JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
OTHER BALTIMORE LOOTING-BURNING
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/baltimore-lunatic-rioting-students.html
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,(sex while married) nor effeminate,(HARDENED SODOMITES) nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards,(ALCOHOLICS) nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
JEREMIAH 17:9
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
UPDATE APR 28,2015-05:15PM
THERES LOTS OF PEOPLE ON THE STREETS IN BALTIMORE NOW.THEY SAID-SOME NUTCASE CRIMINAL THUG TRIED TO SET FIRE TODAY AGAIN TO CVS-PHARMACY. THESE NUTCASES WILL NOT STOP TRYING TO BURN CVS TO THE GROUND.THIS GOON SHOULD BE SHOT IN THE LEGS AND CRIPPLED ON THE SPOT.THEN TAKEN TO A FEMA CAMP FOR RE-EDUCATION QUICK.THIS SICKOS A REAL LOONEY.TO TRY TO BURN A BURNT OUT PLACE DOWN AGAIN.THIS HAPPENED A LITTLE EARLIER. ITS NOW 5:15PM.WITH ALL THIS VIOLENCE IN BALTIMORE.IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME IF A GIGANTIC STORM-EARTHQUAKE OR TORNADO WOULD KILL 40 OR 50 PEOPLE IN BALTIMORE.GOD SAYS BECAUSE OF VIOLENCE-HE WILL DESTROY THE PEOPLE WITH THE EARTH.OR STORMS-EARTHQUAKES OR TORNADOES.OR OTHER WAYS BY THE EARTH.ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASES.OR POISON WATER. GOD CAN DESTROY WITH THE EARTH IN VARIOUS WAYS TO STOP THE VIOLENCE. SOME DISASTER LIKE THAT COULD MAYBE WAKE UP THE THUG-CRIMINALS AND LAWLESS- VIOLENT CRIMINALS.ITS BEEN PEACEFUL SO FAR.BUT DARKNESS IS IN 4 HOURS.THATS WHEN THE SLIM BAG-THUG-MOBSTERS COME OUT TO PLAY DEATH WISHES.AGAINST POLICE AND INNOCENT CITIZENS BUSINESSES AND PROPERTY. TOM FUENTES AGREES WITH ME.THE AGE OF THE CRIMINALS MEANS NOTHING.IF THERE 15 OR 50.IF THEY DO THE DESTRUCTION.THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN ARRESTED. THE MAYOR OF BALTIMORE-STEPHANIE SAID BECAUSE OF THE MOBSTER-THUGS AGES LAST NIGHT.THATS WHY THEY NEVER LET THE POLICE ARREST THE KIDS.AND LET THEM BURN-LOOT-ARSON.MEANWHILE ONLY 34 OF THE 235 WERE KIDS ARRESTED.SO THATS A LAME-BRAIN EXCUSE BY THE MAYOR TO LET THE THUG MOBSTERS.BURY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN DAMAGES TO PROPERTY.
UPDATE APR 28,2015-03:15PM
AT 2:15PM-ONE LUNATIC CRIMINAL THREW SOMETHING AT POLICE.AND INSTAN TLY 5 OR 6 OFFICERS CAME IN THE CROWD AND ARRESTED THAT CRIMINAL. AND PEPPER SPRAYED ANYONE WHO TRYED TO STOP THE OFFICERS FROM GETTING THE CRIMINAL OUTTA THERE.NOW THE OFFICERS ARE TAKING QUICK ACTION AGAINST THESE LUNATICS.THIS DEFINATELY WILL NOT BE LIKE LAST NIGHT. PRAISE GOD FOR THAT.AND TODAY EVEN THE PEACEFUL PROTESTERS ARE BLOCK ING THE CRIMINAL-MOBSTERS FROM THROWING BOTTLES AND STUFF AT POLICE. AND THEY STAND IN FRONT OF THE CRIMINALS.TO STOP THEM.THERES 1,000 OFFICERS AND NATIONAL GUARD IN BALTIMORE NOW.AND THE PROTESTERS ARE STILL PEACEFUL.AND PEOPLE WERE CLEANING UP THE MESS THAT THE CRIMIN ALS MADE IN BALTIMORE LAST NIGHT.ITS ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT OF MEMBERS OF THE LUNATIC CRIMINALS THAT CAUSES ALL THE LAWLESS ACTIVITY. AND FINALLY SOME BIG WIGS IN THE BALTIMORE GOVERNMENT ARE FINALLY ADMITTING ITS THEIR MISTAKE FOR NOT GETTING THE RIGHT EDUCATION AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE KIDS.THAT HAVE DROVE THEM TO VIOLENCE INSTEAD.I TOTALLY DISAGREE.ITS THE PERSON THAT CHOOSES WHAT HE OR SHE DOES.THEY CHOOSE TO DO THE CRIME.THEY THEN HAVE TO DO THE TIME.
