Russia Today is showing a less than positive image of the United States as a video shows its reporter trying to report on the protests in Baltimore last week only to be mugged on camera. Fortunately, police were in the area and apprehended the suspect. In the meantime, another disturbing video shows City Paper Photo Editor J.M. Giordano was tackled and beaten by Baltimore City police outside of Western District headquarters last night while covering the protests. The attack on a journalist by police was accompanied by the arrest and charging of another reporter for disorderly conduct.
The protests have followed the death of an African American man, Freddie Gray, in police custody. Six officers have been injured in the later protests and 34 people arrested.
One group looted a convenience stores and broke store windows. Another group smashed the front window of a department stores and threw flaming debris at police.
The group involved in the attack on the journalist was shown yelling profanities before the mugging:
The majority of protesters however remained peaceful.
City Paper Photo Editor J.M. Giordano was beaten outside of Western District headquarters. He was standing next to the protester in the video and facing the police line, at about 12:30 when someone threw a rock which hit a police officer’s shield. That appears to have triggered the violent response. The video was shot by City Paper Managing Editor Baynard Woods who is heard yelling, “He’s a photographer! He’s press!” Giordano was not arrested though the man next to him was, even though Giordano says that he did not throw anything. However, he says that Reuters photographer Sait Serkan Gurbuz, was arrested nearby and taken away in the police van. Gurbuz was later released and cited for disorderly conduct.
Police apologizes later for the confusion with the reporters.
DBQ, I’m a news junkie but I stopped following these freak shows a few months ago. It’s tough, because it’s red meat for our cop hating JT!
The more that this happens, the less I care.
Rioters, mugged journalists, dead street thugs. The Nerd Prom preening on their own elitism and how smart they are. Laughing and drinking like they are staring in the Hunger Games…and …it seems that they are. Announcing that they are much better than the fly over country knuckle dragging dance of sloping forehead types.
Everyone crying for safe havens from icky thoughts that don’t agree with theirs. Fainting couches on campus. Trigger warnings. Perpetual outrage about everything. Thought police scrutinizing the tiniest things we do for infractions. Nagged daily about what we eat and how we should live.
White privilege. Being blamed for things that happened hundreds of years before we were born. Black lives matter. Asians are too smart, keep them out of school. Gay Mafiosa. Thought crimes again. Common Core making us even dumber than before, if that is possible.
Racism…Racism….Racism everywhere including in my chocolate cake.
I just don’t care anymore. Frankly. I think our trip to H3ll in a hand basket should go faster so we can get it over with.
All main stream news outlets are highly controlled but in my opinion both RT and Aljazeera are much better than any from out of the US, UK and the other G-12 and/or NATO countries.
I have another name for a logical fallacy. It’s called “The Bill Clinton.” It’s when you insist something is red that everyone knows is black. In Clinton’s case, that a blow job is not sex.
My favorite Bill Clinton coming from the more socialist side of the spectrum is that taxation is not legalized theft; it’s ones responsibility to your community. They fail to consider, if the taking of property by force is not legalized, then society has historically deemed this to be theft and thus a crime. The idea that it may be a social responsibility does not negate it’s role as a tool that requires legalization by the nation state and then it’s required enforcement through force and coercion because we all disagree on the levels of responsibility we owe our community. Each of us hope that the rule by various levels of plurality will somehow mitigate our differences. With 1/3 of society living at or near the poverty line and some 115 different tax and regulatory fees instituted today, it is highly debatable as to the use of a democratic republic to secure a reasonable compromise.
There is a Freudian slip police, “apprehended the clearly upset journalist” and “six” instead of “sic.”
As long as JT has determined the majority of protestors remain peaceful then clearly this is all just fine.
For the record, in the shot the first video shows as default:
The woman in the skirt was egging on protesters and calling them names. She even tried to take a man’s bag. This is directly from one of the people that tried to hold her back in another photo (which is going around claiming that the man is trying to steal the woman’s bag)
I have FAP satellite internet, so I couldn’t look at more than a few seconds of the videos. That protest turned ugly fast. And those people weren’t very bright to get their faces full in the camera before mugging the reporter. “Look, Mom! I’m going to go to jail!” I couldn’t see the video part where a reporter was arrested, so I do not know if there was excessive use of force there. I can understand why he would have been thrown to the ground, though, if he was standing in a mob that got violent and was next to someone who threw a rock at a cop’s head.
