Baltimore RIOT (4/27/2015)

[Malsua]

I'm just seeing the police chief saying they may not enforce the curfew tonight for fear of inciting the crowd.

That's right in line with her "giving them space to destroy"

The fact is if she could get a dozen cops killed, it would suit her agenda and help assuage her perpetual victim status.

[Ryan Ruck]

Word is that about 30 minutes ago it was heard on the scanner feed the curfew is going into effect at 10pm for everyone.

Don't have the scanner going. Trying to catch up on DVR'd TV I missed.

[Ryan Ruck]

Live stream from a Chicago based Occutard: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/samwiseoccupies

[Ryan Ruck]

Quick glance shows a LOT more white guilters/professional agitators in the crowd tonight.

Guess it takes time for them to arrive from around the country.

[Ryan Ruck]

Okay, looks like that stream above IS in Chicago!

[Ryan Ruck]

Baltimore City Breaking News 20 mins · SHOTS FIRED Patapsco Ave. and North Ave. Signal 13. Shots fired at police. Groups moving up St. Margaret. Crowds are throwing bottles and bricks at unshielded officers. BCBN 31/19

[Ryan Ruck]

Word of an apartment building on fire.

[Ryan Ruck]

http://www.11alive.com/videos/news/2014/05/30/5867887/

Lots of people still out and about 4 minutes from curfew.

[Ryan Ruck]

Fox News street level: https://video.foxnews.com/v/25531934...#sp=show-clips

[Ryan Ruck]

Elijah Cummings is out looking to be a man of the people.

[Ryan Ruck]

At 10:15, dispersal order is going to go out and then they're going to go through the crowd per WXIA chopper feed.

[Ryan Ruck]

CS being deployed!

[Ryan Ruck]

Might just be smoke. FNC reporter is in the middle of it and not choking.

[Ryan Ruck]

Looks like they could be using CS now. Seeing more reaction from people in the smoke. No audio on the FNC feed so I don't know.

[Ryan Ruck]

Another feed: http://foxbaltimore.com/news/feature.../#.VUBEWuH0U1X

[Ryan Ruck]

Not much happening right now...

[vector7]

CNN’s Marc Lamont Hill Cheers On Baltimore: “This Is Not a Riot… It’s An Uprising Against Police Terrorism”…

Alternate headline: CNN commentator calls for violence against police officers on live TV.

Via Newsbusters:

During CNN’s live coverage on Monday night of the Baltimore riots, CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill urged viewers to view what was taking place as “not a riot” but “uprisings” in response to African-Americans “dying in the streets for months, years, decades, centuries” due to “police terrorism.” When brought into the discussion by CNN Tonight host Don Lemon, Hill declared that “there shouldn’t be calm tonight” in Baltimore since there’s been “black people…dying in the streets for months, years, decades, centuries” and endorsed the need for “resistance to oppression and when resistance occurs, you can’t circumscribe resistance

[Ryan Ruck]

LOL! Big convoy of uparmored Humvees on chopper feed.

[Ryan Ruck]

Signal 13 on scanner. Someone in a blue Cobalt shot at a cop.

[Ryan Ruck]

This is unconfirmed information being reported.

Did Freddie Gray Have Spinal Surgery (From Car Accident) A Week Before His Arrest?

April 28, 2015

Currently it is being reported the investigation into Freddie Gray’s death will be complete by Friday. However, the same media reports are saying the results will not be made immediately public. This is odd considering the surrounding ideology of Baltimore which would be highly favorable to a finding of wrongdoing by the police.

If the investigation revealed police wrongdoing there is nothing in the Baltimore political apparatus which would keep it hidden from public. Ergo, there’s a possibility any report would contain exculpatory information beneficial to the police.

Which brings us to a potential game changing discovery showing up in some social media about Freddie Gray having spinal surgery shortly before the events outlined within the controversial encounter. It must be noted however, that none of this is factually confirmed and we should research further.

The story is in essence:

“Freddie Gray had a pre-existing spinal and neck injury [from a car accident] and had severe damage and scar tissue from an accident that Allstate insurance was paying via a large structured settlement.

Freddie had several unsuccessful spinal fusion surgeries, and his most recent spinal/cervical operation was a week and a half before he was arrested. Freddie should have been at home in bed resting and recovering from this recent major operation.

If you look on Howard County Civil Court records you will find a case whereby Freddie Gray Jr. was trying to cash in his monthly structured Allstate settlement into a lump sum payout through Peachtree funding”.

Another report from The Fourth Estate essentially encapsulates the same story outlined in alternate (social) media:

[…] EXCLUSIVE: The Fourth Estate has learned that Freddy Gray’s life-ending injuries to his spine may have possibly been the result of spinal and neck surgery that he allegedly received a week before he was arrested, not from rough excessively rough treatment or abuse from police.

The Fourth Estate has contacted sources who allege that Freddy Gray received spinal and neck surgery a week before we was arrested, and was allegedly receiving a large structured settlement from Allstate Insurance. The surgery is allegedly related to a car accident in which Gray was involved (more)

Indeed there is a civil tort case in the Circuit Court for Howard County – Civil System listing Freddie Gray Jr. as party to a civil action structured between Peachtree Settlement Funding LLC and Allstate Life Insurance Company. (link)



CASE # 13C14101574 “Freddie Gray Jr” Howard County:







Whether the actual facts -as laid out beyond the settlement claim- are true is unknown. However, any report claiming the above related to a “car accident” seem sketchy at best. In a previous Baltimore Media article the following was noted:

[…] As children, he and his two sisters were found to have damaging lead levels in their blood, which led to multiple educational, behavioral and medical problems, according to a lawsuit they filed in 2008 against the owner of a Sandtown-Winchester home they rented for four years.

With so much of its housing stock predating laws banning lead in paint, Baltimore continues to wrestle with the after-effects on thousands of children who have inhaled or ingested the toxic metal.

[…] The siblings filed the lawsuit against Stanley Rochkind and several corporations associated with him. (Originally, the suit also targeted the owner of another home where the family lived, but that defendant was ultimately dropped.)

Rochkind is well known for owning hundreds of rentals in the city over the years, many of which have drawn lead paint lawsuits. In 2001, he was fined $90,000 by the Maryland Department of the Environment as part of a consent agreement that required him to rid some 480 rental units in Baltimore of lead paint. (link)

What would appear more likely is the Howard County civil action is some kind of request by Freddie Gray and his Sister for a lump sum payment, or changes in relation to the lead paint lawsuit litigants.

Obviously if Freddie Gray Jr. did FACTUALLY have spinal and neck surgery less than two weeks before his encounter with police resulting in death from a spinal injury – such a revelation would be a game changer.

Perhaps the media will begin to look a little closer at the claim. Perhaps it is an unfounded and unwarranted claim. However, it is very interesting and deserves further inquiry.