UPDATE APR 28,2015-01:52PM
FROM 12:45PM TILL ONE PM.OBAMA HAD A PRESS CONFERENCE WITH JAPANS ABE.AND NEAR THE END OF THE QUESTION PERIOD.OBAMA FINALLY MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT BALTIMORE.HE SAID SORRY FOR THE LOSS OF GRAY.HE SAID ONLY 5 CRIMINALS DONE ALL THE DAMAGE OR A HAND FULL OF CRIMINALS.HE PUT IT.HE THEN BLAMED THE MEDIA FOR ALWAYS SHOWING THE BURNING BAPTIST SENIORS HOME.THEN HE SAYS THIS HAS BEEN COMING FOR A LONG TIME.HE THEN BLAMED ALL THE POLICE FOR THESE DESTRUCTIVE ACTS BY THE LUNATIC-LAWLESS-CRIMINALS.AND HE THEN SAID LIKE A TIPICAL ARAB- MUSLIM. ITS BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMY-THE EDUCATION SYSTEM.THAT THE BLACKS ARE THROWN ASIDE.AND THIS MUST CHANGE.SO THE BLACKS AND AMERICA CAN COME TO GRIPS WITH THIS BLACK RACISM.BUT THE ONE THING OUR ARAB-SUNNI MUSLIM-PARTIAL BLACK OBAMA FAILED TO MENTION.WHO DEALS THE DRUGS-GETS INVOLVED IN MOBSTER-GANG ACTIVITY. AND THINK THEY CAN LOOT-BURN-RIOT-KILL-STEAL.LIKE THEIR GODS.AND GET AWAY WITH IT.JUST BECAUSE THEIR BLACK.AND CAN USE THE RACE CARD AS AN EXCUSE FOR THESE VIOLENT AND CRIMINAL-LAWLESS ACTIVITIES.AND GET AWAY WITH IT.IS MY QUESTION.OK OBAMA-SO WHO NEEDS THE REFORMS AND MIND CHANGES. SURE NOT THE WHITE POLICE OFFICERS.WHO ARE UPHOLDING THE LAW.WHILE THE BLACKS THINKS THEY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT.AND GET AWAY WITH IT.235 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED SINCE LAST NIGHT.INCLUDING 34 JUVINILES AND 201 TEENS AND ADULTS.19 BUILDINGS WERE BURNED DOWN.144 CARS BURNED UP.AND 1,500 PLACES WERE EITHER LOOTED OR DAMAGED BY THE LAWLESS THUG-MOBSTER CRIMINALS LAST NIGHT.THERES ABOUT 200-300 PROTESTERS ON THE STREET AS OF NOW.AND IT HAS BEEN PEACEFUL SO FAR. EXCEPT FOR THE ONE INSTANCE.500 NATIONAL GUARD ARE ON THE STREETS.AND A TOTAL OF 5,000 WILL BE IN BALTIMORE SHORTLY.AND THE 10PM-5AM CURFEW STARTS TONIGHT FOR THE 17 YEARS OLD AND YOUNGER CROWD OR JUVENILE DELINQUINTS.IF THEY DONE DAMAGE TO BALTIMORE LAST NIGHT.HOPEFULLY IT STAYS PEACEFUL.BECAUSE THESE LAWLESS CRIMINALS ROBED PEOPLE OF JOBS AND BUSINESSES AND PROPERTY.AND I HOPE THE SAME COME UPON THESE CRIMINALS.10,000 officers and troops are ready to keep baltimore in control i just read on tv.
UPDATE APR 28,2015-11:52AM
OBAMA AND THE WHITEHOUSE OVIOUSLY DO NOT MIND THAT BALTIMORE IS BURNING AND IN CHAOS.AS OBAMA HAS NOT EVEN CAME ON THE AIR TO TRY TO CALM THINGS DOWN. ANOTHER IGNORE BY OBAMA.SO HIS BLACK BRETHERN CAN DESTROY AT WILL WITH OBAMAS LOVE.THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMBLE THAT OBAMA DOES NOT CARE WHAT HAPPENS IN AMERICA.JUST AS LONG AS IT DOES NOT INVOLVE HIS NARCICIST LOVE FOR ISLAM OR HIS BLACK-ARAB BRETHEREN. BALTIMORE HAS CANCELLED FOR A SECOND STRAIGHT NIGHT.THE BASEBALL GAME.I LIKE WHAT THE FATHER OF GRAY SAID.QUIT RIOTING-LOOTING-BURNING. WE DO NOT WANT THAT.WE JUST WANT JUSTICE.AND OVIOUSLY THESE RIOTS ARE NOT JUSTICE.SO THE ONLY ONE IT LOOKS LIKE THAT WANT JUSTICE IS JUST US FAMILY MEMBERS.SINCE THESE LAWLESS CRIMINALS OVIOUSLY JUST WANT JUST US TO DESTROY THE CITY OF BALTIMORE.THE RIOT POLICE IN BALTIMORE ARE FINALLY ENFORCING THE LAW.AND NOT LETTING PEOPLE COME ON CERTAIN STREETS NOW.AND THE PROTESTERS OR CRIMINALS ARE HOPIN MAD.AND WITH ALL THE SCHOOLS OUT TODAY.THIS COULD NOW GET UGLY AS THE RIOT SQUAD OF POLICE TODAY ARE PROTECTING THEMSELVES AND PROPERTY.AND REFUSE TO LET THE LAWLESS LUNATICS HAVE THEIR WAY TODAY IN CRIME.THE PEOPLE ARE NOW BLAMING THE POLICE AND ARE MAD AT THEM. THERES ABOUT 200 GATHERED ON A CERTAIN STREET.BUT THE RIOT POLICE ARE NOT LETTING THEM HAVE THEIR LAWLESS WAYS.THANK GOD FOR THAT.
UPDATE APR 28,2015-10:45AM
15 BUILDINGS WERE BURNED DOWN-1,500 BUILDINGS LOOTED OR DAMAGED BY THE GOON LAWLESS CRIMINALS.124 VEHICLES BURNED OR DESTROYED.AND JUST 20 MINUTES AGO THE LOOTING CONTINUED-A FOX NEWS HOST SHOWED.SO THE DAMAGE AND STEALING IS NOT STOPPED YET TODAY.LIKE THE OTHER MEDIA HAS CLAIMED.NOW BLACKS IN BALTIMORE DOES THIS KIND OF DAMAGES USE CAUSED TO YOUR OWN CITIZENS PROPERTY.MAKE UP FOR YOUR REVENGE ON WHITE POLICE OFFICERS.IS MY QUESTION.NO-USE THOUGHT USE COULD TAKE LAWLESS CTIMINAL ACTIVITY INTO YOUR OWN HANDS.
