On Thursday, Roland Martin told viewers nationwide on TV One’s flagship morning program NewsOne Now that he is not buying any of that “absolute BS.”
Washington Post Associate Editor David Swerdlick told Martin that Police Commissioner Batts is “in over his head.”
Swerdlick continued, “He is basically saying that the riots, which the police couldn’t get a handle on, led to a CVS being burned … prescription drugs on the street, drugs changing hand, violence, crime, etc.”
“Whether or not there’s any accuracy with that whatsoever, Chief Batts seems in over his head,” Swerdlick continued. “He (Batts) may be an excellent law enforcement officer, but he does not know how to handle bringing this to the public’s attention, handle taking accountability for the fact that he is chief of police in a city that has seen a spike in violence, and people can’t get a handle on why.”
Later during the deconstruction of Batts’ comments, Martin said, “He looks stupid saying, ‘Hey President Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, I need y’all to send me some money, some help because my MF, slow, trifling police department can’t do the work.’”
Watch Roland Martin and the NewsOne Now panel – featuring former federal prosecutor Glenn Ivey, Danielle Belton, Associate Editor of The Root, Candice Tolliver Burns, Principal with theGROUP Consulting Firm, and David Swerdlick, Washington Post Assistant Editor – discuss Police Commissioner Batts’ comments on the increase in violence in Baltimore in the video clip above.
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