3 against the White Sox and then 3 against the Devil Rays.

I was commenting because it is a big event and as bad as things are looking at this hour it will probably be worse come 7 pm.

I have been checking to see if there is any discussion of postponing the game tonight but I don't see anything yet.

Peace.

Also it takes a lot of cops to secure the game and move the crowd in and out. They may be needed elsewhere - not that that might really help at this point.

As you observed, this is about 4 miles away. Local radio in DC says they are monitoring the situation.

I'd skip the game.

The governor has the national guard on standby.


A CVS pharmacy in on fire. This is not good.

Nice.

tough guy.

as a means of settling disputes. This is simply a sociological truth, when you look at societies and their rise and fall, and how crime rates also rise and fall.

Earlier I saw a trash can on fire, but this is taking it to whole other level.

There are about 30-50 people around the police car.



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on edit, the police just took over the scene where they were trashing the police car. Seven officers have been seriously injured, they're flashing on CNN's news banner.

It looks like a serious standoff between protesters and police with emergency personell and vehicles responding...

Earlier they said they didn't think they'd bring this stuff out for fear of looking too "militarized."



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But they've been showing it live for awhile and it looks serious and scary as hell, with lines of police and all manner of emergency vehicles on the scene. They're now saying there are gangs of high school students...

threatened to attack the police today.



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And MSNBC is reporting looting.

They were practically running a Baltimore or Maryland detention center a couple of years ago. There was a big mess and many heads rolled.

Jeffrey Toobin on CNN was involved in the investigation and he said that the BGF are a pretty serious bunch.

Sending peaceful thoughts up to Baltimore from the DC burbs.

I am in no way defending the violence but you can only push around and abuse people for so long before they snap. This should not come as a surprise to them.

Man, I hate the looting. Angry people never do their cause any good by looting.

I wish some calm and peace would take hold. But things HAVE to change. Sometimes riots are necessary to precipitate change.

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During the heat of summer when schools out things could get ugly all over. Its all about the huge divide between the haves and have nots, its about the koch brothers running the government from the kings of the supreme court down to local police chiefs. Democracy is dead, chaos rules.

for well over a century. It's been happening since way before the Kochs' grandfather got off the boat from Holland. The "least" among us, the AAs here in America - those you see out in the streets - were ALWAYS the bottom of the bottom. When others caught a cold, we got pneumonia. Democracy was "dead" the day the so-called "founding fathers" declared their freedom from King George while they and their progeny set about taking it away from others - notably enslaving over a million Africans.

A critical element of the Arab Spring is that groups of people that normally do not agree banded together to overthrow the regime. Muslims and Christians. Fundamentalists and liberals.

In the current American situation, this is still about an oppressed minority. To be an "American Arab Spring" it would need to be about an oppressed *majority*.

Poverty affects 15% in the US. It probably won't be a wide spread event but pockets of violent outbreaks that chip away at the law and order of corporate run America. Corpocracy is going to become expense to maintain.

didn't do much for the Arab world, I really don't want that to happen here.

but one extreme (far right fascism) begets another extreme (lawless chaos).

black people would want in their communities, much less any other American in the U.S. would want. We just want to live without brutality - radicalism and extremism is a branch of brutality.

Jeebus.

All it does is give opponents more ammunition. This is NOT how progress is made. This is not (for the most part) attacking symbols of power or meaningful civil disobedience. This is misdirected anger, greed, and stupidity.

Before you support the rioters, think if you really want to support people like this:

Threatening someone with a knife while wearing a black lives matter shirt



happily looting a store wearing a black power shirt



posing for a selfie while looting (look in the background)

as opposed to expressing their outrage over police brutality.

n/t

Police actions are a valid issue, but this nonsense steps all over the main point that could be made to work for change. It cheapens the real issue. Police killed a guy, let's go get some candy to show our outrage.

Schools are closed tomorrow and juvenile curfew!