I WONDER HOW EVERY PERSON WHO BURNED-ROBED-LOOTED-DESTROYED. WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THEIR HOUSES BURNED-LOOTED AND DESTROYED.AND THEIR VEHICLES BY OTHER PEOPLE BURNT AND DESTROYED.I JUST WONDER WILL THESE HEARTLESS-LAWLESS CRIMINALS EVER COME TO THEIR SENSES.I PRAY FATHER THAT EVERY ONE THAT LOOTED-BURNED-DESTROYED ANYTHING LAST NIGHT IN BALTIMORE.WILL BE FORCED BY THEIR UNLAWFUL LUSTS TO ATTEMPT MORE CRIMES.AND BE CAUGHT IN THE ACT.AND INSTANTLY ARRESTED. AND I PRAY THIS FATHER IN JESUS PRECIOUS NAME.AMEN AND AMEN.AT LEAST THEIR WERE 200 OF THE LAWLESS LOSERS ARRESTED LAST NIGHT.AND IN ONE CASE LAST NIGHT.A CRIMINAL WITH A CAR-RUSHED AT POLICE-THEN JUST STOPPED A FEW FEET FROM DRIVING INTO THE POLICE OFFICERS.THEN THIS LOSER TURNED AROUND AND DROVE THE VEHICLE AWAY. AND NOT ONE OFFICER FIRED A SHOT AT THE CAR WHILE IT WAS SPEEDING AT THEM.THESE POLICEMEN SURE HAD PATIENCE WITH THESE LAWLESS CRIMINALS. WE WILL SEE WHAT TODAY BRINGS IN BALTIMORE.THERES SUPPOSE TO BE 5,000 MORE OFFICERS IN TOWN TODAY.AS WELL AS THE NATIONAL GUARD. SEE IF THIS WILL CONTROL THESE LAWLESS CRIMINAL LOOTERS AND RIOTERS TODAY.THIS IS THE WORST RIOTS SINCE THE SIXTYS IN BALTIMORE.AND ALSO FATHER I PRAY THAT ALL THE GANG MEMBERS OF THE CRIPTS-BLOODS AND BLACK GUERILLAS. WIL BE ROUNDED UP AND ARRESTED SO NO POLICE WILL BE KILLED OR INJURED. AND I PRAY THIS IN JESUS NAME-AMEN AND AMEN.SO NOW IT WILL TAKE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND YEARS OF BUILDING.JUST SO A BUNCH OF LAWLESS CRIMINAL LOSER-ROBBERS COULD FULFILL THE LUSTS OF THE FLESH.AND GREED AND VIOLENCE SPIRIT OF HELL FROM SATAN.YES CRIMINALS- USE DONE SATANS WILL TO KILL-STEAL AND DESTROY.I HOPE USE ARE HAPPY NOW.WHEN THE SAME COMES BACK ON YOUR HEADS.USE CAN GIVE ACCOUNT TO JESUS OF ALL YOUR EVIL-LAWLESS-DEEDS.SE HOW JESUS LOVED YOUR FRUITS FROM HELL.REPENT NOW.AND ASK GOD TO FORGIVE YOU.FOR DAMAGING HIS AND INNOCENT PEOPLES PROPERTY.REMEMBER CRIMINALS.GOD OWNES EVERY THING ON EARTH. NOT US.SO USE DESTROYED GODS PROPERTY AS WELL AS INNOCENT CITIZENS.GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED.
UPDATE APR 28,2015-05:03AM
RIOTERS-CRIMINAL GOONS BURN AND LOOT BALTIMOR
E ON BURRIAL DAY OF FREDDIE GRAY.
Baltimore cleans up, mayor scrambles after riot over police-custody death-Reuters By Ian Simpson and Warren Strobel-APR 28,15-YAHOONEWS
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Baltimore residents on Tuesday began to clear the wreckage of rioting and fires that erupted after the funeral of a 25-year-old black man who died in police custody, while the city's mayor defended local law enforcement's light initial response.Acrid smoke hung over streets where violence broke out just blocks from Freddie Gray's funeral and spread through much of the poor West Baltimore neighborhood. Nineteen buildings and 144 vehicles were set on fire, and 202 people were arrested, according to the mayor's office.Police said 15 officers were injured, six seriously, in Monday's unrest, which spread throughout the city as police initially looked on but did not interfere as rioters torched vehicles and later businesses.Looters had ransacked stores, pharmacies and a shopping mall and clashed with police in riot gear in the most violent unrest in the United States since Ferguson, Missouri, was torn by gunshots and arson in late 2014.Gray's death gave new energy to the public outcry that flared last year after police killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, New York City and elsewhere."It's a very delicate balancing act, when we have to make sure that we're managing but not increasing and escalating the problem," Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake told reporters on Tuesday.Police in Ferguson came under intense criticism last year for quickly adopting a militarized posture, using armored vehicles, showing heavy weapons and deploying tear gas in a forceful response that some said escalated tensions in the St. Louis suburb.New York's police department took a more flexible approach in protests later in the year, monitoring marches that crisscrossed the city but largely averting the kind of violence seen in Ferguson and Baltimore.For nearly a week after Gray died from a spinal injury on April 19, protests in Baltimore had been peaceful.
'HERE TO HELP OUT, MAN'
On Tuesday, volunteers in Baltimore swept up charred debris in front of a CVS pharmacy as dozens of police officers in riot gear stood by and firefighters worked to damp down the embers."I'm just here to help out, man," said Shaun Boyd, 30, as he swept up broken glass. "It's the city I'm from."National Guard troops on Tuesday began to stage around the city, including in front of the police station where officers were bringing Gray at the time he was injured.Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, a Republican, declared a state of emergency on Monday and Rawlings-Blake, a Democrat, imposed a one-week curfew in the largely black city starting Tuesday night, with exceptions for work and medical emergencies.Baltimore-based fund manager T. Rowe Price Group Inc said it would close its downtown office on Tuesday. Legg Mason, also headquartered downtown, said its office would be open, but it was encouraging employees to work from home.Schools were closed on Tuesday in the city of 620,000 people, 40 miles (64 km) from the nation's capital.A day after rioters hit a mall in West Baltimore, the Security Square Mall outside the city closed after reports that protesters could be targeting it."When you see the destruction you've also got to realize there's pain, there's pain behind a lot of this," said U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings, a Democrat who represents the region hit by the rioting.The mayor, he said, should "assure us that the police department be looked at from top to bottom, everything from parking tickets straight up to indictments for murder."
