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Does Mayor Broome deserve credit for keeping the peace?

Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:08 am
Posted by CapperVin
Member since Apr 2013
10661 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:08 am
Everyone assumed that BR would burn to the ground. Instead there was no violence with only a few arrests with the most violent one being a TD poster walking around with a pistol.

If we are being honest, had violence erupted this board would be filled with anger and everyone would be blaming the Mayor.

I think it's only fair that we give her some credit since peace was upheld on her watch
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
60134 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:09 am to
the rain stopped br from burning to the ground
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
132636 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:10 am to
She didnt do anything

The outside agitators just never really showed up
Posted by goldennugget
NIL Ruined College Sports
Member since Jul 2013
26376 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:10 am to
Sharon Weston Broome didnt do shite

The difference this time vs. all the other riots and such was that there were no paid protestors, and no election coming up for the media to fan the flames of and rile people up

Notice Trayvon Martin, Mike Clown, etc. all of that happened in election years. A lot of this shite is synced up with elections.
Posted by Ed Osteen
Member since Oct 2007
59345 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:11 am to
Only idiots thought Baton Rouge would riot. Anyone paying attention to the last time we had protests could see that the police will shut that shite down with quickness
Posted by Bullfrog
Running Through the Wet Grass
Member since Jul 2010
61798 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:12 am to
Hell no.
The rabble rousers knew what the LEO's response would be like from the last time and decide to stick to the safety of the interwebs .
Posted by Puck82
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2009
23951 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:13 am to
BLM you are out. ANTIFA you are in. Here's your checks. Looks like BLM has lost its funding and it's all funneled to the fascists now.
Posted by LSUJML
Central
Member since May 2008
56848 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:15 am to
Ask this question again when the state declines to bring criminal charges
Posted by Kramer26
St. George, LA
Member since Jan 2005
6526 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:15 am to
They all went to New Orleans
Posted by The Truth 34
Chavez Ravine
Member since May 2010
41843 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:20 am to
quote:

the rain stopped br from burning to the ground



yea, God gets credit for this one.
Posted by Loungefly85
Lafayette
Member since Jul 2016
7930 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:22 am to
I'm sure that racist bitch is mad that there WASN'T more chaos.

She can go right to Hell.
Posted by Martini
Near Athens
Member since Mar 2005
49696 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:24 am to
My daughter and I spent time in Tony's Seafood yesterday with as many whites as blacks and never did I think not to go there. I know my city and its not that bad.
Posted by StrongSafety
Member since Sep 2004
18000 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:26 am to
BLM changed their tactics and finally moved to more policy based initiatives...thank God...


See you in 2018 and 2020.....
Posted by 13
Member since Apr 2006
1455 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:28 am to
I thought about this yesterday, and to answer the op, yes she does. I doubt her and I have very much in common, but I'm glad she didn't make matters worse in this situation. (She easily could have)
I'll likely disagree with plenty of her values, but we should give credit where credit is due. Her staying out of the way of the camera was a choice and it was the right one.

Posted by Paul Allen
Montauk, NY
Member since Nov 2007
78666 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:29 am to
Yes, absolutely.
Posted by lsuhunt555
Teakwood Village Breh
Member since Nov 2008
39043 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:29 am to
I'd like to give her credit, but you can't based solely on her comments made at the Presser the day the DOJ announced no charges.
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
62147 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:33 am to
I'll give her credick.
Posted by Rouge
Floston Paradise
Member since Oct 2004
138845 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:37 am to
quote:

BLM changed their tactics and finally moved to more policy based initiatives...thank God...


These policies....

The six platform demands are:

1. End the war on black people.

2. Reparations for past and continuing harms.

3. Divestment from the institutions that criminalize, cage and harm black people; and investment in the education, health and safety of black people.

4. Economic justice for all and a reconstruction of the economy to ensure our communities have collective ownership, not merely access.

5. Community control of the laws, institutions and policies that most impact us.

6. Independent black political power and black self-determination in all areas of society.

LINK

Link above is from NBC News

In short, BLM wants nothing short of an independent race-ocracy that is funded by the USA
This post was edited on 5/7/17 at 10:42 am
Posted by Elleshoe
Wade’s World
Member since Jun 2004
143780 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:38 am to
quote:

See you in 2018 and 2020...


2020? I'd move on from that. I don't see any way Trump isn't reelected.
Posted by BIWO
Member since Dec 2015
1821 posts
Posted on 5/7/17 at 10:39 am to
I'm curious where the money came from that she paid off the black panthers to not riot.
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