How Riot Supporters Think "Walter Hudson has already drawn your attention to an article in Salon endorsing urban guerrilla warfare as a viable strategy for “the oppressed.”
"It’s important to take articles like this very seriously. One is tempted to shrug—”well, it’s Salon“—and go on with one’s day. But Salon is not The Socialist Worker. It isn’t even what Ramparts
used to be. It reaches a much wider audience, and those who read it and
write for it are not solely members of obscure sects like the
Revolutionary Communist Party. They are registered Democrats and
independents. They are students, teachers, journalists, and the baristas
at Starbucks. They’re all around." . . .
. . . Clearly, Rawlings-Blake did not want to be seen as bringing the hammer down on "protestors." She went to great pains to try and separate "legitimate" protestors from the "thugs.' " . . .
The Weasel of the Week Award goes to...
"Yes, once again, It’s time to present this week’s statuette of shame, The Golden Weasel!!
"Every Tuesday, the Council nominates some of the slimiest, most despicable characters in public life for some deed of evil, cowardice or corruption they’ve performed. Then we vote to single out one particular Weasel for special mention, to whom we award the statuette of shame, our special, 100% plastic Golden Weasel. This week’s nominees were all spectacularly disgusting, but the votes are in and we have our winner winner… the envelope please…
Washington Post reports that Freddie Gray was trying to hurt himself in police van
#BaltimoreRiots Teen Thanks Mom, while American U Prof calls her Mammie
“ 'I understand how much my mother really cares about me. I just got to try to do better.' ” Video at the link.
“What caught my eye was his sweatpants,” she told ABC News. “Even though he had on all black, I knew those sweatpants he had on, they had a stripe on the side of it and then his eye contact met mine. And I knew that was my son.”
"Though he was visibly annoyed and tried brushing off his mom in the video that has now gone viral, the 16-year-old recognizes that she was just looking out for him.
“I’m like, ‘Oh man! What is my momma doing down here?'” Michael told ABC News, laughing while thinking back to the moment his mom nabbed him Monday afternoon.
“All my friends know my mother. Every time they see her they’re like, ‘Toya coming.’ Oh, yeah she’s coming. Everybody better get straight,” he said."