CAUGHT OFF-GUARD
Gray was arrested on April 12 while running from officers. He was transported to the police station in a van, with no seat restraint and suffered the spinal injury that led to his death a week later. A lawyer for Gray's family says his spine was 80 percent severed at the neck while in custody.Six officers have been suspended, and the U.S. Justice Department is investigating possible civil rights violations.Much of Monday's rioting occurred in a neighborhood where more than a third of families live in poverty. Parts of it had not been rebuilt since the 1968 rioting that swept across the United States after the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.Deadly confrontations between mostly white U.S. police and black men, and the subsequent unrest, will be among the challenges facing U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who was sworn in on Monday and condemned the "senseless acts of violence."In 1992, more than 50 people in Los Angeles were killed in violence set off by the acquittal of four police officers who beat black motorist Rodney King. Dozens died in 1968 riots.Rashid Khan, 49, and his neighbors were cleaning up his King's Grocery Mart on Tuesday after looters caused what he estimated at $20,000 to $30,000 in damage.Khan said he believed people from outside the neighborhood had caused the damage."Neighborhood protect me," Khan said. (Additional reporting by Jim Bourg; Writing by Scott Malone and Curtis Skinner; Editing by W Simon, Alden Bentley and Lisa Von Ahn)
IRAN FIRES ON AND ESCORTS CARGO SHIP.
Iranian news agency says Iran seizes U.S. vessel-Reuters-APR 28,15-YAHOONEWS
The semi-official Iranian news agency Fars reported on Tuesday that Iran has taken control of a U.S. ship and its 34 crew for "trespassing" on its territorial waters.It did not cite any sources. It added without elaborating that there had been no official confirmation of the seizure.
Baltimore erupts in riots after funeral of black man who died in police custody-Reuters By Ian Simpson--apr 28,15-yahoonews
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Baltimore erupted in violence on Monday as hundreds of rioters looted stores, burned buildings and at least 15 police officers were injured following the funeral of a 25-year-old black man who died after suffering a spinal injury in police custody.The riots broke out blocks from where the funeral of Freddie Gray took place and spread through much of west Baltimore.It was the most violent protest against police treatment of African Americans since arson and gunfire in Ferguson, Missouri, last year.A state of emergency was declared by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, a Republican, who sent in the National Guard, and a curfew was imposed in the majority black city from Tuesday night, with exceptions for work and medical emergencies.Firefighters battled numerous blazes through Monday night, including one that consumed a church's senior center under construction in East Baltimore. Police said looting, fires and attacks against officers continued overnight.Looters sacked liquor stores, pharmacies, a shopping mall and a check-cashing store. Rioters smashed car windows outside a major hotel and twice slashed a fire hose while firefighters fought a blaze at a CVS pharmacy that had been looted before it was set on fire."All this had to happen, people getting tired of the police killing the young black guys for no reason. ... It is a sad day but it had to happen," said Tony Luster, 40, who was out on the street watching the police line.Gray was arrested on April 12 when running from officers. He was transported to the police station in a van, with no seat restraint, and suffered the spinal injury that led to his death a week later. A lawyer for Gray's family says his spine was 80 percent severed at the neck while in custody.Six officers have been suspended, and the U.S. Justice Department is investigating the incident for possible civil rights violations.Gray's death reignited a public outcry over police treatment of African Americans that flared last year after police killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, New York City and elsewhere.But after several days of peaceful protests, events turned violent on Monday. Democratic Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called the looters "thugs" and said they had nothing to do with protests.Police made at least 27 arrests and Baltimore schools will be shut Tuesday. An Orioles baseball game was canceled and businesses and train stations shut down in the city of 620,000 people 40 miles (64 km) from the nation's capital.
BALTIMORE A TROUBLED CITY
