Not sure that Iagree with that assesment...
For one, he attributes the "drug war" as an "attempt to hold the poor down". I'm not sure that follows logically from the premise.
Number two he states this...
The drug war began it, certainly, but the stake through the heart of police procedure in Baltimore was [former Mayor and Maryland Governor] Martin O'Malley . He destroyed police work in some real respects. Whatever was left of it when he took over the police department, if there were two bricks together that were the suggestion of an edifice that you could have called meaningful police work, he found a way to pull them apart. Everyone thinks I've got a hard-on for Marty because we battled over The Wire, whether it was bad for the city, whether we'd be filming it in Baltimore. But it's been years, and I mean, that's over. I shook hands with him on the train last year and we buried it. And, hey, if he's the Democratic nominee, I'm going to end up voting for him. It's not personal and I admire some of his other stances on the death penalty and gay rights. But to be honest, what happened under his watch as Baltimore's mayor was that he wanted to be governor. And at a certain point, with the crime rate high and with his promises of a reduced crime rate on the line, he put no faith in real policing.
Despite laying the police 'problems' to be the de facto cause of this week's riots, the idiot says he'd vote for him because he's a democrat. WTF. It reminds me of the idiots that voted for Ed Fitzgerald for governor...a guy who knowing and flagrantly broke the law and thought he was above it. Is it any wonder that we are f*****as a country, when we have the is kind of attitude...that you would actually vote to put someone in public service who can't be trusted to obey the law? SMH.
