According to Mother Jones, this is how the Baltimore riots started:
“When school let out … police were in the area equipped with full riot gear. According to eyewitnesses … the police were stopping busses and forcing … students … to disembark. Cops shut down the local subway stop. They also blockaded roads near the Mondawmin Mall and Frederick Douglass High School, … and essentially corralled young people in the area … they did not allow the after-school crowd to disperse.
“Meghann Harris, a teacher at a nearby school, described on Facebook what happened: ‘Police were forcing busses to stop and unload all their passengers. Then, [Frederick Douglass High School] students, in huge herds, were trying to leave on various busses but couldn’t catch any because they were all shut down. No kids were yet around except about 20, who looked like they were waiting for police to do something. The cops, on the other hand, were in full riot gear, marching toward any small social clique of students…It looked as if there were hundreds of cops.’ The kids were ‘standing around in groups of 3-4,’ Harris said in a Facebook message to Mother Jones. ‘They weren’t doing anything. No rock throwing, nothing … The cops started marching toward groups of kids who were just milling about.’” Numerous other teachers have come forward with similar stories.
Looks like the cops were spoiling for a fight. With children.
Photo: This is what students saw when they got out of school and tried to go home. They weren’t allowed to leave, because the police wanted to fight, and needed someone to fight with. So they blockaded the school buses and corralled the kids inside a sealed-off perimeter. The parents should be real happy with that.