Much of the rioting occurred in a neighborhood where more than a third of families live in poverty. The violence appeared to catch city officials somewhat off-guard after a week of peaceful protests.After Missouri was criticized for a heavy-handed response to protests over the police killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in August, cities have carefully tread a line between allowing peaceful demonstrations over police brutality and preventing violence.Answering criticism of not responding quickly enough to Monday's events, Mayor Rawlings-Blake told CNN: "This was an incident that sparked this afternoon ... I think it would have been inappropriate to bring in the National Guard when we had it under control."Gray's family pleaded for peaceful demonstrations and after the looting started, pastors and community leaders took to the streets to try to prevent violent clashes between black youth and police.Looters were nonchalant and showed their faces."We went in there and tore it up," said a 16-year-old who said he was one of the looters inside the CVS.Just down the street from the smoldering CVS, business owner Daisy Bush, 61, said: "The sad part about it is that a lot of people from the community were up there in the CVS, stealing stuff out of it. It's a disgrace."Earlier in the day youths threw rocks and bricks at police. Six officers were injured seriously, Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts told reporters."This is not protesting. This is not your first amendment rights. This is just criminal acts doing damage to a community," he said.Baltimore has long struggled with high crime and gangs, a reputation that has made it the setting for gritty television police dramas such as "The Wire."At Gray's funeral, speaker after speaker before the crowd packing the 2,500-seat New Shiloh Baptist Church said the world was watching to see if justice would be done for Gray.A string of deadly confrontations between mostly white police and black men, and the violence it has prompted, will be among the challenges facing U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who was sworn in on Monday.Lynch condemned the "senseless acts of violence" and signaled that improving relations between the police and the communities they protect will be high on her agenda.Riots over race issues and police brutality have gripped U.S. cities in the past.In the 1992 Los Angeles riots, more than 50 people were killed in violence set off by the acquittal of four police officers who beat black motorist Rodney King. In 1968, dozens died in riots, including several in Baltimore, after the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.(Additional reporting by Scott Malone in Boston, Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles and Richard Cowan in Washington; Writing by Fiona Ortiz and Curtis Skinner; Editing by Lisa Shumaker, Michael Perry and Jeremy Gaunt)
OTHER BALTIMORE LOOTING-BURNING
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/04/baltimore-lunatic-rioting-students.html
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,(sex while married) nor effeminate,(HARDENED SODOMITES) nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards,(ALCOHOLICS) nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
JEREMIAH 17:9
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
UPDATE APR 28,2015-05:15PM
THERES LOTS OF PEOPLE ON THE STREETS IN BALTIMORE NOW.THEY SAID-SOME NUTCASE CRIMINAL THUG TRIED TO SET FIRE TODAY AGAIN TO CVS-PHARMACY. THESE NUTCASES WILL NOT STOP TRYING TO BURN CVS TO THE GROUND.THIS GOON SHOULD BE SHOT IN THE LEGS AND CRIPPLED ON THE SPOT.THEN TAKEN TO A FEMA CAMP FOR RE-EDUCATION QUICK.THIS SICKOS A REAL LOONEY.TO TRY TO BURN A BURNT OUT PLACE DOWN AGAIN.THIS HAPPENED A LITTLE EARLIER. ITS NOW 5:15PM.WITH ALL THIS VIOLENCE IN BALTIMORE.IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME IF A GIGANTIC STORM-EARTHQUAKE OR TORNADO WOULD KILL 40 OR 50 PEOPLE IN BALTIMORE.GOD SAYS BECAUSE OF VIOLENCE-HE WILL DESTROY THE PEOPLE WITH THE EARTH.OR STORMS-EARTHQUAKES OR TORNADOES.OR OTHER WAYS BY THE EARTH.ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASES.OR POISON WATER. GOD CAN DESTROY WITH THE EARTH IN VARIOUS WAYS TO STOP THE VIOLENCE. SOME DISASTER LIKE THAT COULD MAYBE WAKE UP THE THUG-CRIMINALS AND LAWLESS- VIOLENT CRIMINALS.ITS BEEN PEACEFUL SO FAR.BUT DARKNESS IS IN 4 HOURS.THATS WHEN THE SLIM BAG-THUG-MOBSTERS COME OUT TO PLAY DEATH WISHES.AGAINST POLICE AND INNOCENT CITIZENS BUSINESSES AND PROPERTY. TOM FUENTES AGREES WITH ME.THE AGE OF THE CRIMINALS MEANS NOTHING.IF THERE 15 OR 50.IF THEY DO THE DESTRUCTION.THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN ARRESTED. THE MAYOR OF BALTIMORE-STEPHANIE SAID BECAUSE OF THE MOBSTER-THUGS AGES LAST NIGHT.THATS WHY THEY NEVER LET THE POLICE ARREST THE KIDS.AND LET THEM BURN-LOOT-ARSON.MEANWHILE ONLY 34 OF THE 235 WERE KIDS ARRESTED.SO THATS A LAME-BRAIN EXCUSE BY THE MAYOR TO LET THE THUG MOBSTERS.BURY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN DAMAGES TO PROPERTY.
UPDATE APR 28,2015-03:15PM
AT 2:15PM-ONE LUNATIC CRIMINAL THREW SOMETHING AT POLICE.AND INSTAN TLY 5 OR 6 OFFICERS CAME IN THE CROWD AND ARRESTED THAT CRIMINAL. AND PEPPER SPRAYED ANYONE WHO TRYED TO STOP THE OFFICERS FROM GETTING THE CRIMINAL OUTTA THERE.NOW THE OFFICERS ARE TAKING QUICK ACTION AGAINST THESE LUNATICS.THIS DEFINATELY WILL NOT BE LIKE LAST NIGHT. PRAISE GOD FOR THAT.AND TODAY EVEN THE PEACEFUL PROTESTERS ARE BLOCK ING THE CRIMINAL-MOBSTERS FROM THROWING BOTTLES AND STUFF AT POLICE. AND THEY STAND IN FRONT OF THE CRIMINALS.TO STOP THEM.THERES 1,000 OFFICERS AND NATIONAL GUARD IN BALTIMORE NOW.AND THE PROTESTERS ARE STILL PEACEFUL.AND PEOPLE WERE CLEANING UP THE MESS THAT THE CRIMIN ALS MADE IN BALTIMORE LAST NIGHT.ITS ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT OF MEMBERS OF THE LUNATIC CRIMINALS THAT CAUSES ALL THE LAWLESS ACTIVITY. AND FINALLY SOME BIG WIGS IN THE BALTIMORE GOVERNMENT ARE FINALLY ADMITTING ITS THEIR MISTAKE FOR NOT GETTING THE RIGHT EDUCATION AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE KIDS.THAT HAVE DROVE THEM TO VIOLENCE INSTEAD.I TOTALLY DISAGREE.ITS THE PERSON THAT CHOOSES WHAT HE OR SHE DOES.THEY CHOOSE TO DO THE CRIME.THEY THEN HAVE TO DO THE TIME.
