So if you give rioters space to destroy and to loot your city, causing millions of dollars in damage and over 100 cops injured, you get honored. Here’s another thing, she talks about rioters who ‘threw bricks and rocks at our first responders’. Yes, police are first responders, but this isn’t the first time I’ve seen those on the left use this reference to avoid saying ‘police’. They threw it at police, because they were police.
(CNSNews.com) – Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, criticized for giving people too much space to protest during the recent rioting in her city, has an additional job: On Monday, she was sworn in as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a group that influences national urban policy.
“She’s been elected by her peers,” said USCM CEO and Executive Director Tom Cochran. “It’s one of the highest honors you can have as a mayor. For one year, she’s America’s mayor. It’s a very powerful position.”
As conference president, Rawlings-Blake, a Democrat, will set the organization’s agenda, appoint committee and task force chairs and serve as the national spokesperson for the one-year term that runs through June 2016.
“At a time when women, and African-American women especially, still face many challenges, the honor of being a female president of this organization and the first African-American female president is not lost on me,” Rawlings-Blake said in her inaugural speech.