When you watch the video you realize why the city has refused to publicly release before now, and how dangerous the footage is to the politically correct BGI apologists. 

(Via Baltimore Sun) Newly released surveillance camera footage from the Baltimore riots shows chaos erupting at North and Pennsylvania avenues, where a crowd breaches and loots stores, destroys police vehicles and sets fires while police stay on the fringe of the action..

With the exception of a brief incursion by a SWAT team, the video shows that officers don’t move in for nearly 90 minutes, after the crowd has largely moved on.

The city surveillance camera footage along with police radio transmissions and emails obtained by The Baltimore Sun under a Public Information Act request show how the looting developed April 27 at the intersection that would become a center of demonstrations in the ensuing days.

The materials also offer a fresh view of a moment that has become a flashpoint for police officers critical of their leaders.

The officers say the department held them back from confronting the rioters, allowing more first responders to be injured and more property to be damaged.

City officials say they took a measured approach to a confrontation in which officers were outnumbered.

The rioting erupted hours after the funeral for Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old Baltimore man who died after suffering a severe spinal cord injury in police custody.

More than 380 businesses reported damage and 61 buildings were burned, causing millions of dollars in losses.

The unrest that day began outside Mondawmin Mall, a transportation hub for students getting out of several nearby schools.

April 27 was a Monday — a school day. Officials said they had seen a flier on social media that Mondawmin would be the scene of a “purge” — a reference to a move in which authorities allow a period of unrest. (read more)