UPDATE APR 28,2015-01:52PM
FROM 12:45PM TILL ONE PM.OBAMA HAD A PRESS CONFERENCE WITH JAPANS ABE.AND NEAR THE END OF THE QUESTION PERIOD.OBAMA FINALLY MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT BALTIMORE.HE SAID SORRY FOR THE LOSS OF GRAY.HE SAID ONLY 5 CRIMINALS DONE ALL THE DAMAGE OR A HAND FULL OF CRIMINALS.HE PUT IT.HE THEN BLAMED THE MEDIA FOR ALWAYS SHOWING THE BURNING BAPTIST SENIORS HOME.THEN HE SAYS THIS HAS BEEN COMING FOR A LONG TIME.HE THEN BLAMED ALL THE POLICE FOR THESE DESTRUCTIVE ACTS BY THE LUNATIC-LAWLESS-CRIMINALS.AND HE THEN SAID LIKE A TIPICAL ARAB- MUSLIM. ITS BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMY-THE EDUCATION SYSTEM.THAT THE BLACKS ARE THROWN ASIDE.AND THIS MUST CHANGE.SO THE BLACKS AND AMERICA CAN COME TO GRIPS WITH THIS BLACK RACISM.BUT THE ONE THING OUR ARAB-SUNNI MUSLIM-PARTIAL BLACK OBAMA FAILED TO MENTION.WHO DEALS THE DRUGS-GETS INVOLVED IN MOBSTER-GANG ACTIVITY. AND THINK THEY CAN LOOT-BURN-RIOT-KILL-STEAL.LIKE THEIR GODS.AND GET AWAY WITH IT.JUST BECAUSE THEIR BLACK.AND CAN USE THE RACE CARD AS AN EXCUSE FOR THESE VIOLENT AND CRIMINAL-LAWLESS ACTIVITIES.AND GET AWAY WITH IT.IS MY QUESTION.OK OBAMA-SO WHO NEEDS THE REFORMS AND MIND CHANGES. SURE NOT THE WHITE POLICE OFFICERS.WHO ARE UPHOLDING THE LAW.WHILE THE BLACKS THINKS THEY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT.AND GET AWAY WITH IT.235 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED SINCE LAST NIGHT.INCLUDING 34 JUVINILES AND 201 TEENS AND ADULTS.19 BUILDINGS WERE BURNED DOWN.144 CARS BURNED UP.AND 1,500 PLACES WERE EITHER LOOTED OR DAMAGED BY THE LAWLESS THUG-MOBSTER CRIMINALS LAST NIGHT.THERES ABOUT 200-300 PROTESTERS ON THE STREET AS OF NOW.AND IT HAS BEEN PEACEFUL SO FAR. EXCEPT FOR THE ONE INSTANCE.500 NATIONAL GUARD ARE ON THE STREETS.AND A TOTAL OF 5,000 WILL BE IN BALTIMORE SHORTLY.AND THE 10PM-5AM CURFEW STARTS TONIGHT FOR THE 17 YEARS OLD AND YOUNGER CROWD OR JUVENILE DELINQUINTS.IF THEY DONE DAMAGE TO BALTIMORE LAST NIGHT.HOPEFULLY IT STAYS PEACEFUL.BECAUSE THESE LAWLESS CRIMINALS ROBED PEOPLE OF JOBS AND BUSINESSES AND PROPERTY.AND I HOPE THE SAME COME UPON THESE CRIMINALS.10,000 officers and troops are ready to keep baltimore in control i just read on tv.
UPDATE APR 28,2015-11:52AM
OBAMA AND THE WHITEHOUSE OVIOUSLY DO NOT MIND THAT BALTIMORE IS BURNING AND IN CHAOS.AS OBAMA HAS NOT EVEN CAME ON THE AIR TO TRY TO CALM THINGS DOWN. ANOTHER IGNORE BY OBAMA.SO HIS BLACK BRETHERN CAN DESTROY AT WILL WITH OBAMAS LOVE.THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMBLE THAT OBAMA DOES NOT CARE WHAT HAPPENS IN AMERICA.JUST AS LONG AS IT DOES NOT INVOLVE HIS NARCICIST LOVE FOR ISLAM OR HIS BLACK-ARAB BRETHEREN. BALTIMORE HAS CANCELLED FOR A SECOND STRAIGHT NIGHT.THE BASEBALL GAME.I LIKE WHAT THE FATHER OF GRAY SAID.QUIT RIOTING-LOOTING-BURNING. WE DO NOT WANT THAT.WE JUST WANT JUSTICE.AND OVIOUSLY THESE RIOTS ARE NOT JUSTICE.SO THE ONLY ONE IT LOOKS LIKE THAT WANT JUSTICE IS JUST US FAMILY MEMBERS.SINCE THESE LAWLESS CRIMINALS OVIOUSLY JUST WANT JUST US TO DESTROY THE CITY OF BALTIMORE.THE RIOT POLICE IN BALTIMORE ARE FINALLY ENFORCING THE LAW.AND NOT LETTING PEOPLE COME ON CERTAIN STREETS NOW.AND THE PROTESTERS OR CRIMINALS ARE HOPIN MAD.AND WITH ALL THE SCHOOLS OUT TODAY.THIS COULD NOW GET UGLY AS THE RIOT SQUAD OF POLICE TODAY ARE PROTECTING THEMSELVES AND PROPERTY.AND REFUSE TO LET THE LAWLESS LUNATICS HAVE THEIR WAY TODAY IN CRIME.THE PEOPLE ARE NOW BLAMING THE POLICE AND ARE MAD AT THEM. THERES ABOUT 200 GATHERED ON A CERTAIN STREET.BUT THE RIOT POLICE ARE NOT LETTING THEM HAVE THEIR LAWLESS WAYS.THANK GOD FOR THAT.
UPDATE APR 28,2015-10:45AM
15 BUILDINGS WERE BURNED DOWN-1,500 BUILDINGS LOOTED OR DAMAGED BY THE GOON LAWLESS CRIMINALS.124 VEHICLES BURNED OR DESTROYED.AND JUST 20 MINUTES AGO THE LOOTING CONTINUED-A FOX NEWS HOST SHOWED.SO THE DAMAGE AND STEALING IS NOT STOPPED YET TODAY.LIKE THE OTHER MEDIA HAS CLAIMED.NOW BLACKS IN BALTIMORE DOES THIS KIND OF DAMAGES USE CAUSED TO YOUR OWN CITIZENS PROPERTY.MAKE UP FOR YOUR REVENGE ON WHITE POLICE OFFICERS.IS MY QUESTION.NO-USE THOUGHT USE COULD TAKE LAWLESS CTIMINAL ACTIVITY INTO YOUR OWN HANDS.
