Back in late April of 2015, almost exactly nine years ago, riots erupted in Baltimore, Maryland, over the demise of a career criminal named Freddie Gray, who died while in police custody.
Few people remember his name today, but at the time he was the most recently canonized BLM saint, and the guy whose death everyone was pretending to mourn. The most memorable thing about that moment in history isn’t Freddie Gray himself, or even the riots, but what the then-mayor of the city said the day after, as the media put it, “peaceful protests took a violent turn.” Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake stood in front of news cameras and told the world that she had decided to give “those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.”
By her own testimony, she had instructed law enforcement to stand by and give rioters space to destroy their community. To let off some steam and vent their…
