CVS officially confirms plan to reopen stores burned in Baltimore riots

[LiberalElite]

Source: Baltimore Sun

The CVS Pharmacy stores looted and burned by rioters in Baltimore last week will be rebuilt, CVS Health formally announced Wednesday.

The firm, which has nearly 30 locations in Baltimore and employs more than 500 people, said it also plans to donate a total of $100,000 to two funds established to help recovery from the riots — the United Way of Central Maryland "Maryland Unites Fund" and the Baltimore Community Foundation "Fund for Rebuilding Baltimore."

CVS previously said it was working on rebuilding plans, while the city said the firm had committed to reopening. CVS Health President and CEO Larry Merlo on Wednesday called rebuilding the "right thing to do."



Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-cvs-20150506-story.html

[MicaelS]

1. Excellent! n/t

[cstanleytech]

2. Good, I am still angry at the assholes who resorted to arson though

as its going to still hurt alot of innocent folks who will end up losing their jobs with companies that decide to just take the insurance money and abandon the area rather than rebuild and risk literally getting burned twice.

[Beacool]

4. Why didn't Ferguson and Baltimore request help from the National Guard?

It's not as if the outcome was not predictable. Along with the peaceful protesters there was bound to be an element that would take advantage of the situation to loot and destroy. It happens every single time.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. They were there in Baltimore

they started leaving once the curfew was lifted.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-national-guard-demobilizing-20150504-story.html

[Beacool]

8. Well, I guess their presence was not enough to stop the looters. n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

11. I think the article said that

something like 400+ people were arrested. But as a note, if someone wants to "take" a city the size of Baltimore, you would needs tens of thousands of troops, and that is just ridiculous.

But it seems National Guard weren't needed for these looters in California -



Nothing to see there... just a "headache" and a "disturbance" from "unruly crowds".

[Beacool]

12. Where were the cops while that was going on?

Poor behavior in one place doesn't excuse similar behavior elsewhere.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. That's the problem, isn't it?

It definitely doesn't excuse the behavior but it precisely illustrates the unequal application of "policing" based on who you are and what you look like, and the linked article's very carefully worded descriptions of what had happened, very obviously downplays the violent "behavior" in that case. And many of us wonder why?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. Baltimore's mayor wanted to give people "space" to destroy ...

... but there's some waffling about the context of the comment.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/baltimore-unrest/mayor-stephanie-rawlings-blake-under-fire-giving-space-destroy-baltimore-n349656

It would be a reason to hold off the National Guard until the less-than-peaceful people got the looting and arson out of their systems. Sounds like a rope-a-dope strategy.

[Beacool]

10. I don't think that what she said is exactly what she meant.

I don't think that she meant give them freedom to burn and loot. She was probably referring to the peaceful protests. The problem is that these type of protests always seem to devolve into mayhem.

[cstanleytech]

7. The national guard not being there or being there does not give people an out for deciding to

behave like assholes and set fire to buildings though.

[Beacool]

9. Of course not, no one is saying that it excuses anyone.

I thought that their presence would have been a deterrence, but it seems that they were there and it still happened.

[Beacool]

3. That's pretty decent of them.

I'm glad that people didn't lose their jobs and that the employees of both stores are temporarily working in other locations. The donated money is quite generous too.

That doesn't excuse those who burned and looted these stores and other buildings in the city.