9-12 Meeting
Monday Evening
Time: 7:00 PM
Location:
Freedom Gate Church
104 Tennis Center Dr. | Marietta, OH
Bring 2 people with you!
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Police stand in formation as a curfew approaches, Tuesday, April 28, 2015, in Baltimore, a day after unrest that occurred following Freddie Gray’s funeral. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Phase Two of Obama’s Plan to Federalize the Police Force Just Happened in Baltimore
Susan Calloway Knowles
The Blaze
President Barack Obama’s administration has begun the second phase in federalizing the police. And as predicted, he is again using Baltimore to expand his agenda.
As you may recall, I wrote in May that Obama would use the recent events in Baltimore to convince the American public that federalization of the police force was necessary in order to fix the problems of Baltimore and other cities.
I also said that in order for the administration to succeed in their plan, several “actors” would be required to play their role.
In phase one of federalizing the police, we saw many key players come to the forefront.
Al Sharpton was the first to call upon the president to federalize the police during the rioting in Baltimore. He demanded that the Justice Department “take over policing in this country.”
“We’re going to have to fight states’ rights in terms of closing down police cases,” Sharpton added.
The second, third and fourth actors who helped make phase one possible were the Mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake who requested that the DOJ conduct a full-scale investigation of her city, after City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young and 10 members of the City Council bypassed Rawlings-Blake and sent a letter directly to Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
The stage was set and the script was written. The DOJ and the Obama administration had at last been invited in and assigned the lead role in creating a “stronger, better Baltimore,” according to Lynch.
There was now a clear path to the long sought after federalization agenda.