Madness in Baltimore!!

[killers2]

It's very sad what is going on...have you heard about the riots and policeman being injured?  Also there are PEACEFUL protesters on the scene but also innocent policeman trying to do their jobs in containing non-peaceful protesters and looters!  I hope this crisis is brought to a close soon!   

[countrygirl12]

I just saw this.  I just read where 3 of the most violent gangs in the state have joined forces and have vowed to take out the police.  I don't get how these people who are protesting and rioting and looting think they are any better than the police they are mad at.  The businesses they are stealing from, burning to the ground, and busting windows out of - those business owners have nothing to do with any of this.  It's not their fault and they did not do anything.  And usually the person being arrested has done something to end up in that situation.  Although, in this one I have not seen anything that told WHY he was arrested to start with.

I am also sick of all this crap being made into a race thing.  When a white man is killed by police especially a black cop killing a white man the media does not even say anything.  But when they keep stories like this going and then keep bring up past stories it just gets racial tensions stirred up.  I personally could care less what color a person's skin is.  It's all about how the person acts and how they treat me.

[renee10]

I saw this earlier today in news online. I think that it's terrible and don't understand what this world is coming to.

[schoolvan]

Sorry but I haven't seen anything on it haven't been watching the news lately but the nweather

[nannycoe1]

It is a terrible situation and I am afraid it will get worse.

[mgint]

its happening over and over people using a tragedy to break the lawprotesting can be done in a peaceful way but when it turns to violence  the police have to get tough.

[moon29]

this just keeps happening it starts as peaceful and then violence breaks out and then it becomes a mob complex.  i dont know how people think that by being violent it is going to do any more then shed a bad light on their group of protesters .

[paints]

From everything I've read, most of the protesters are/were peaceful. 
But watching the news, you'd think the whole town is burning down. The motto for the news is "if it bleeds, it leads."
So it's bad, but nowhere near as bad as it could be. Or as it's portrayed to be on the news.

[ghunter]

It is so sad to see that happen, but I pray for healing for the city and for the people who are mad and think that this is helping.  Then there are the crimminals who just want to loot, I pray for them also.

[monnee]

It's deja vu all over again.  People fighting against the police who are hire to serve and protect the people.  The police definitely need to have body cameras.

[debidoo]

Yes this is awful - sometimes its hard to recognize that this is the US - we need to pray that this will stop and peace in that city will be restored. And yes the police are hired to protect and serve but sometimes they do some whack stuff and it is believed all this is over Freddie Gray - some police seem to be kind of on the rogue side and to be honest with you I dont trust that police in some cases are trustworthy.

[bowrunner]

What is sad is what the rioters have done and what the police have not been allowed to do.  When the mayor of the city says that "they must be allowed to destroy" then that's carte blanche and they took advantage of it big time.  In the meantime the politicians decided to pull the police back and let the criminals do their thing.  Now many people that owned businesses have nothing left and the decent people that live there have lost much.  In time, one would hope, the police will tell what happened to Freddie Gray which should have been done much sooner but that is no excuse for how this whole mess has been handled.  The mayor and the superintendent of police both seem to be extremely poor at their jobs.

[potluck6]

Most of those involved don't care about the man who is dead.They wanted to get free stuff from CVS and other stores and when their friends went they followed.

[lhz123]

I watched in the news, they don't care  just wanted to steal all that things and you can see how they ran inside the stores and get all that stuff.

[BlackSheepNY]

Yes, it is quite sad that some people feel the need to RIOT over everything.  I say "riot" because this is NOT "protesting."  Protesting is done peacefully and to make a point of view heard.  This is out-and-out rioting just because THEY CAN.  I've seen plenty of videos coming out of these riots and I can't believe the stupidity of people wanting to be involved in something like this.  I'm not talking about the people rioting, I'm talking about the people who want to SEE what's going on for themselves.  In the end, these are the people that are getting hurt.  One woman was in a wheelchair!  Now, why in the heck would you risk your safety, especially being in a wheelchair, just to see what's going on?

The best thing that came out of these riots is the video of a Mother, who's teenage son was dressed entirely in black and carrying a black backpack.  She saw him going towards the rioting to join the other sickos out there and she literally slapped the ever loving cr@p out of him and told him to get himself home.  In the end, Momma WON.  GOOD FOR YOU, LADY!  Maybe if some of these parents taught their kids to have RESPECT, not only for the rule of law, but for THEMSELVES, things like this wouldn't happen.

Now, I believe it's the Governor of the State who's asking for monetary support from other Americans.  You want to know where I just spent some money to help people?  NEPAL, that's where!  I refuse to spend my hard-earned buck on people who have no respect for life, law, themselves, or anyone or anything else.  They made the mess of their hometown, let THEM spend their OWN money to FIX it.  I will NOT donate until people like this start acting like human beings.