Ray Kelly: Baltimore PDs ‘Reluctance to Engage’ Rioters a ‘Mistake’
‘You can’t at 3 o’clock in the afternoon have a store pillaged and set on fire without any police response’
KELLY: “They were reluctant to engage. And I think in retrospect that was a mistake. You do it constitutionally not violating people's right, but you can't stand by, you can't at 3:00 in the afternoon have a store pillaged and set on fire without any police response. That's what you pay your police officers to do, protect the citizens and protect a property. I'm assuming there was no response because of the mayor's direction. And I think that was a mistake.”
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