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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...w&hootPostID=680dc2a490138c164ed296a14183a791

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has fired Police Commissioner Anthony Batts.

Rawlings-Blake announced the firing in a news release Wednesday afternoon. She said Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Davis will become interim commissioner.

Rawlings did not give a reason, but the move comes amid a spike in the city's homicide rate.

 

[Guevara]

Oh, THAT gets him fired?

 

[Guzim]

It's Baltimore, gentlemen. The gods will not save you.

 

[dave is ok]

Who else read Rawlings as Rawls?

Get on with it motherfucker

 

[Blader]

It's Baltimore, gentlemen. The gods will not save you.

And the mayor's name is Rawls!

Kind of.

 

[XGRaViSmOrSX]

Sheeeeeeeee-it!

 

[Paskil]

That's what happens when you try to set up Hamsterdam.

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

Should have kept it under 300

 

[E the Shaggy]

 

[Guzim]

Should have kept it under 300

 

[BobLoblaw]

The Wire references make me smile. That show's gonna live on forever.

 

[Altazor]

get on with it, motherfucker!

 

[DieH@rd]

 

[BaltimoreLarry]

I always assumed Nerese Campbell from the Wire was based on her, but it was actually Sheila Dixon, the previous mayor.

 

[Valhelm]

Save us, Bunny Colvin

 

[temp]

You guys remember Omar?

 

[OctoMan]

Stringer Bell

 

[Hoo-doo]

Yup, that settles it. I need that The Wire Blu-Ray boxset.

This thread turned out even better than I expected.

 

[Dr.Acula]

Blast Hardcheese.

 

[sir_kevith]

Who else read Rawlings as Rawls?

Get on with it motherfucker

His face appeared in my mind as soon as I read Baltimore and "Rawl"

 

[Jin]

Since the rioting stopped, the city has seen a sharp increase in violence, with 155 homicides this year, a 48 percent increase over the same period last year.

Holy shit.

 

[fallengorn]

 

[ahoyhoy]

You can't juke murder.

 

[Frozenprince]

While this was long overdue, shit isn't changing until we end the "war on drugs". It's created and facilitated a police department that can't solve an actual crime for the life of them.

Baltimore has basically become unlivable because of it, same with chucks of Chicago, KC, Miami, etc etc.

I get that this will mostly be a thread about The Wire and everything (and I fucking LOVE that show) but this is a real, gigantic issue that needs to be addressed in this country.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

This thread will be

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THE WIRE PUNS!