Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Doubles Down on Stupid

[Team Sergeant]

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Doubles Down on Stupid and fired the only guy that probably listens to her. She's the moron that said it was OK for the rioters to tear things up in her city..... and she's firing the police chief....

Is there anyone in Baltimore with an IQ higher than a dust mite? I can't wait to see the idiot that takes the job......


Baltimore mayor fires police commissioner

Published July 08, 2015
·Associated Press

BALTIMORE – The Baltimore mayor fired the troubled city's police commissioner Wednesday, saying that a recent spike in homicides weeks after an unarmed black man died of injuries in police custody required a change in leadership.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake thanked Police Commissioner Anthony Batts for his service — and praised the job he had done — but said growing criticism of his leadership had become a "distraction" that was preventing the city from moving ahead.

Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Davis, who has only been with the department since January, will serve as interim commissioner, Rawlings-Blake said.

"We need a change," the mayor told a news conference, which was attended by Davis by her side. "This was not an easy decision but it is one that is in the best interest of Baltimore. The people of Baltimore deserve better and we're going to get better."

The firing comes 2 1/2 months after the city broke out into riots following the death of Freddie Gray, who died in April of injuries he received in police custody. Six police officers have been criminally charged in Gray's death.

After the violence, arrests in the city plummeted and homicides spiked. On Tuesday night, gunmen jumped out of two vans and fired at a group of people a few blocks from an urban university campus, killing three people. A fourth person sought treatment for a gunshot wound to the buttocks and was in stable condition.


Police said Wednesday that the shooting wasn't random, but no arrests have been made.

"As we have seen in recent weeks, too many continue to die on our streets, including three just last night and one earlier today," Rawlings-Blake said. Referring to Batts, she said that "recent events proved that his being here was a distraction."




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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/08/baltimore-mayor-fires-police-commissioner/

[BryanK]

...Is there anyone in Baltimore with an IQ higher than a dust mite?

Speaking as someone born and raised in that area, the short answer is NO.

[Flagg]

"As we have seen in recent weeks, too many continue to die on our streets, including three just last night and one earlier today," Rawlings-Blake said. Referring to Batts, she said that "recent events proved that his being here was a distraction."

Sounds distinctly like a firefighter being fired for not putting out fires fast enough.

But what makes it ironic is the person doing the firing is the same person who encouraged the starting of the fires for which the firefighter is being fired.

[craigepo]

I thought the Mayor was the person who directed the police not to interfere with the rioters. (Or was that the Governor of Missouri? Shit, too many riots to keep up with).

Society can't continue like this. Either we are going to end up like Idiocracy, or the Rapture is getting ready to happen. So, we all need to go to church as well as buy a lot of Rondo (it's got electrolytes).

[Box]

Speaking as someone born and raised in that area, the short answer is NO.


The rest of them moved out of state in the late 70's / early 80's

[Guy]

Sounds distinctly like a firefighter being fired for not putting out fires fast enough.

But what makes it ironic is the person doing the firing is the same person who encouraged the starting of the fires for which the firefighter is being fired.More like a politician sabotaging a "potential" political candidate for an upcoming election.....

[SF-TX]

The writer provides an interesting perspective on the situation in Baltimore.

Things have been a bit rough of late on the streets of Charm City, as Baltimore calls itself — much to the amusement of nearly everyone who hears those words. In the month after Freddie Gray’s death, with six law-enforcement officers charged in connection with the incident, more people were murdered than in any month in 25 years — 42 or 43 are the accepted totals now. (As this is Baltimore, no one can agree on the actual number of dead.)

In that same period, more than 100 shootings occurred. The city has logged 144 murders in the first six months of 2015 — 74 since the Gray incident — a nearly 50 percent spike in murders from the same period last year. Three more people were killed Tuesday night in a shooting downtown near the campus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore. The deaths raised the homicide total to 155 for the year. Yet police responses to crimes and arrests have dropped from 2,677 in April, the month of Gray’s death, to 1,531 in May...

Link (http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/07/09/baltimore-its-so-much-worse-than-you-think/)

[SF_BHT]

More like a politician sabotaging a "potential" political candidate for an upcoming election.....

She just gave him time now to prepare for the upcoming election:munchin