Baltimore Mayor: ‘I Never Said… That We Are Giving People Space To Destroy Our City’ [Even though that is nearly verbatim what she said.]
CBS DC | April 28, 2015
WASHINGTON — After Baltimore’s first round of rowdy protests on Saturday, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake came under fire for saying that the city gave people “who wished to destroy” space to do so.
“I worked with the police and instructed them to do everything that they could to make sure that the protesters were able to exercise their right to free speech,” Rawlings-Blake said to the media Saturday evening.
“It’s a very delicate balancing act because while we tried to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.”
And so do their minions in government:
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Baltimore Mayor: ‘I Never Said… That We Are Giving People Space To Destroy Our City’
[Even though that is nearly verbatim what she said.]
CBS DC | April 28, 2015
WASHINGTON — After Baltimore’s first round of rowdy protests on Saturday, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake came under fire for saying that the city gave people “who wished to destroy” space to do so.
“I worked with the police and instructed them to do everything that they could to make sure that the protesters were able to exercise their right to free speech,” Rawlings-Blake said to the media Saturday evening.
“It’s a very delicate balancing act because while we tried to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.”
Not to mention Washington telling Home Security to stand down from the South Dakota pipeline protests.