During a Saturday briefing, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said her city government “gave those who wished to destroy space to do that,” seemingly approving of the rioters who smashed the city’s police vehicles in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray.
A stringer for the Russian-owned Russia Today news network was frightened to find herself mobbed and then robbed by a crowd of unruly rioters during the growing riots in Baltimore on Saturday evening.
As blacks from Baltimore and other parts of the country riot in response to Freddie Gray’s April 19 death following his arrest on the 12th, The Atlantic reports that blacks increasingly “experience the police not as benevolent defenders of the peace but as an arbitrary menace.”
Video of Saturday’s violent riots in Baltimore, Maryland show an individual shielding a handicapped woman caught in the sights of a mob throwing bottles, trash cans, and other objects at random bar patrons.
Saturday Night Live star Cecily Strong hosted the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night, cracking jokes at the expense of the 2016 presidential contenders, the Clinton Foundation, attendant members of the mainstream media, and of course, President Obama.
CNN Political Commentator Errol Louis defended the network continuing its special coverage of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner instead of unrest in Baltimore by saying that people could get information via Twitter or livestreams. “I wouldn’t beat up on ourselves
Baltimore CBS affiliate WJZ reported that some businesses in the city were “targeted” as violence broke out during protests over the death of Freddie Gray. Christie Ileto reported from the intersection of Howard and Baltimore streets, where “about an hour
Baltimore ABC affiliate WMAR reported that police cars were damaged and objects were thrown at police during protests over the death of Freddie Gray on Saturday. The report said police cars had their windows and windshields smashed by trash cans
Community organizer Cherrell Brown argued, “no black person in America has reason to believe that they are going to be safe in the midst of police officers,” and US policing “is founded on anti-blackness, on slave patrols” on Saturday’s “Melissa
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan sent a group of 32 state troopers with expertise in crowd control to Baltimore as protests over the death of Freddie Gray have continued to roil the state’s largest city.
