INTERVIEW – CARL STOKES – BALTIMORE COUNCILMAN – represents the 12th district on the Baltimore City Council
Baltimore City Councilman: Politicians And Police ‘Allow’ Drugs In Certain Areas [VIDEO] ( Daily Caller) – Baltimore City Councilman Carl Stokes (D), who made national headlines when he equated calling rioters “thugs” with calling them the N-word on CNN, said crimes, including “open-air drug markets,” are “allowed to happen” in certain areas of the city.
Speaking with WMAL radio in Washington, DC, Stokes said “elected officials and law enforcement,” allow open-air drug markets to operate in certain areas of Baltimore.
“We know that many of these communities, which have more than its share of bad activity and bad actors,” Stokes said, “are those who live there, the greater majority of good citizens, the greater majority are our moms, our dads, our grandparents, our retired citizens, Mrs. Jones who’s a widow who retired from the education system, and many kids. We know that the majority of those citizens are good citizens. But, to be frank with you, they’re often, their communities are not policed effectively. In other words, things that happen in those communities would not be allowed to happen in some other middle-income, upper middle-income neighborhoods. Would not be allowed to happen. Open-air drug markets would not be allowed to happen. And yet they are allowed to happen in many of these neighborhoods we’re talking about.”
When asked who was allowing these open-air drug markets to continue to exist, Stokes said, “We draw circles or lines around these communities and we say, ‘On this side of the line you can not have open air drug markets, you can not do…’ but people on this side, people who want drugs, who buy drugs, they’re allowed to come across the boundary and buy the drugs, open-air, on this side of the line.”
