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Baltimore Mayor: Trump Is Disappointment To Our City & The World
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Baltimore Mayor Bernard “Jack” Young (D) responded to Donald Trump’s ugly tweets about his city and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) on Saturday, calling the president a “disappointment to the people of Baltimore” and the world.
“It’s completely unacceptable for the political leader of our country to denigrate a vibrant American City like Baltimore, and to viciously attack U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings a patriot and a hero,” Young said in a statement shared via Twitter.
“Mr. Trump’s rhetoric is hurtful and dangerous to the people he’s sworn to represent,” he continued. “As the Mayor of Baltimore, I won’t stand for anyone, not even the alleged Leader of the Free World, attacking our great City or our representative to Congress.”
“Mr. Trump, you are a disappointment to the people of Baltimore, our country, and to the world,” he concluded.
It’s completely unacceptable for the political leader of our country to denigrate a vibrant American City like Baltimore, and to viciously attack U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings a patriot and a hero. pic.twitter.com/TJdbST6Md9— Mayor Bernard C. Jack Young (@mayorbcyoung) July 27, 2019
And, by the way, if Trump’s concern is for the people of Baltimore, why doesn’t HE do something?
As we all know, there’s always a tweet:
President Obama, you have a big job to do. Go to Baltimore and bring both sides together. With proper leadership, it can be done! Do it.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 28, 2015
Baltimore Sun To Trump: Better To Have A Few Rats Than To Be One
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After Donald Trump criticized the city of Baltimore in an attack on Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), the editorial board of the Baltimore Sun penned a blistering essay taking the Donald to task for his anti-American attack.
In case anyone missed it, the president of the United States had some choice words to describe Maryland’s 7th congressional district on Saturday morning. Here are the key phrases: “no human being would want to live there,” it is a “very dangerous & filthy place,” “Worst in the USA” and, our personal favorite: It is a “rat and rodent-infested mess.”
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It’s not hard to see what’s going on here. The congressman has been a thorn in this president’s side, and Mr. Trump sees attacking African American members of Congress as good politics, as it both warms the cockles of the white supremacists who love him and causes so many of the thoughtful people who don’t to scream. President Trump bad-mouthed Baltimore in order to make a point that the border camps are “clean, efficient & well run,” which, of course, they are not — unless you are fine with all the overcrowding, squalor, cages and deprivation to be found in what the Department of Homeland Security’s own inspector general recently called “a ticking time bomb.”
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Finally, while we would not sink to name-calling in the Trumpian manner — or ruefully point out that he failed to spell the congressman’s name correctly (it’s Cummings, not Cumming) — we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are “good people” among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity.
Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.
News Round-Up: November 14, 2018
Some news items you might have missed:
• You know what gets you over Hump Day? A dog. Or, more dogs. And InstaHunk Dan Tai (above).
• Rapper Yung Miami has said she would ‘beat’ her son if he came out as gay.
• Donald Trump will skip the Kennedy Center Honors for the second year because no one likes him.
• LGBT people made up 6% of voters in the midterm elections and 82% supported Democratic candidates.
• A gay Baltimore fitness trainer was murdered in his own apartment.
• Scotland will be the world’s first country to teach LGBTQ inclusivity and history in all public school nationwide
• Chicago the Musical celebrates 22 years on Broadway today!
I was lucky to be part of the Broadway cast as one of the earliest replacements. The show would end up hiring me 14 times from 1998 to 2013 to get down in ‘all that jazz.’ Thank you, Ann Reinking.
This pic was from my last stage appearance in 2013 at the Hollywood Bowl in Chicago as I turned 50. #TheGiftThatKeepsGiving #BlackSexyClothes
Did The “Relentlessly Gay Yard” Owner Pull Something Here?
You’ll recall back in June, I reported on Baltimore resident Julie Baker, who seemed to have received a nasty note from a neighbor complaining that her front yard was becoming “relentlessly gay.”
The story went around and the next thing you know a crowdfunding campaign was launched to help the woman make her yard even MORE “relentlessly gay” because, rainbows.
Well, now it seems there may have been more to the story. Or less, perhaps. Like, the truth.
From Queerty:
“Your yard is becoming Relentlessly Gay!” the note read. “Myself and others in the neighborhood ask that you Tone It Down. This is a Christian area and there are Children. Keep it up and I will be Forced to call the Police on you! Your kind need to have Respect for GOD.”
She quickly launched a fundraising effort to raise money to buy more rainbow swag for her yard, setting a goal of $5,000, which she exceeded by more than 150 percent in just a few days.
But it didn’t take long for some people to grow suspicious.
Shortly after her campaign went viral, it was observed that Baker’s GoFundMe page and the letter she allegedly received displayed the same improper use of capitalization. The letter incorrectly capitalized words such as “children,” “forced,” and “police.” Meanwhile, Baker’s GoFundMe page incorrectly capitalizes words such as “home” and “relent.” A closer look at her Facebook page found similar capitalization and grammatical errors in rants against right-wing Christians.
