Gunfire broke out at a northwest Baltimore strip mall, leaving cartridge casings scattered across a parking lot and residents in the Woodmere neighborhood once again dealing with the consequences of a city that has been a one-party Democratic laboratory for decades.
Baltimore Police officers rushed to the 5400 block of Reisterstown Road after gunfire erupted in the area, according to Fox45. Crime scene tape shut down two streets and an alleyway to protect evidence. Detectives from the Northwestern District canvassed the Hilltop Shopping Center parking lot, where several spent cartridge casings littered the ground.
No information on victims or suspects has been released. The report is thin — and that's part of the problem. Baltimore residents get shooting alerts, crime tape, and silence.
This is the same city where politicians who have held unchecked power for generations insist that law-abiding gun owners are the problem. Baltimore has been governed exclusively by Democratic mayors since 1967. The current mayor, Brandon Scott, campaigned on violence reduction. The city's last two mayors left office under ethical clouds — Catherine Pugh went to federal prison over a self-dealing children's book scheme; Stephanie Rawlings-Blake oversaw the chaotic 2015 riots that followed Freddie Gray's death.
The city's progressive prosecutor experiment didn't fare much better. Former State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby made national headlines prosecuting police officers in the Gray case — all six were acquitted or had charges dropped — while violent crime surged on her watch. She was later indicted on federal perjury and mortgage fraud charges.
Meanwhile, the same political class that presided over Baltimore's descent wants to tell the rest of the country how to handle firearms. They want your guns. They want your Second Amendment rights curtailed. And they want it while their own streets look like this.
The CBS News source provided alongside this assignment covered an entirely different incident — a barricaded person in Woodland, California, outside Sacramento — underscoring how routine Baltimore shootings have become: they don't even warrant a second outlet's coverage anymore. A shooting at a strip mall in Charm City is just another day.
Baltimore Police have not yet released information on any suspect or motive in the Woodmere shooting. Fox45 reported it is working to gather additional details.
The question that matters: How many cartridge casings have to hit the pavement before Baltimore's one-party rulers admit their approach has failed — and before they stop pointing fingers at the constitutional rights of Americans who live nowhere near their broken streets?
