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It’s Official: Police Were Ordered To Stand Down And Let The Baltimore Riots Rage Out Of Control
We now have official confirmation that the rioting in Baltimore on Monday was purposely allowed to spiral out of control. Up until now, there had been some unconfirmed reports that police in Baltimore had been ordered to “stand down” during the riots, but nobody had been willing to come forward and go on the record. Now that has all changed. Michael Lewis is the Sheriff of Wicomico County, Maryland and what he has to say is absolutely jaw dropping. When he saw what was happening in Baltimore, he gathered up some of his fellow officers and drove down to the city to help. But when he got there, he says that all of the police were being ordered not to take any action and to let the rioters destroy property. Lewis made this astounding claim during a discussion on a Baltimore radio station…
A Maryland sheriff who traveled to Baltimore to help law enforcement stop Monday’s riots told 105.7 The Fan that he was stunned when officers alerted him of the orders to stand down.
Lewis says that he never heard the mayor give any particular orders, but he is very clear about the fact that the police were being instructed to “stand down” and to “let them destroy property“….
“I was sick to my stomach like everybody else. … This was urban warfare, no question about it. They were coming in absolutely beaten down. The [city officers] got out of their vehicles, thanked us profusely for being there, apologized to us for having to be there. They said we could have handled this, we were very capable of handling this, but we were told to stand down, repeatedly told to stand down,” he said. “I had never heard that order come from anyone — we went right out to our posts as soon as we got there, so I never heard the mayor say that. But repeatedly these guys, and there were many high-ranking officials from the Baltimore City Police Department … and these guys told me they were essentially neutered from the start. They were spayed from the start. They were told to stand down, you will not take any action, let them destroy property. I couldn’t believe it, I’m a 31-year veteran of law enforcement. … I had never heard anything like this before in my life and these guys obviously aren’t gonna speak out and the more I thought about this, … I had to say a few things. I apologize if I’ve upset people, but I believe in saying it like it is.”
The claims made by Lewis seem to be confirmed by “a senior law enforcement source” quoted by Fox News. And this “senior law enforcement source” says that the order to stand down came directly from the mayor…
Fox News is reporting — citing a senior law enforcement source who spoke with correspondent Leland Vittert — that Democratic Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake ordered police to allow rioters to loot stores Monday night, saying, “Let them loot, it’s only property.”
“This is coming from a very senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the orders that were given by the mayor and by her police commanders, down to the very core of the police riot units,” Vittert said on “Your World with Neil Cavuto” Wednesday afternoon. “What I am quoting now from him is, quoting the mayor, ‘Let them loot, it’s only property.’”
If this is true, this is not just a minor scandal. If what these law enforcement officers are saying is accurate, this is a scandal of monumental proportions.
And could it be possible that the scandal goes even higher? Did Rawlings-Blake speak to anyone before making this decision? Could the Obama administration be involved somehow?
In a previous article entitled “12 Unanswered Questions About The Baltimore Riots That They Don’t Want Us To Ask“, I noted that Rawlings-Blake has very close ties to the Obama administration. Could it be possible that Rawlings-Blake was told to order the police to stand down by someone in the White House?
What we do know at this point is that after public schools were let out on Monday afternoon, high school kids were forced to get off of buses and herded into the Mondawmin mall area where the “purge” that had been hyped on social media was supposed to take place.
We also know that police dressed in full riot gear were waiting for them.
But then once the rioting started, the police pulled back and let it rage wildly out of control.
This all seems very orchestrated to me.
And were they specifically ordered to not even defend their own police vehicles? On Monday afternoon, there were lots of police vehicles conveniently parked along the streets right in the middle of the riot zones. But the police officers that those vehicles belonged to were nowhere to be seen. So why didn’t the police protect their own vehicles? This all seems very strange.
Dramatic images of police vehicles being smashed and burning wildly have now been seen by hundreds of millions of people all over the planet, and those images send a very powerful message.
Of course the biggest victims in all of this are the impoverished African-American communities where the worst of the rioting took place. The police were ordered to stand down while these African-American neighborhoods were vandalized, looted and set on fire. Many businesses that were destroyed will choose to never rebuild, and many others that did survive will flee as soon as they can. In the end, those neighborhoods will be much worse off than they were before.
So did mayor Rawlings-Blake (or someone above her) purposely betray those communities?
The American people deserve some answers, because this is a very big deal.
First we saw this happen in Ferguson, and now it has happened in Baltimore.
When riots and looting break out where you live, will the police be ordered to “stand down” as well?
Chaos has come to America, and it is only going to get worse. I hope that you are getting prepared for what comes next.
