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June 30, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
07:12
Mob Rule in Baltimore
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Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
In Baltimore, we have just witnessed mob rule.
It was dressed up as legal procedure, but it was mob rule.
The mob rioted, and the mob got what it wanted.
It all started on April 12th, when three white policemen arrested a black named Freddie Gray.
It was his 19th arrest.
Three more officers were then involved in taking him to the police station.
Somewhere along the way, his spinal cord was injured.
After he got to the station, he was rushed to the hospital and he died a week later.
The six officers were suspended while the Baltimore police investigated.
But as we have learned, in Ferguson, Missouri, the Trayvon Martin case, Duke lacrosse team, Eric Garner in New York, blacks can't wait for an investigation.
They want vengeance.
And so, they burned and looted.
And they got the kid glove treatment.
As the mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, explained,"We gave those who wished to destroy space to do that." When the rioters really got frisky, she did call them thugs.
But she apologized two days later.
"We don't have thugs in Baltimore," she said.
"That night we saw misguided young people." Well, let's see.
Here's some misguided young people smashing a police car.
Here are more misguided young people looting a 7-Eleven.
The misguided lady appears to be exercising black power.
And here's what is left of a sneaker store after misguided young people helped themselves.
Misguided young people also burned a CVS drugstore.
The city had begged the company to put a store in that dangerous neighborhood, but another misguided young person cut the hose that the firemen were using to put out the fire.
But this was not wanton destruction.
Misguided young people were careful to loot the place before they burned it.
The mayor wasn't the only one to say that you shouldn't call these exuberant young people thugs.
City Councilman Carl Stokes said the word was an insult.
These are children who have been set aside, he said.
They're marginalized, who have not been engaged by us.
Well, Baltimore is run by blacks.
The misguided youth are black.
Their parents and teachers are black.
So the people who misguided them must be black.
But I don't think that's the general view in Baltimore.
Demonstrators waved printed signs like the one on the right of the screen which says,"Racism is the disease.
Revolution is the cure." And along with that red sign, here's a yellow one that says,"Stop racist police terror." And here's a lady telling us that the way to stop murder by police is to"Shut down Baltimore" and"Shut down America-ka-ka." When the city's misguided young people did shut down Baltimore,
the city prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, didn't bother with a grand jury.
She surprised everyone by indicting all six of the officers right away.
And she spoke directly to the people who were tearing the place apart.
"To the youth of the city," she said,"I will seek justice on your behalf.
This is a moment.
This is your moment." She didn't say a word about seeking justice for 7-Eleven or CVS or for the sneaker store.
But she went on, and I quote, To the people of Baltimore, I heard your call for no justice, no peace.
Your peace is sincerely needed as I work to deliver justice on behalf of this young man.
Well, she as much as admitted that she indicted the officers because of the rioting.
That's sure how blacks saw it.
There's no need to go tear up the city no more, said Rene James, age 48. Abdullah Mouni, age 53, agreed.
There would have been no charges filed, he said, if it wasn't for the riot.
The city's mood turned to joy.
Violence had been rewarded.
Hundreds of people celebrated, breaking the curfew that the mayor had ordered just four days earlier.
The next day, there was a spontaneous street party of thousands of people.
It was a holiday atmosphere with dancing and singing in the streets.
The people had been heard.
There would be vengeance.
Mayor Rawlings' Blake caught the new mood.
I'm so inspired and encouraged by what I see, she told CBS affiliate WJZ.
That day, people marched through Freddie Gray's old neighborhood, chanting, Our streets!
You can't argue with that.
They tore up cop cars and looted local businesses, and most of them got away with it.
So what about the officers?
Between them, they've been charged with second-degree murder, second-degree manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, manslaughter by vehicle, second-degree assault, misconduct in office, and false imprisonment.
Something bad happened to Freddie Gray in the back of that police van, but no one tried to kill him.
He was cuffed and shackled because he was violent.
He wasn't belted into his seat, but the belting rule was just a few days old and may not have gotten to those officers.
Besides, even a cuffed and shackled man can bite you or spit on you if you bend over him and try to buckle him.
Gray was denied medical help, but prisoners claimed to be sick and injured all the time.
They'd never get to the station.
Legal experts think the case against the officers is very weak.
George Washington University law professor John Banjoff says a judge should dismiss most or even all the charges.
The legal consensus is that there might be a case for civil negligence and just possibly, depending on the evidence, criminal negligence, but it would be hard to get a conviction.
Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School says the prosecutor Mosby is putting on, quote, a show trial.
So what we've got in Baltimore is the worst possible outcome.
Blacks go on the rampage and police officers are thrown to the dogs just to calm the mob.
What better way to tell them that rioting works and to ask for more riots if the verdicts are not guilty?
You know, it reminds me of what primitive tribes do when the gods are angry.
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