Hi, this is Alonzo Bowden, and I want to welcome you to episode 104 of my podcast, Who's Paying

Attention? I am in Edmonton. It's been a beautiful weekend up here in Canada. I love working up here.

And it's been really interesting because I've been able to watch the United States on Canadian news.

I've been watching some CBC. So let's get right into it, shall we?

I got to start with Baltimore and the riots and the aftermath of the riots,

because I haven't, I posted on Facebook, but I haven't done anything in the podcast. And one of the

reasons is, and people are just, they know it. If you check my Facebook, if you've listened to me

at all, you know, I keep saying the same thing.

Nothing changes if nothing changes.

And I describe this as a slow motion riot.

And the reason I call it that is because we saw this coming.

If you watch the news, you saw angry groups of frustrated young people marching through Baltimore and,

you know, next thing you know, the window breaks at a CVS and then the looting starts at a CVS

and the police are just watching. They're not taking any action. And then the CVS starts

burning and then a car starts burning and rocks are thrown at a police car. And so and it,

and it escalated. And we all saw that happen. And it literally happened before our eyes in

slow motion. And nothing was done to stop it.

And I'm not saying the cops should have gone in like Ferguson with, you know, a bunch of

M-Raps and and hummers and, you know, submachine guns and whatever else doing a military

presence.

But I think if the police had shown a stronger presence at the

beginning, when it was just a bunch of kids breaking it into a CVS, it could have been stopped.

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