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Natalie Portman Apple+ Series Forced To Halt Production After Extortion Threats From Baltimore Locals

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A spokesperson for the Baltimore Police Department said the crew was filming around 4 PM in the downtown area when the producers were approached by several people. The group claimed if they didn’t stop filming they would come back and shoot someone, police said.

However, they said no violence would occur if they were paid an unspecified amount. Producers decided to halt filming and seek a new location. Local news outlet The Baltimore Banner reported that drug dealers attempted to extort $50,000 from the production, which producers declined to pay.

Wow. XD
 
They’re just peaceful protestors!

The OP was sharing an interesting story about drug dealers trying to extort 50k from a TV show and your first thought was to relate it to people that were protesting 2 years ago as a political talking point. Would this have happened 10 years ago or has social media just made people demented? How did politics become so all consuming and not just simply voting for people that you thought might pass some good laws?
 
The OP was sharing an interesting story about drug dealers trying to extort 50k from a TV show and your first thought was to relate it to people that were protesting 2 years ago as a political talking point. Would this have happened 10 years ago or has social media just made people demented? How did politics become so all consuming and not just simply voting for people that you thought might pass some good laws?
She was begging for defunding the police two years ago. Her wishes came true. That's why this has made national news. Baltimore city/county police is down 600. The city has been begging for fed help because of recruitment difficulty.

She should prolly just handle this one herself.

 
She was begging for defunding the police two years ago. Her wishes came true. That's why this has made national news. Baltimore city/county police is down 600. The city has been begging for fed help because of recruitment difficulty.

She should prolly just handle this one herself.

The “white privilege” mantra. If I never hear that term again it will be too soon. Not holding my breath though. Way too many sheep living in todays world. Wonder how May feels today. Defunding a great idea until it effects you. (Good Find!!!)
 
C'mon JDee, we need Portman pics posted pronto.
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The OP was sharing an interesting story about drug dealers trying to extort 50k from a TV show and your first thought was to relate it to people that were protesting 2 years ago as a political talking point. Would this have happened 10 years ago or has social media just made people demented? How did politics become so all consuming and not just simply voting for people that you thought might pass some good laws?

Don’t be disingenuous, you’re well aware what caused this behavior. Bad people are empowered more today than anytime in our lives. This kind of thing would have never happened previously, and if it were attempted, there would have swift and severe consequences. In todays world, they just move their location. Why is that exactly? It’s almost like there should be a group of people out there defending others who need defending.

You stop punishing bad people for doing bad things, and you get even worse things. This is a direct result of liberal policy and media.
 
She was begging for defunding the police two years ago. Her wishes came true. That's why this has made national news. Baltimore city/county police is down 600. The city has been begging for fed help because of recruitment difficulty.

She should prolly just handle this one herself.

Why didn't she pay them? They're clearly oppressed and she clearly can afford it. She really is a dirty racist...

Colonizing Bitch Gonna Colonize.
 
Meh. Just more examples of people trying to replace what works with what feels good. They're lucky anyone even bothered asking before just shooting.
 
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She was begging for defunding the police two years ago. Her wishes came true.

In what way? What police were "defunded?" Baltimore police budget was "more than $530M" in FY2020, was proposed to increase a few % but after pandemic revenue decreases and police protests ended up being decreased about 1% for FY2021 to, if my math is right between a couple of articles, $527M. That's still $30M HIGHER than the budget was just a few years prior in 2018. For FY2022 it went back up, above the 2020 level, to $555M. The just passed budget for FY2023 increases that again to $560M.

Baltimore police budget has gone up $67M over 5 years. Police were not defunded.
 
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I agree, not everything needs to be political here.. but it's kind of hard NOT to laugh at this one.

1. Baltimore is one of the worst examples of a liberal-run machine city.
2. Baltimore police finally start to give up over the last decade, stop initiating arrests, and dwindling officer numbers.
3. Crime goes up.
4. A liberal Hollywood elite sees first hand what a lawless city is like, as a very serious and very out-in-the-open crime is committed, due to lack of control.
5. Instead of doing anything to fix it, they just leave to go film in a nicer area lol.
 
1,3,2,4,5?







