By
declaring an official state of emergency in Baltimore, Mayor Stephanie
Rawlings-Blake meant to bolster the Baltimore City Police Department.
But with the National Guard and thousands of law-enforcement officials
from around the mid-Atlantic region on the scene, one of the local cops
says the force feels attention and resources shifting away from them.
Yesterday we saw local restaurants and caterers —from Whole Foods, Five Guys, and Uno Pizzeria & Grill,
among others— deliver food to National Guardsmen stationed downtown by
the shops and upscale hotels that line Inner Harbor, some distance away
from the cleanup efforts and eventual curfew-standoff around North
Avenue and Pennyslvania. A Baltimore City police officer we spoke with
couldn’t speak to whether the National Guard was routinely getting free
meals, but he did knew for a fact that due to a lack of preparation and
organization, local police in the midst of Monday and Tuesday’s riots
definitely weren’t.
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