Such roiling violence is a powder keg. We’ve all seen this before – the mobs “for justice” that end up looting and burning down their own neighborhoods. And so have the cops in that line.
Once again, people are mobbing in the streets before they know what happened.
I do agree that we need to leave no stone unturned to discover what happened. If there was wrongdoing, it should be punished according to our laws.
The only thing I know about this case is that Gray had asthma, did not have his inhaler, did not receive prompt medical attention for an asthma attack, and was found to have suffered a broken spine somewhere between his arrest and arriving at a hospital.
As an asthmatic, I think the moment that someone tells the police they have asthma and do not have their inhaler, they need to find out if he has one and get it, or take him to the hospital to get one. He had been running. If his triggers were exercise, fear, or both, he would have gotten in trouble very fast. How long can you hold your breath? Too many people think if you can talk, you’re OK. People can sometimes gasp out last words up until they die of an asthma attack. So my first question, is how did they react when they were told he had asthma? Did they look for his inhaler? Was he wheezing?
The second question is how was he injured. Was his spinal chord also injured, so he would have not been ambulatory? Was it the vertebrae only and not the spinal chord? I ask because my sister broke her back after a horse flipped on her. She didn’t even know right away she had cracked a couple of vertebrae. She went to the doctor a few days later. In addition, someone in my family was a drug addict. He overdosed on prescription meds and I think a few other things, and had a seizure so severe he cracked his vertebrae. He had to wear a brace but he was also ambulatory.
So what I want to know was, did he fall and injure himself during the chase, not realizing he was hurt so badly? Did the officers arresting him exacerbate a cracked vertebrae and then injure his spinal chord? If the actual injury happened during the chase, the officers could have just caught him and arrested him like normal, and had no idea he had just cracked his back. A normal arrest could have then led to a spinal chord injury. OR did they beat him up in the van for making him chase them? As far as I’ve heard, he did not show any other injuries, which would have been evident from a beating. Did he have an obvious injury to his back, like from the step of the van?
I understand why the police are not trickling out evidence during an investigation. But I do want them to release all evidence once the investigation is complete.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-gray-ticker-20150425-story.html#page=1
So I guess I am not the only one who daily tunes into RT.com for news.
American news is such pablum, and the videos are heavily censored and edited, but, it is the go to place for in depth discussion and videos of celebrities.
Mayor of Baltimore Stephanie Rawlings-Blake”
Gray’s neck
How did Gary’s neck get broken?
Was it another body slam?
Riots have a mind of its own. As far as the police handling, I am not sure they are far wrong in arresting everybody and letting God sort out the innocent.
If the police responsible for Gray’s death, and the police were responsible, are not charged at the very least with hooliganism and manslaughter, there will be no joy in Baltimore. They intentionally exposed Gray to danger in the ride in the van. They caused his death. The rest is the blue line.
Reporters really need one of those gun cameras we’ve heard so much about.
So tell me, who’s up for the next Oriole’s game?
And while blacks were rioting and looting on April 25, the city of Baltimore forced the primarily white fans to stay inside Camden Yards until 10 p.m.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BnVtG9KJxWo/VT2iucmxh5I/AAAAAAAAC5A/LZVIqrQ2ne4/s1600/Baltimore.png
Baltimore is infested with friggin putins.
After reading this I say a pox on both their houses. Looting is not protesting and attacking a journalist is not policing.
The majority of protesters however remained peaceful.”
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
The Sun’s view:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-protest-journalists-20150426-story.html
Sounds like there wasn’t much difference between the demonstrators and the police – violence was the default reaction.
The demonstrators did steal, but on the other hand, being arrested costs money (and results in a police record).
Seems that the only real difference is that the demonstrators are called thugs and the police are called “pbublic servants”.