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Democrat-Run Baltimore is a Gangsters’ Paradise
Matthew Vadum / American Thinker
Democrats in riot-torn Baltimore really like gangsters.
As radicals and other criminals reduce their once-great city to ashes, left-wing politicians are defining deviancy down. They just can’t stop saying nice things about gangsters and when they occasionally slip up and say accurate things about them, they promptly apologize for speaking the truth. That’s the way Democrats in Baltimore roll.
As the rule of law is dynamited, they genuflect before them, salute them, and pose for photographs with them.
Gangsters have become the de facto government in the city of Baltimore. Rioting has empowered them.
The current civil unrest was sparked by the mysterious death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man. Gray, a habitual criminal offender, was arrested by Baltimore police for possession of a switchblade, according to a late-breaking news report. While in police custody he apparently suffered severe injuries that led to his death. Unlike the endlessly hyped demise of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., police malfeasance or negligence may have played a role in Gray’s death. Time will tell.
At a surreal press conference Tuesday, career criminals that Baltimore Democrats consider to be upstanding members of the community stood side by side with elected officials to plead for an end to the violence.
In a 2015 update of Rodney King’s famous 1992 quotation, “Can we all get along?” a self-identified gang member named “Trey” said they were “against the violence.”
“If we can stick together doing something negative, then we can stick together doing something positive,” the Baltimore Sun quoted Trey saying. “I need a job. Most of the youths need a job. We need help. It ain’t right what people was [sic] doing, but you’ve got to understand. Some people are struggling.”
Because Trey was dressed in red, presumably he is a member of the Bloods, which started as a street gang in Los Angeles in the 1970s. Flush with profits from crack cocaine-trafficking, it expanded across the nation in the 1980s.
For reasons that are unclear, the Bloods are not members of the Baltimore City Chamber of Commerce. Following the example of their fellow criminals at the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, perhaps it’s time for the Bloods to become a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity. They could hire former IRS official Lois Lerner, who shares their worldview, as an advisor.
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