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Reporter Paulina Leonovich “was on the ground covering the Freddie Gray protests for Russia Today’s Ruptly news service” last night, Debra Heine writes at the PJ Tatler. “Freddie Gray is the 25-year-old black man whose spine was severed when he was arrested on April 12. He died a week later:”
The video shows an angry and aggressive mob surrounding the reporter, making obscene hand gestures, yelling vulgarities and getting alarmingly close to her until someone snatches her purse — at which point the distraught reporter can be heard yelling “give it back!” as she chases the thieves down the street. The Baltimore police enter the scene and one of the men is taken to the ground, but it’s not clear whether or not they have retrieved her purse. Leonovich can be heard sobbing and she cuts the live feed.
It’s the perfect metaphor for the Obama era — shortly before being elected, Barack Obama promised that he would “spread the wealth around,” and his fellow “coat and tie radicals,” to borrow from Bob Tyrrell’s classic phrase, constantly obsess over finding as many ways as possible to do that “legally.” Mr. Obama’s more youthful supporters passionately employ the “mostly peaceful” methods demonstrated above.
And as Jon Gabriel of Ricochet tweeted last November during the Obama/MSM–approved Ferguson riots, “My favorite part about the Obama era is all the racial healing.”
Related: In an earlier post today, I joked about questioning the timing of the protesters rioting during the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, when the legacy media would be too busy worshiping themselves to cut away to cover the riots. But they also likely ended former Baltimore mayor turned Maryland governor Martin O’Malley’s longshot bid to be the Democrat party’s presidential nominee as well, much to Hillary’s delight.
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