NRO
"The mayor of Baltimore, who will spend the rest of her days living light-years from the word “Churchillian,” recently apologized for two gaffes. First, she walked back her statement that she gave rioters space to “destroy.” That’s not what she meant, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said.
" It sure sounded like it to me, and the facts on the ground seemed to line up with the rhetoric (this new video of Baltimore cops fleeing rioters is pretty compelling).
"But fair enough. People often say things clumsily in stressful situations. But then the mayor apologized for calling the destroyers “thugs.”
“There are no thugs in Baltimore,” she added. “Sometimes my own little anger translator gets the best of me.”
"Really, there are no thugs in Baltimore? It’s a thug-free zone?" Jonah Goldberg
Criminalizing reasonable police work "An incompetent prosecutor — or worse, a politically driven prosecutor who also happens to be incompetent — can do worse things than blow an important case. The more one scrutinizes the case against six Baltimore police officers said to be implicated in the death of Freddie Gray, the more one worries that the prosecution will cost lives.
Andy McCarthy
" And most importantly, they shouldn't be called "thugs" because it might be code for the dreaded n-word.
. . . " Which, frankly, we consider to be an n-sult to our n-telligence." . . .
Criminalizing reasonable police work "An incompetent prosecutor — or worse, a politically driven prosecutor who also happens to be incompetent — can do worse things than blow an important case. The more one scrutinizes the case against six Baltimore police officers said to be implicated in the death of Freddie Gray, the more one worries that the prosecution will cost lives.
Andy McCarthy
" And most importantly, they shouldn't be called "thugs" because it might be code for the dreaded n-word.
. . . " Which, frankly, we consider to be an n-sult to our n-telligence." . . .
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