I WONDER HOW EVERY PERSON WHO BURNED-ROBED-LOOTED-DESTROYED. WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THEIR HOUSES BURNED-LOOTED AND DESTROYED.AND THEIR VEHICLES BY OTHER PEOPLE BURNT AND DESTROYED.I JUST WONDER WILL THESE HEARTLESS-LAWLESS CRIMINALS EVER COME TO THEIR SENSES.I PRAY FATHER THAT EVERY ONE THAT LOOTED-BURNED-DESTROYED ANYTHING LAST NIGHT IN BALTIMORE.WILL BE FORCED BY THEIR UNLAWFUL LUSTS TO ATTEMPT MORE CRIMES.AND BE CAUGHT IN THE ACT.AND INSTANTLY ARRESTED. AND I PRAY THIS FATHER IN JESUS PRECIOUS NAME.AMEN AND AMEN.AT LEAST THEIR WERE 200 OF THE LAWLESS LOSERS ARRESTED LAST NIGHT.AND IN ONE CASE LAST NIGHT.A CRIMINAL WITH A CAR-RUSHED AT POLICE-THEN JUST STOPPED A FEW FEET FROM DRIVING INTO THE POLICE OFFICERS.THEN THIS LOSER TURNED AROUND AND DROVE THE VEHICLE AWAY. AND NOT ONE OFFICER FIRED A SHOT AT THE CAR WHILE IT WAS SPEEDING AT THEM.THESE POLICEMEN SURE HAD PATIENCE WITH THESE LAWLESS CRIMINALS. WE WILL SEE WHAT TODAY BRINGS IN BALTIMORE.THERES SUPPOSE TO BE 5,000 MORE OFFICERS IN TOWN TODAY.AS WELL AS THE NATIONAL GUARD. SEE IF THIS WILL CONTROL THESE LAWLESS CRIMINAL LOOTERS AND RIOTERS TODAY.THIS IS THE WORST RIOTS SINCE THE SIXTYS IN BALTIMORE.AND ALSO FATHER I PRAY THAT ALL THE GANG MEMBERS OF THE CRIPTS-BLOODS AND BLACK GUERILLAS. WIL BE ROUNDED UP AND ARRESTED SO NO POLICE WILL BE KILLED OR INJURED. AND I PRAY THIS IN JESUS NAME-AMEN AND AMEN.SO NOW IT WILL TAKE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND YEARS OF BUILDING.JUST SO A BUNCH OF LAWLESS CRIMINAL LOSER-ROBBERS COULD FULFILL THE LUSTS OF THE FLESH.AND GREED AND VIOLENCE SPIRIT OF HELL FROM SATAN.YES CRIMINALS- USE DONE SATANS WILL TO KILL-STEAL AND DESTROY.I HOPE USE ARE HAPPY NOW.WHEN THE SAME COMES BACK ON YOUR HEADS.USE CAN GIVE ACCOUNT TO JESUS OF ALL YOUR EVIL-LAWLESS-DEEDS.SE HOW JESUS LOVED YOUR FRUITS FROM HELL.REPENT NOW.AND ASK GOD TO FORGIVE YOU.FOR DAMAGING HIS AND INNOCENT PEOPLES PROPERTY.REMEMBER CRIMINALS.GOD OWNES EVERY THING ON EARTH. NOT US.SO USE DESTROYED GODS PROPERTY AS WELL AS INNOCENT CITIZENS.GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED.
UPDATE APR 28,2015-05:03AM
RIOTERS-CRIMINAL GOONS BURN AND LOOT BALTIMOR
E ON BURRIAL DAY OF FREDDIE GRAY.
Baltimore cleans up, mayor scrambles after riot over police-custody death-Reuters By Ian Simpson and Warren Strobel-APR 28,15-YAHOONEWS
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Baltimore residents on Tuesday began to clear the wreckage of rioting and fires that erupted after the funeral of a 25-year-old black man who died in police custody, while the city's mayor defended local law enforcement's light initial response.Acrid smoke hung over streets where violence broke out just blocks from Freddie Gray's funeral and spread through much of the poor West Baltimore neighborhood. Nineteen buildings and 144 vehicles were set on fire, and 202 people were arrested, according to the mayor's office.Police said 15 officers were injured, six seriously, in Monday's unrest, which spread throughout the city as police initially looked on but did not interfere as rioters torched vehicles and later businesses.Looters had ransacked stores, pharmacies and a shopping mall and clashed with police in riot gear in the most violent unrest in the United States since Ferguson, Missouri, was torn by gunshots and arson in late 2014.Gray's death gave new energy to the public outcry that flared last year after police killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, New York City and elsewhere."It's a very delicate balancing act, when we have to make sure that we're managing but not increasing and escalating the problem," Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake told reporters on Tuesday.Police in Ferguson came under intense criticism last year for quickly adopting a militarized posture, using armored vehicles, showing heavy weapons and deploying tear gas in a forceful response that some said escalated tensions in the St. Louis suburb.New York's police department took a more flexible approach in protests later in the year, monitoring marches that crisscrossed the city but largely averting the kind of violence seen in Ferguson and Baltimore.For nearly a week after Gray died from a spinal injury on April 19, protests in Baltimore had been peaceful.
'HERE TO HELP OUT, MAN'
On Tuesday, volunteers in Baltimore swept up charred debris in front of a CVS pharmacy as dozens of police officers in riot gear stood by and firefighters worked to damp down the embers."I'm just here to help out, man," said Shaun Boyd, 30, as he swept up broken glass. "It's the city I'm from."National Guard troops on Tuesday began to stage around the city, including in front of the police station where officers were bringing Gray at the time he was injured.Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, a Republican, declared a state of emergency on Monday and Rawlings-Blake, a Democrat, imposed a one-week curfew in the largely black city starting Tuesday night, with exceptions for work and medical emergencies.Baltimore-based fund manager T. Rowe Price Group Inc said it would close its downtown office on Tuesday. Legg Mason, also headquartered downtown, said its office would be open, but it was encouraging employees to work from home.Schools were closed on Tuesday in the city of 620,000 people, 40 miles (64 km) from the nation's capital.A day after rioters hit a mall in West Baltimore, the Security Square Mall outside the city closed after reports that protesters could be targeting it."When you see the destruction you've also got to realize there's pain, there's pain behind a lot of this," said U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings, a Democrat who represents the region hit by the rioting.The mayor, he said, should "assure us that the police department be looked at from top to bottom, everything from parking tickets straight up to indictments for murder."
