Things are beginning to look scary in Baltimore

I just think he is being put on a pedestal to justify the destruction and criminal activity.

I live 20 minutes outside of the city-my tax money is going to have to help the state rebuild. I am pissed that the idiots who were rioting and looting did this to the city and more importantly did this to neighborhoods where there is already so much economic difficultly. What will happen to shop owners' insurance rates? Who will want to start a small business in Baltimore or even come down for the tourism? The thugs who vandalized these areas are killing their own communities. On local TV today I saw a business owner who had a family owned business for 35 years talk about how he watched his business and million dollar inventory (they went through his warehouse as well as storefront) get looted for four hours on surveillance footage last night.

The people trying to save their own communities and neighborhoods did not deserve to watch their lives and communities being destroyed by thugs wearing gas masks and cutting fire hoses.

Apples and oranges. What does Mr. Gray's criminal record have to do with his getting murdered in custody? Of course the riots were awful and unnecessary. Your inference that Mr. Gray caused his own death is preposterous.

and who would you have them riot against? So to show you CARE you have to riot? You make no sense. Perhaps you should ask your black friends about the many stop the violence campaigns that happen all over the country in the AA community ... If it's not to embarrassing for them... SMDH

I never said that-I made comment based on what I was thinking. Last I checked on a message board it is full of comments and peoples' thoughts. He had a long and nasty record of dealing drugs and I wondered how many people he helped kill and how many lives he had destroyed. I never said he deserved to die-you are the one connecting those dots, not me.

And rioting does not bring any officers to justice, does it? Does it help change the system? NO
it destroys neighborhoods and communities and has totally overshadowed what the Gray family asked for and what others were marching (peacefully) towards. Local news coverage that had started as focusing on change was swept to the side as the focus shifted to the idiots burning down the city.

It's auto correct nice try at being butt hurt though and yeah you do hate police.

So your advice is to run from police? Smart move. Run if you are innocent. Your rationalizing is just so ridiculous. It's like watching a train wreck--and cannot wait to see what other amazing things come out of you.

No, what is terrible is that Mr Grays death is being used as an excuse for lawlessness by people who couldn't give a flying fig about him. The peaceful protesters have my full support, the rioters are rising because they can and would have found one excuse if it hadn't been this one. Their riots are because they are criminals exploiting a mans death. 

Has as anyone been charged with murder? Were you there, until charges are filed using such inflammatory language doesn't do any justice in bringing people to your POV. Is he dead as a result of their actions, yes, but those charges can end up ranging from involuntary manslaughter to first degree to justified. Although I seriously doubt the last to be the case. 

You do realize that saying the riots are because of the police actions are the same as saying if Mr Gray hadn't committed a crime or ran he wouldn't be dead. Both are ridiculous. 

I love it when I find a new person to put on ignore.  Keep flapping your ignorant gums, honey. I don't have to see your non-linear thoughts and nonsensical rants anymore. Bye!

No she doesn't. You seem overinvested in always being right, no matter how wrong someone else knows you are.

Not ridiculous at all. There would be no protests and no riots if Mr. Gray had not been murdered in police custody. It's not that hard to understand.

Lol. Pot meet kettle, considering you are so determined that you are right and I am wrong as exemplified by the end of your post. The fact is, everything you post, everything I post is simply our opinions based on our experiences. I'm not out to change your mind, nor are you out to change mine. We are both defending our opinions, but regardless of whether I ever agree with you completely or visa versa, this isn't at least to me a matter of who is right and who is wrong. It people coming together to express their own unique opinions, and as the old saying goes, opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and they all stink. 

I can't speak for Kluski, but I do know it's possible to understand that people are angry about police brutality and understand the fact that they're angry is only an excuse that some of those very same people are using to steal things and destroy things.

I'm glad you think I said a lot, although your inference is incorrect.  Do you really think that the people in Baltimore, those who lost their business, their car, have to abide by a curfew, fear for their safety, have schools closed, don't blame the people rioting?  Do you think right now, during the riots, they give a damn about Gray?  
I said nothing about hate.  I said that the anger and blame that was aimed at the police is now aimed at the rioters.  They are the current menace.
On the other hand, in South Carolina where Walter Scott was gunned down on camera and left hand-cuffed to die, there weren't these destructive riots.  The focus remained on Scott where it should be.

And why do people always bring up rioting after major sporting wins?  Deflecting well, they do it sometimes, so why shouldn't we?  I'm not saying those rioting after a sporting event aren't douchebags and thugs, because they are, but they have nothing to do with these particular riots.  And typically people look bad at the drunk college kids who are doing the rioting.  They are expelled from school.  They are arrested.  

And the officer who murdered Mr. Scott was arrested and charged within days because of the video.