One bit of good from an otherwise terrible situation.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts even acknowledged the mother’s actions during a press conference early Tuesday morning.
“And if you saw in one scene, you had one a mother who grabbed their child who had a hood on his head and she started smacking him on the head because she was so embarrassed. I wish I had more parents who took charge of their kids tonight,” Batts said.
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thanks for that chuckle Rabel.
She's a candidate for Mother of the Year. Good for her.
So what exactly is the national guard supposed to do if youths start throwing bricks at their heads?
Slap them upside the head? Cut a switch? Call 911? Go Kent State on their asses?
Water cannons might work. They would, however, make the thirsty people in California cry.
When a parent catches their child throwing rocks at the police, a slap upside the head is justified.
I suppose the National Guard could go all Kent State on them, but that's not tolerated.
Get rid of the police and let armed citizens move in and take care of the problem.
If the mom had done the same thing to her boy at home when he was being bad and the wrong (white) person saw it she could easily be charged with child abuse.
There's not nearly enough corporal punishment these days, in my never-have-raised-a-kid opinion.
I stood up and applauded. Give this woman a fucking medal for doing the right thing that a mother should do out of protection and embarrassment for her child. Unfortunately, this shows that she hasn't been doing that great of a job if she had to hunt him down out there, but fortunately, now everyone knows who this kid is and the utter embarrassment and ball busting he will receive for the rest of his life may save his life. However, I hope CPS doesn't show up at the mom's house.
I am choosing to ignore Baltimore. I've seen this all before, in Detroit in 1967. Back then the US Army Airborne troops, plus the Michigan National Guard swept the streets with bayonets on every rifle. I was glad to see them. Check your bravado at the door when you face a broad rank of troops with bayonets pointed at you. Morons who rampage harm their own people more than anyone else...and that was the case in Detroit...this is merely deja vu.
And...the idiots run away from bayonets. No need for Kent State again, the force of martial law will suffice.
One thing it does, aside from restoring needed order, is that it strengthen an already super strong state.
I'm reminded of the Rahm Emanuel quote. "Never Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste"
I should handled locally.
Here is all you need to say about that video.
Bonus Sonny Bono sighting!
What black America needs in droves.
As well as black fathers (those that survive to 25 or so) who are willing to let their wives at home because they're the ones who go upside the little punk's head.
Rabel said...
So what exactly is the national guard supposed to do if youths start throwing bricks at their heads?
Slap them upside the head? Cut a switch? Call 911? Go Kent State on their asses?
At some point, it will have to happen.
I'm with Aridog. I'm ignoring the outrage theater. I heard something about the suspect denied an inhaler. I don't know how burning down a CVS solves that problem. That was enough to make me happy to live in Texas away from all that nonsense.
I did read the articles about the Milwaulkee Sheriff. No wonder this stuff ain't happening in his city.
It's a man bites dog occurrence.
Sorry, its Deja Vu all over again. Once again, mike brown, and Trayvon Martin are forgotten and the MSM rushes to judge the police guilty. Then we get the rioting and the usual lectures on the black underclass and how AmeriKKKa is failing the poor dears. Of course, unlike Ferguson, the Baltimore police chief, Mayor, and 60% of the city council are all black, so the cry of "White racism" rings hallow.
I doubt many bricks will be thrown. Most "Youths" want to have their fun with more easier targets than a man with a bayonet and an M-16.
Doing Dad's job. Again. The second Black holocaust is absentee fatherism.
She's going to need a gofundme.
AllenS ...I agree that bayonets are useless against opposing gunfire. However in most mob actions, like those in Detroit in 1967, most of the idiots did not have guns. A tight rank, of squad size of larger & moving resolutely forward with bayonets pointed toward the idiots on a sidewalk or roadway will disperse them. At least it did in 1967 here...and yes, we also had gunfire from both police and military, up to .50 Caliber size, when the bayonets weren't enough. I think that our "riot" was the deadliest in riot history so far.
The point is, when you show force, use it...graduating from bayonets up to machine guns when necessary. So you point is swell taken.