Michael T. Snyder is a graduate of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and has a law degree and an LLM from the University of Florida Law School. He is an attorney that has worked for some of the largest and most prominent law firms in Washington D.C. and who now spends his time researching and writing and trying to wake the American people up. You can follow his work on The Economic Collapse blog, End of the American Dream and The Truth Wins. His new novel entitled “The Beginning Of The End” is now available on Amazon.com.
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Police were ordered to stand down because the Baltimore PD were the one’s inciting the mobs with their heavy handed tactics. I was in Baltimore and witnessed multiple occurrences of incompetent crowd control tactics. There is absolute certainty that Baltimore PD were inciting the crowds and in fact DID NOT STAND DOWN, and that’s why we saw the citizens revolt. Here’s proof: If we saw large numbers of Baltimore PD officers in the streets with riot gear; armored personnel carriers, SWAT gear, etc…..then that is a pretty good indication that they in fact did NOT stand down. If a stand down order was given, then why did we see the heavy handed police presence. Police were also observed throwing rocks back at the protestors…..that’s not a stand down posture. When a police force shows up to your neighborhood looking like the Stasi, then I would expect people to rise up with an equal and opposite force of resistance. Failure to do so results in something we don’t want in this country.
Come on, Pete. You know damn well why the police show up looking like the Stasi. It was initially to STOP the chimps from rising up with a force of resistance. They don’t even realize the entire ordeal was a shining example of decades of black mismanagement. Sure, let them burn the town down, triggering new federal subsidies to rebuild the hopeless blight. BTW, an order to stand down does not mean to remove all police presence, only to withdraw to certain pre-determined locations.
That is how commie pigs roll.
This article conflates the police and “the authorities (such as the major),” without noting there is a huge divide between the two. The sources given for the stand down are all police………….who have an agenda to make the major look bad. This is shoddy journalism at its worst, both blaming the cops for the riots at the mall and accepting unnamed police sources for saying they were told to stand down. The real story is the struggle between the police, with a history of brutality (such as murder) against the community and the city officials such as the major who are trying to protect the rights of the community. beforeitsnews should be renamed itsnotnewsbecauseitneverhappened.
Re; It’s Official: Police Were Ordered To Stand Down And Let The Baltimore Riots Rage Out Of Control
It seems this writer is a Fox Snooze Golem, or a America One CIA Monkey, or may be just stupid over a Mayor ordering the police who created a riot by their long history of thuggery and just crimes in Baltimore, to not make the situation a lot more out of control by harsh actions against the Rioters who reasonable Hate the Guts of the gov Thug Cop’s.
I have no Love for that little black mayor, [not a lot for blacks in general, or for any gov Turd, BUT, she did not desire to see and acted to stop the blacks from burning the entire city and to have dead people all over the streets and the best way was to let things go on without putting gas on the small fire that was burning that would become bigger and actually burn out of control. only monkeys are whimpering about this Order that was not a Stand Down Order, she gets a lot of points from me on that order, (gee what is this Nation going to come to if Officials starting to give orders to Protect People before Property, what an unreasonable Order for a government official to, ESPICALLY, make when the riots were the result of police-gov, crimes.
(Yes Bill O'reilly is Crying all night long over people not dying in the streets and denying him so much Pontification of his empty points and Golem Propaganda), for those who watched the Fox coverage it's should not have been missed that the Fox F---s were doing all they could to put gas on the fire and get a real story of destruction and death to cover..
To me the story of Baltimore, as with Ferguson, are just the latest story of government Thugs, COP'S, Thuging People Forever and the Victims getting Dam Tired of it and reacting to the Thugs and the GOVERNMENT COVERS UP OF THE COP CRIMES.
These Stories and Events go as well Directly to the whimpering in the Media over their being Americans in this Nation who wish to Effects Attack's in America, People who wish to go Join ISIS to Fight the American Army, [those People are not far enough to Kill americans here but will be in time], PEOPLE WHO SIMPLE BEING Gov VICTIMS HATE THIS NATIONS GOVERNMENT AND EVERY ONE IN THE GOV. the Media Trash go to Extremes to Ignore that there are Actual Victims in America of American Gov Crimes, Victims who will at some Point Retaliate, the Media goes to Extremes to not understand Baltimore, Ferguson or any other Event, the People who do not understand are the same People who watch the Media tell them something then something different just Days Latter and they never, THESE PEOPLE WAKE UP IN A NEY WORLS EVERY DAY, these are the People the Jew Media and the government believed are the only good americans, the rest of up are a National Danger and they are RIGHT. (Trapper).