CAUGHT OFF-GUARD
Gray was arrested on April 12 while running from officers. He was transported to the police station in a van, with no seat restraint and suffered the spinal injury that led to his death a week later. A lawyer for Gray's family says his spine was 80 percent severed at the neck while in custody.Six officers have been suspended, and the U.S. Justice Department is investigating possible civil rights violations.Much of Monday's rioting occurred in a neighborhood where more than a third of families live in poverty. Parts of it had not been rebuilt since the 1968 rioting that swept across the United States after the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.Deadly confrontations between mostly white U.S. police and black men, and the subsequent unrest, will be among the challenges facing U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who was sworn in on Monday and condemned the "senseless acts of violence."In 1992, more than 50 people in Los Angeles were killed in violence set off by the acquittal of four police officers who beat black motorist Rodney King. Dozens died in 1968 riots.Rashid Khan, 49, and his neighbors were cleaning up his King's Grocery Mart on Tuesday after looters caused what he estimated at $20,000 to $30,000 in damage.Khan said he believed people from outside the neighborhood had caused the damage."Neighborhood protect me," Khan said. (Additional reporting by Jim Bourg; Writing by Scott Malone and Curtis Skinner; Editing by W Simon, Alden Bentley and Lisa Von Ahn)
IRAN FIRES ON AND ESCORTS CARGO SHIP.
Iranian news agency says Iran seizes U.S. vessel-Reuters-APR 28,15-YAHOONEWS
The semi-official Iranian news agency Fars reported on Tuesday that Iran has taken control of a U.S. ship and its 34 crew for "trespassing" on its territorial waters.It did not cite any sources. It added without elaborating that there had been no official confirmation of the seizure.
Baltimore erupts in riots after funeral of black man who died in police custody-Reuters By Ian Simpson--apr 28,15-yahoonews
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Baltimore erupted in violence on Monday as hundreds of rioters looted stores, burned buildings and at least 15 police officers were injured following the funeral of a 25-year-old black man who died after suffering a spinal injury in police custody.The riots broke out blocks from where the funeral of Freddie Gray took place and spread through much of west Baltimore.It was the most violent protest against police treatment of African Americans since arson and gunfire in Ferguson, Missouri, last year.A state of emergency was declared by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, a Republican, who sent in the National Guard, and a curfew was imposed in the majority black city from Tuesday night, with exceptions for work and medical emergencies.Firefighters battled numerous blazes through Monday night, including one that consumed a church's senior center under construction in East Baltimore. Police said looting, fires and attacks against officers continued overnight.Looters sacked liquor stores, pharmacies, a shopping mall and a check-cashing store. Rioters smashed car windows outside a major hotel and twice slashed a fire hose while firefighters fought a blaze at a CVS pharmacy that had been looted before it was set on fire."All this had to happen, people getting tired of the police killing the young black guys for no reason. ... It is a sad day but it had to happen," said Tony Luster, 40, who was out on the street watching the police line.Gray was arrested on April 12 when running from officers. He was transported to the police station in a van, with no seat restraint, and suffered the spinal injury that led to his death a week later. A lawyer for Gray's family says his spine was 80 percent severed at the neck while in custody.Six officers have been suspended, and the U.S. Justice Department is investigating the incident for possible civil rights violations.Gray's death reignited a public outcry over police treatment of African Americans that flared last year after police killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, New York City and elsewhere.But after several days of peaceful protests, events turned violent on Monday. Democratic Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called the looters "thugs" and said they had nothing to do with protests.Police made at least 27 arrests and Baltimore schools will be shut Tuesday. An Orioles baseball game was canceled and businesses and train stations shut down in the city of 620,000 people 40 miles (64 km) from the nation's capital.
BALTIMORE A TROUBLED CITY
Much of the rioting occurred in a neighborhood where more than a third of families live in poverty. The violence appeared to catch city officials somewhat off-guard after a week of peaceful protests.After Missouri was criticized for a heavy-handed response to protests over the police killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in August, cities have carefully tread a line between allowing peaceful demonstrations over police brutality and preventing violence.Answering criticism of not responding quickly enough to Monday's events, Mayor Rawlings-Blake told CNN: "This was an incident that sparked this afternoon ... I think it would have been inappropriate to bring in the National Guard when we had it under control."Gray's family pleaded for peaceful demonstrations and after the looting started, pastors and community leaders took to the streets to try to prevent violent clashes between black youth and police.Looters were nonchalant and showed their faces."We went in there and tore it up," said a 16-year-old who said he was one of the looters inside the CVS.Just down the street from the smoldering CVS, business owner Daisy Bush, 61, said: "The sad part about it is that a lot of people from the community were up there in the CVS, stealing stuff out of it. It's a disgrace."Earlier in the day youths threw rocks and bricks at police. Six officers were injured seriously, Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts told reporters."This is not protesting. This is not your first amendment rights. This is just criminal acts doing damage to a community," he said.Baltimore has long struggled with high crime and gangs, a reputation that has made it the setting for gritty television police dramas such as "The Wire."At Gray's funeral, speaker after speaker before the crowd packing the 2,500-seat New Shiloh Baptist Church said the world was watching to see if justice would be done for Gray.A string of deadly confrontations between mostly white police and black men, and the violence it has prompted, will be among the challenges facing U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who was sworn in on Monday.Lynch condemned the "senseless acts of violence" and signaled that improving relations between the police and the communities they protect will be high on her agenda.Riots over race issues and police brutality have gripped U.S. cities in the past.In the 1992 Los Angeles riots, more than 50 people were killed in violence set off by the acquittal of four police officers who beat black motorist Rodney King. In 1968, dozens died in riots, including several in Baltimore, after the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.(Additional reporting by Scott Malone in Boston, Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles and Richard Cowan in Washington; Writing by Fiona Ortiz and Curtis Skinner; Editing by Lisa Shumaker, Michael Perry and Jeremy Gaunt)