In what way? What police were "defunded?" Baltimore police budget was "more than $530M" in FY2020, was proposed to increase a few % but after pandemic revenue decreases and police protests ended up being decreased about 1% for FY2021 to, if my math is right between a couple of articles, $527M. That's still $30M HIGHER than the budget was just a few years prior in 2018. For FY2022 it went back up, above the 2020 level, to $555M. The just passed budget for FY2023 increases that again to $560M.

Baltimore police budget has gone up $67M over 5 years. Police were not defunded.
Defunding was the dem talking point of 2020, not 2022. They made their point with the 1% decrease FY2021. Of course it's going up now.



Biden's going to come out Thursday and say the dems are tough on crime. Believe what you will.


If they can get msnbc to shut up about it, you'll think "defund the police" is another right wing conspiracy. Prolly need a factchecker "context" label.




Edit:

Biden already announced today.

Biden traveled to Pennsylvania to promote his proposal to bolster police forces across the nation and reduce gun crime, which includes hiring and training 100,000 police officers over the next five years.
"When it comes to public safety in this nation, the answer is not defund the police, it's fund the police," Biden said.
Biden said, "I'm tired of not giving the kind of help they need. Folks, look, we're in a situation in this country where we have to give them additional resources they need to get their job done."
 
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If they can get msnbc to shut up about it, you'll think "defund the police" is another right wing conspiracy. Prolly need a factchecker "context" label.
My man over here typing up a storm yet decides to type "Prolly" instead of "Probably".

No, Defund the Police was an idiotic Progressive stance that establishment Dems tried to shut down because it was a losing strategy. Know what else is a losing and idiotic strategy? The stance that the FBI must be defunded and fired. Seems that's become the Republican talking point as of late. We're all pawns. A few in one party wanted to defund a certain group in 2020 and two years later a few who feel opposite want to defund another group. Meanwhile, everyone in the middle is just trying to do their jobs.

Black Swan and Leon are both great btw.
 
Defunding was the dem talking point of 2020, not 2022. They made their point with the 1% decrease FY2021. Of course it's going up now.

Biden's going to come out Thursday and say the dems are tough on crime. Believe what you will.

If they can get msnbc to shut up about it, you'll think "defund the police" is another right wing conspiracy. Prolly need a factchecker "context" label.
Defunding the police as an action that happened vs a slogan people chanted IS a right wing conspiracy theory. Vast majority of cities never decreased police funding at all. In Baltimore, when they made across the board cuts to the budget in 2020 in response to revenue decreases during covid, they threw a token 1% cut on police to appease protesters, a one year downward blip amid years before and after of substantial increases. The budget police in Baltimore currently operate with is larger than it was during the protests. If you mean to allege that "defund the police" has anything to do with crime rates, that is indeed a conspiracy theory.
 
She was begging for defunding the police two years ago. Her wishes came true. That's why this has made national news. Baltimore city/county police is down 600. The city has been begging for fed help because of recruitment difficulty.

She should prolly just handle this one herself.



Place is shit hole . As far as being political .. well , truth is truth , politics or not .. Its impossible for this to NOT be political .
 
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My man over here typing up a storm yet decides to type "Prolly" instead of "Probably".

No, Defund the Police was an idiotic Progressive stance that establishment Dems tried to shut down because it was a losing strategy. Know what else is a losing and idiotic strategy? The stance that the FBI must be defunded and fired. Seems that's become the Republican talking point as of late. We're all pawns. A few in one party wanted to defund a certain group in 2020 and two years later a few who feel opposite want to defund another group. Meanwhile, everyone in the middle is just trying to do their jobs.

Black Swan and Leon are both great btw.


I realize this woman is a fringe Democrat that hardly anyone knows. But she sounds pretty clear that money should be diverted from police to other government entities.
 
I don't know what's more disgusting. Democrats pretending they're now pro-police and didn't push a platform to defund them while carrying out burn, loot, murder in cities across the country. Or the naïve, ignorant people who will believe them.

It wasn't just a slogan any more than Antifa is "just an idea". It was pushed from the highest levels of government. Dem cities across the country took measures to defund their police departments and shift funding to "social programs".

Dems have no constructive policies for the country. They carry out chaos and destruction, then come election time, resort to lies, and handouts relying on public ignorance to paint themselves as the good guys. If they win, they'll use the same formula to take us all down further.
 
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