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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCrips, Bloods Call Truce, Not to Harm Cops But to Protect their Community from Violence & Looting Re
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Baltimore, MD The Crips, Bloods, BGF and other major gangs reportedly called a truce during yesterdays Freddie Gray protests in Baltimore. They did not make threats of violence, they were not indicated as participants in acts of violence or vandalism during the protests.
However, their promise to no longer be divided, was such a threat to the establishment that within 12 hours there were stories on the home page of every mainstream media publication talking about how the gangs were going to join up with the specific intention of killing cops and burning down the city.
Each of the mainstream sources had basically republished a press release that was put out by the Baltimore City Police Department, citing that there was a credible threat that gang members were planning to carry out attacks on police. There was no evidence to back this claim up, but the very fact that rival gangs were calling a truce in the streets was enough to drive the establishment into panic mode.
This should tell you something. The establishment wants people divided, and they fear other armed and organized groups providing their own communities with defense, effectively challenging the states monopoly on violence.
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Baltimore, MD The Crips, Bloods, BGF and other major gangs reportedly called a truce during yesterdays Freddie Gray protests in Baltimore. They did not make threats of violence, they were not indicated as participants in acts of violence or vandalism during the protests.
However, their promise to no longer be divided, was such a threat to the establishment that within 12 hours there were stories on the home page of every mainstream media publication talking about how the gangs were going to join up with the specific intention of killing cops and burning down the city.
Each of the mainstream sources had basically republished a press release that was put out by the Baltimore City Police Department, citing that there was a credible threat that gang members were planning to carry out attacks on police. There was no evidence to back this claim up, but the very fact that rival gangs were calling a truce in the streets was enough to drive the establishment into panic mode.
This should tell you something. The establishment wants people divided, and they fear other armed and organized groups providing their own communities with defense, effectively challenging the states monopoly on violence.
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Crips, Bloods Call Truce, Not to Harm Cops But to Protect their Community from Violence & Looting Re (Original Post)
markpkessinger
Apr 2015
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Lancero
(3,015 posts)1. Sad isn't it?
That the gangs are more willing to call for peace then the police are.
markpkessinger
(8,401 posts)2. Very much so. n/t
virgogal
(10,178 posts)3. Well,I don't know. What do gangs
do when there isn't a riot?
ann---
(1,933 posts)4. If the gangs
can't get the looters and violent protesters to stop, who can?
It's too sad.
Oktober
(1,488 posts)5. If we can trust anyone, we can trust violent criminals...
Fuck em...