flier circulated on social media called for a period of violence Monday afternoon to begin at the Mondawmin Mall and move downtown toward City Hall, Associated Press reported. Outside the mall, a young person threw a flaming trash can at the line of officers.
The University of Maryland Baltimore shut down its campus, hours after city police announced a “credible threat” that local gangs were targeting police officers.
The police department said the Criminal Intelligence Unit had obtained information indicating “members of various gangs including the Black Guerilla Family, Bloods and Crips have entered into a partnership to ‘take out’ law enforcement officers.”
The department said law enforcement agencies and officers should take appropriate precautions. It was not clear if the threat to officers was directly tied to the concern for safety at the school.
The campus shut down at 2 p.m. “at the recommendation of the BPD.” The school cited unidentified “activities (that) may be potentially violent and UMB could be in the path of any violence.
“The safety of our students and employees is of paramount importance please vacate the campus as soon as possible.”
The schools alert was issued shortly after the funeral of Freddie Gray, which drew thousands of mourners to the downtown Baltimore church.
Gray’s death April 19 while in police custody set off a week of protests. Most of the protest were quiet — until Saturday night. That protest began peacefully with more than 1,000 people rallying at City Hall. Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said he moved through the crowd, promising that his office was making systemic changes.
Batts, who is black, said the organized protest had essentially wrapped up when tense confrontations resulted in violence. He has blamed the violence on “agitators.”
The protesters “became very violent. They began to throw objects,” Batts said Saturday night. “They picked up aluminum barricades and smashed windows at our bars and pubs.”
Patrol cars were smashed. Six police officers suffered minor injuries; 34 people were arrested.
Batts said some residents moved between police and the angry crowd, urging the protesters not to damage the city. He commended police officers for showing “tremendous restraint” and city residents for helping tamp down the unrest.
“I am proud of our residents and our police officers,” Batts said. “The vast majority of residents out here did a good job. … A small number of people felt like they had to turn this into an ugly day.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/27/baltimore-credible-threat/26454875/
“Dozens of people could be seen throwing objects at officers, just hours after funeral services for Freddie Gray. Some demonstrators attacked a stopped police car, leaping on the roof and hood and smashing windows.”
Just KNEW they’d get around to deploying their agitators eventually.
What took so long? This ‘riot’ is dead in the water if they don’t get busy.
What’s the deal here, Hatr? Is this Ferguson part 2?
It’s hard to tell this early, because people are angry enough to riot at the drop of a hat, but the feds want to keep pushing for federalized police, martial law, and it’s always good ammo for the media to ramp up the racist rhetoric too.
There are so many people who want to see this riot, it’s hard to say who’s responsible for it.
I saw one headline claiming rioters were from out of town, but it was unsubstantiated.
Saw at least 2 articles claiming this ‘rioting’ is a non-event, JR. Just saw an article on Yahoo news (my homepage, so it’s unavoidable when I log on for mail), and it showed a burning pig SUV, with the title 7 cops wounded in Baltimore riots. Reminds me of AJ, for some reason.
I believe they’re doing their damndest to turn this into a full-blown incident, but the sheeple are showing a less than satisfactory level of cooperation.
Thanks…. sounds like they tried to get the riots going but the people didn’t fall for it.
It will fail, if the MSM can’t coin a catchy name for the event i.e. Freddie Day Riots or something.
That was just act 1.
They’ll be sending in the clowns soon.
Riots, curfew, National Guard, oh my…
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I just swear the pigs that be are trying to use black vs cop to get a real civil war going so that they will have a reason for martial law. How come there are SO many blacks being killed by cops all of a sudden? Not a word from Yahoo about baby Bou Bou, or Kelly Thomas, or the homeless guy in Albuquerque (white guy) or numerous others that have died at the hands of these hired goons. They only hype the BLACK ones!
Just some notes: For the last several years, near all police trainers and superiors have been sent to Israel for training, those in turn have come back and began training Federal and local Law Enforcement. Israeli training focuses on maximum response – meaning our dumb “goi” cops are trained to use maximum force against American – Christian peoples – and the Jews are laughing behind their backs. At the same time potential law enforcement recruiting have been purposely hiring those with “suspicious and temperamental behavior”; the district Fed. A man who scored 130+ on his I.Q test for law enforcement was rejected as being too well educated and the District Federal Court of New York ruled it was ok to reject high I.Q’s as the average accepted for Law Enforcement is approximately 102 nation wide – which is equal to a tenth grade education.
All what is happening is by design, by government and the elite’s design as they are now moving to establish their One World Government this year under the UN. Get ready.
That’s correct. Cops are trained to treat everyone like the shitraeli ‘jews’ treat the palestinians.
One can only hope that if this does get larger, then the ‘jew’ tribe-members will be taken out of power forever.
For a start: adelson, bloomberg. schumer, feinstein, kagan, kristol, chertoff, soros, emmanuel, axelrod, abramoff…etc, etc, etc.
And in a righteous world, a retired spec-ops group would pay a nice visit to rothschild and end that nightmare once and for all.
That’s really all that matters…that they’re taken out and their treasonous goy enablers are as well. When they’re taken out, the power falls and americans can rebuild their nation forbidding the ‘jews’ and their poisonous ideologies.
Anything less will just be national suicide. Know that what happened in bolshevic russia will be visited 100 fold on america. Guaranteed.
-flek
AGENT PROVOCATEURS
Baltimore mayor is aiding and abetting the violence. Delayed declaration of emergency until a time that there was no way to deploy the National Guard tonight. ALso declared a curfew to start tomorrow night. Pure evil.
Someone needs to inform misinformed john angelos as to who is really behind what’s happening:
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/04/27/orioles-vp-angelos-makes-profound-statement-on-twitter-following-baltimore-protests/
“American political elite have shipped middle class and working class jobs away from Baltimore and cities and towns around the U.S.”
American political elite : No they’re the goy enablers, John, and they’re owned lock, stock, and barrel by the ‘jews’
“then followed that action around the nation by diminishing every American’s civil rights protections in order to control an unfairly impoverished population living under an ever-declining standard of living and suffering at the butt end of an ever-more militarized and aggressive surveillance state. ”
Brought to america by the ‘jews’….not the ‘american political elite’.
Get your facts straight before opening your mouth, john angelos.
-flek