Actually most of the stores which were destroyed by arson last night in Baltimore where "Mom and Pops" most of which were either under-insured or not insured at all. The same thing happened in Ferguson, Missouri where eight months later almost no reconstruction has taken place. The tragedy is twofold, most of the stores were owned by residents of the community, and the community no longer has those stores.
The CVS store was one that the City of Baltimore had spent considerable time and effort convincing the chain to build. It was the only pharmacy serving the area. As part of a publicly traded company with a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders one wonders whether management will be able to justify rebuilding the store and the increased cost of insuring it.
Unfortunately the Mayor blew it, statements like (Saturday) property damage has to be tolerated, and when things started looking bad on Monday Afternoon not calling the Governor and admitting that matters were getting out of control and that Baltimore needed a declaration of a State of Emergency and the State Police and the National Guard have proved to have been serious errors.
As evidence you can see what a paradise Camden NJ is after all the riots there....
You misspelled neoliberal there. Shoulda been failed neo liberal policies. (so close). And then you had to tack on some family values bullshit. (so far!) Ah well. At least you forgot to mention "thugs" so, errrr... progress?
Criminals are in it for money and racially profiling an innocent person is not profitable for them.
The problem isn't a few rogue cops. It's an institutional failure in the way they train cops. And too little effective oversight.
Not all of them:
i also saw lots of video of older people in the community trying to physically stop the rioters..Not all of them:
https://twitter.com/jjouvenal/status/593009704827256832/photo/1
https://twitter.com/RonMatzWJZ/status/593012075770806272/photo/1
But more than just a handful of Good Samaritans cleaning up the burnt-out CVS in the aftermath of yesterday's riots, there are good people out in the streets protesting as well. Makes it all the worse that there are inevitable fuckwits that burn and loot, but it certainly does NOT make it null and void that there were also ordinary, justifiably angry, (and good) people protesting.
The failed strategy was to give the protesters "space to vent" and not have a show of police force. A gentler, more sensitive police presence.
Of course there were good people out protesting, the problem is that their voices are drowned out when thugs loot and burn.Not all of them:
https://twitter.com/jjouvenal/status/593009704827256832/photo/1
https://twitter.com/RonMatzWJZ/status/593012075770806272/photo/1
But more than just a handful of Good Samaritans cleaning up the burnt-out CVS in the aftermath of yesterday's riots, there are good people out in the streets protesting as well. Makes it all the worse that there are inevitable fuckwits that burn and loot, but it certainly does NOT make it null and void that there were also ordinary, justifiably angry, (and good) people protesting.
You guys just want to blame any black or democrats leaders in office! When hurricane Katrina hit N.Orleans, I'm sure you guys weren't jumping on Bush or Brownie(whatever his name).
I thought of the corrupt Levee Control Boards that didn't do their jobs, and the now imprisoned Mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin
When things like that happen, often the times a lot of blame can go around. But too often people just want to focus blame on people they don't like. For example, I didn't vote for Bush, but I really didn't blame him for that mess in N.Orleans.
