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Development In Inner Cities

Inner city development just took a step back to the sixties.

By Joel Ross | Updated on May 04, 2015

Baltimore is likely only the start of more race riots in cities. After what was clearly a political charging of the cops, there was a series of statements by the prosecutor that she was responding to the rioters when she said –I heard you. She made other statements of clear support for the mobs. Obama and Holder have, from the early incident when Obama called the Boston cop stupid, and had the black professor to the White House, a narrative that cops are bad and should be vilified.  In Ferguson Holder made it clear cops and white governments are at fault. In Tarvon Obama made it clear he sided with Travon. In each case it was shown that the cops were not at fault, the holder Ferguson report was nothing but a racist rant proven false by Baltimore, and now we have Obama meeting with Al Sharpton to encourage him to do what he gets paid to do- rouse the trouble makers to riot.  We will see much more of these riots in other cities before this calms down.

If you are a developer and considering investing in inner city areas, think twice. Yesterday at the demonstrations which were billed as a victory rally, speaker after speaker called for more demonstrations. One speaker said- CVS ain’t done anything for me so why should we do anything for CVS. Pay attention to that statement. If you decide to build in one of those inner city areas, you have great risk these days. Kids were applauded for throwing rocks and injuring cops at the rally. That word goes out on TV to other cities.  The prosecutor made it very clear she made the charges in response to the riots and protests . Her words at the end of her press conference essentially said, next time start riots and force prosecutors to charge the cops. We now have rule by riot, not by law.

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