Is she delusional? Baltimore mayor claims #FreddieGray riots were ‘over in hours’ [video]

Baltimore Sun crime reporter Justin Fenton posted a rather amusing video of Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake earlier this morning where she defends her leadership of the city during the Freddie Gray riots in April.

According to the mayor, you see, she did a really good job because the riots only occurred for “few hours on one day” and other cities “would love to have that record.”

Is she delusional? Watch for yourself:

MayorSRB on riots "lasting only a few hrs": "There's a lot of cities that would love to have that record" pic.twitter.com/zP4LCYGd8c

— Justin Fenton (@justin_fenton) July 19, 2015

Selective memory at play, because we remember the unrest lasting for days:

https://twitter.com/CorruptionWire/status/622792433571659776

.@justin_fenton "A few hours"? Along with being crazy, MayorSRB is also wrong. Riots began at 4:44pm on 4/27. When would you say over?

— Bad Hombre "[buff wrestler]" Moskos (@PeterMoskos) July 19, 2015

A few hours of rioting

How many protester arrests & released w/o charges btwn 4/27 – 5/2

…then there was #LarryLomax @justin_fenton

— Harris from the Post (@rousseau_ist) July 19, 2015

@justin_fenton My OT slip says different.

— ?????????????????®️ (@MrsDevereaux10) July 19, 2015

@justin_fenton MayorSRB #BMore is tired of hearing SRB'S denial and defensive whinning. #SuckItUpLikeARealMayor!

— Lee Raskin (@leeraskin356) July 19, 2015

And if the riot wasn’t any big deal, why the week-long curfew? A. F. James MacArthur of the Baltimore Spectator tweets:

And if now admitting things were under control in a few hours, how does this justify a week long curfew??? @justin_fenton

— MacArthur For Baltimore (@BaltoSpectator) July 19, 2015

Instituting a CITYWIDE, weeklong curfew in response to a few hours of highly isolated, localized commotion? @maxharlanwhite @justin_fenton

— MacArthur For Baltimore (@BaltoSpectator) July 19, 2015

Yet in her rhetoric she's continually referred to "the riots" as if it were some prolonged event @justin_fenton

— MacArthur For Baltimore (@BaltoSpectator) July 19, 2015

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