AllenS....I am one who really really appreciated the 82nd Airborne troops sweeping the streets here because I was a "permissible curfew breaker" (IIRC 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM) due to working full time and going to college at night...those tight ranked guys, with bayonets, made it possible to drive through the city more or less safely. When stopped they gave me no guff or nonsense, with weapons pointed at me none-the-less, just asked to see my work and school credentials. Detroit back then, like Baltimore today, sat on its heels with politicians debating, for too long...but once the troops were deployed from their enclaves, it began to settle down slowly but certainly.
Detroit is questionable as a "race riot"...a number of issues, looting by both black and white, fires set the same way, sniping from lord knows who, with 33 blacks killed by police & army, and 10 whites as well. A few deaths were tragic, like the little girl hit by machine gun fire aimed at snipers...rounds penetrated the floor below her and she was hit and killed.
As I have said Baltimore is deja vu to me...which is really insane given the 44+ years between them (do we learn nothing?)...none-the-less, same scenario.
Summer 1967 --
I was attached to the 82nd back then. My unit, 3 Bat 503rd Inf. 173d Abn Bde was formed out of the 82nd in 1967. We were going through training, to deploy to Viet Nam and add another Bat to the "Herd".
We were at Bragg, when this shit went down. We went through riot training, I guess because we were going to go to Detroit, if things didn't work out.
Now, the big problem, and I don't know where this came down from, but NO BLACKS WERE DOING THE RIOT TRAINING, THEY WERE STANDING AWAY FROM US, AND JUST WATCHING THE RIOT TRAINING. Just whites and Mexicans participated in the riot training.
The main force of our unit had bayonets, and we were taught to form in a wedge. We only had just a couple of people who were going to have a weapon with bullets. I was one of them, and watching my black friends look at that, made me feel very, very uncomfortable. Most knew that it wasn't my decision, but some didn't.
Believe me, this was not a good idea, and whenever I hear that Federal troop, or National Guard personnel are going to be deployed, it breaks my heart, knowing how this might tear a unit apart.
I'll say it again, remove the police and ask citizens to rise to the occasion and put this rioting down.
I'm supportive of this woman and her actions. I note in passing, however, that she claims to be the single mother of six children. That seems quite a lot. I'd hold back on making her the mother of the year until more info is available.
Thank you, William, I stand corrected.
AllenS ... I think you were fortunate in not actually deploying to Detroit with the initial elements....if I understand you correctly. It was a surreal time and unpredictable moment to moment. And your memory is good, the 82nd troopers were limited in their ammunition (I don't know if they carried more loose in magazines or not)...but the National Guardsmen were not limited, full mags (clips actually as most had M1 Garands) in the rifles and in their kit...hence the kill ratio of 82nd Airborne to National Guardsmen was 1:10. The 82nd had better fire control I'd say. Still, IMO the 82nd guys did the best job in the toughest part of town....they were as "tight" in formation as any drum top skin. Also, the National Guardsmen included black NCO's, most with combat unit patches on their right shoulders, along with white em's of various ranks.
I know the feeling of being sent with my squad (plus another one at the other end of the village) to protect a camp follower village from rampaging drunken GI's (mostly Air Force, go figure) and local civilians in Korea...we were "issued" 5 rounds apiece for 8 or 9 guys against 5000 meant that was 4 for them and one for yourself...we joked. Needless to say, we all cheated and carried at least 120+ in bandoleers under our fatigue blouses. Good thing for all that the rifles and bayonets were enough to discourage the idiots.
Another thing, the National Guard had M48 tanks and used their M2 turret mounted .50 caliber MGs against snipers. Weird to be sitting in traffic going to work or school along side a tank on the median hosing a building top to bottom for snipers...while you awaited anxiously for the red light to turn green. As I said...it was surreal all week. Strange days indeed.
What made me enlist in 1968...after all that, is anyone's guess. I know why but most don't...I'd made a promise to do so upon graduation.
We just had a raid shooting of a black dude by an ICE officer, along with DPD cops, today...so who knows where it goes from there tomorrow. I'm betting it will be quiet....We've come too far here to take steps backwards. I hope.
Finally...after watching a quick scan of broadcast news and cable new, I have to say that Fox's Hanity is a class A idiot...asking his reporters in the field to ask questions that could get their butts kicked ... and none of the questions were germane to today....just muckraking old stuff. By 10:15 PM the "mob" left was all news folk...and I thought Congressman Elijah Cummings (who represents the area), or his security detail, might deck the reporters who followed Hannity's guidance.
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