After being accused of lying, Baker suspended the campaign and issued a statement saying “the world is filled with hate and fear.” Now, she’s giving back all the money that was donated to her.
“It is with a saddened heart that all donations will be returned,” Baker wrote on the page shortly before deleting it earlier this week. She cited “taxes and an overabundance of resources” as her reasons for doing so.
She continued: “If a time machine were available, it would have all ended at the original requested amount. It was never about the money but being happy in the face of intolerance.”
So, in the end, we don’t really know if the whole escapade was true or not.
However, Baker has now requested that the funds be donated to charity.
A real one.
Baltimore: Charges Filed Against All Six Officers In Freddy Gray Death
In a Friday morning press conference, Maryland Attorney General Marilyn J. Mosby said Freddie Gray’s death in police custody was a homicide. Charges have been filed against all six police officers.
“We have probable cause to file criminal charges,” Mosby said in a press conference Friday.
Mosby also noted that “no crime had been committed by Mr. Gray.”
Charges include second-degree murder, manslaughter, assault, and police misconduct.
Warrants have been issued for their arrests.
While each of these officers are presumed innocent until proven guilty, we have brought the following charges:
- Officer Caesar Goodson is being charged with second-degree depraved heart murder, involuntary manslaughter, second-degree negligent assault, manslaughter by vehicle by means of gross negligence, manslaughter by vehicle by means of criminal negligence, misconduct in office for failure to secure a prisoner, failure to render aid.
- Officer William Porter is being charged with involuntary manslaughter, assault in the second degree, misconduct in office.
- Lieutenant Brian Rice is being charged with involuntary manslaughter, assault in the second degree, misconduct in office, false imprisonment.
- Officer Edward Nero is being charged with assault in the second degree intentional, assault in the second degree negligent, misconduct in office, false imprisonment.
- Officer Garrett Miller is being charged with intentional assault in the second degree, assault in the second degree negligent, misconduct in office, and false imprisonment.
- Sergeant Alicia White is being charged with manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault, misconduct in office.
Check back for more updates.
Baltimore: Why Does It Take A Catastrophe To Hear Our Cry?
Last night, MSNBC Thomas Roberts was on the receiving end himself of questions by a protestor in Baltimore.
After admitting that looting and rioting were not the best ways to represent the community and to seek answers, protester Danielle Williams asked Roberts this:
“My question to you is, when we were out here protesting all last week for six days straight peacefully, there were no news cameras, there were no helicopters, there was no riot gear, and nobody heard us,” Williams said. “So now that we’ve burned down buildings and set businesses on fire and looted buildings, now all of the sudden everybody wants to hear us.”
“Why does it take a catastrophe like this in order for America to hear our cry?” she continued. “I mean, enough is enough. We’ve had too many lives lost at the hands of police officers. Enough is enough.”
Baltimore Mother Slaps Sense Into Her Son After Seeing Him Take Part In Riots
From ABC News: A Baltimore woman took action when she saw her son hanging out with violent demonstrators Monday.
The woman, identified by ABC affiliate WMAR as the boy’s mother, was watching television when she saw her son throwing rocks at police, the station reported.
She went to find him in the crowd and the confrontation turned physical. The woman was caught on camera grabbing the boy and smacking him in the face.
“Are you kidding me?” she’s heard saying. The station did not identify her by name.
5 year sentence given for beating of trans woman in Baltimore
Teonna Monae Brown, 19, was charged with the April 18 Baltimore McDonald’s beating of transgender woman Chrissy Lee Polis, 22, and will now serve the sentence of five years in prison for the crime.
The incident attracted national attention after the video was posted on YouTube by a McDonald’s employee who recorded the incident but did nothing to stop the crime.
You can see the very disturbing video of the attack here. Be warned though – it’s very disturbing.
In the recorded video, the teen, along with another 14-year-old female, is seen beating the transgender woman in the body and head, dragging her across the restaurant after she used the women’s restroom.
“I continue to suffer seizures, bouts of crying, mental anguish and anxiety,” Polis said in a statement. “I fear being alone. I have flashbacks about the attacks. I have twice now been admitted to a crisis center, and I am having extreme mental difficulty.”
Brown’s sentence produced 10 years for each of the charges standing against her, but Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge John Turnbull III suspended five years on both counts, allowing Brown to serve the remaining 5 year sentence concurrently. Brown will also stand on a three-year probation after her release from prison.
The 14-year-old, whose name has not been released, has admitted responsibility to the same charge of hate crime and first degree assault. Her sentence was undisclosed, but she was sent to a juvenile facility for an unknown period of time.
(from LGBTweekly.com)