Forgive all these posts about Baltimore riots, you see, I kind of live in Baltimore, so this shit is happening in my backyard. We are in a state of emergency and the national guard is deployed. Shit is burning to the ground,businesses are being looted, people are being attacked etc etc. We are the 36th most dangerous city in the world IN A GOOD DAY, so imagine how fucked up the shit is if the NATIONAL GUARD actually is mobilized or we’re put in a state of emergency. Now I don’t live in the city downtown, but I live in the outskirts, and the college I go to is in the heart of the city, just a bit out from the harbor. So I’ve been there, I’ve seen shit, hell my university didn’t actually let us out until a CVS basically RIGHT UP THE STREET FROM US WAS SET ON FIRE. This is how fucking close I was from my university to the CVS. A 6 minute drive. A 30 minute walk. Does that seem like a lot? Try putting THIS into perspective. Just 5 minutes away there is total anarchy. Tell me, how safe does that thought make you feel? And it’s frustrating, yea, there’s corruption and unfairness with SOME police officers. The media spins its tale like it always does, and makes it seem like every cop is corrupt. And now, the city is burning to the ground. People like to keep saying how people’s lives > inanimate objects. Apparently, destroying INNOCENT people’s livelyhood when they raze a building to the ground is nothing. Apparently throwing rocks and other objects through windows of a car WITH PASSENGERS STILL INSIDE is fine. APPARENTLY ATTACKING POLICE OFFICERS WHO HAVE DONE NOTHING BUT TRY TO KEEP THE PEACE IS FINE. It’s so bad that rival gangs are actually uniting. That’s right - THE BLOOD AND THE CRIPS HAVE JOINED FORCES. And many (not all of course, but still many) are protesting PEACEFULLY or stopping VIOLENT LOOTERS. That’s right - some of the most fiercest American gangs in the 36th most dangerous city in the world are acting MORE CIVILIZED THAN “CIVILIZED CITIZENS.”
AND THEN YOU HAVE FUCKING PEOPLE ON TWITTER OR SOMETHING TELLING US TO PUT IT INTO PERSPECTIVE. How about you come into the fucking city before telling us about perspective? Like fucking Sally Kohn saying WE should put it into perspective when she’s not even in the damn city. And then she has the nerve to use a hashtag #Baltimorerising when it’s burning to the ground all around us. The only thing rising right now is the smoke from all the places being burned to the ground. Yet you’re fed up with cop brutality and want to sit in your home somewhere outside of Baltimore and tell us to put things into perspective? How about this for perspective? Because of a certain few corrupt or power-hungry police officers, the media has spun a tale, and thanks to it and literally a handful of deaths, an entire city is shut down, innocent people who have done nothing wrong are being put in harm’s way by the very people who would like to protest innocent people being put in harm’s way, there’s a city’s worth of property damage and buildings burned to the ground, and a lot more people who will probably lose their livelyhood over it. Because of this GOOD LAW-ABIDING COPS ARE NOW BEING PLACED IN DANGER. Is that perspective for you? Millions in damages, a total freeze on the city, a war zone, a state of emergency, police in the way of danger, rioters in the way of danger, the national guard in the way of danger, innocent fucking bystanders in the way of danger. So don’t tell me to put things into perspective, especially if you don’t live in Baltimore. Get your ass in the city and be just a few minutes away from total anarchy then let’s see what you think of perspectives.
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