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Baltimore Mayor Asks Feds To Investigate Police Department
By Eyder Peralta http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/mayor-stephanie-rawlings-blake-of-baltimore-speaks-at-a-news-photo/471831456 Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has asked the Justice Department to open up a civil rights investigation into the city’s police department. “Such an investigation is essential if we are to build on the foundation of reform,” … Continue reading
Surveillance planes spotted in the sky for days after West Baltimore rioting
By Craig Timberg As Benjamin Shayne settled into his back yard to listen to the Orioles game on the radio Saturday night, he noticed a small plane looping low and tight over West Baltimore — almost exactly above where rioting … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, Cessna, Drones, surveillance, technology
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As Black And Brown People Protest Cop Killings, Whites Don’t See Institutional Racism
By Vanessa Baden Kelly As Freddie Gray was laid to rest, Americans watched as Baltimore residents protested the death of the 25 year old, whose spinal chord “mysteriously” snapped while in police custody–causing his death. On Friday, six officers were … Continue reading
Baltimore Police Officer Calls For Community And Cops To Come Together, Tells Demonstrators: ‘I’m Here For You’
By Sebastian Murdock In the days since thousands of protesters in Baltimore, Maryland have declared black lives matter and demanded an end to police brutality, one officer is reminding her community that working together is the only way to move … Continue reading
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Tagged #OneBaltimore, Baltimore, Baltimore Police, Block party, Freddie Gray, protests, race, Sgt. K Glanville
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Baltimore’s Poor White Residents Harassment
By Wilson Dizard Pigtown is a Baltimore neighborhood some two miles south of Sandtown, Freddie Gray’s neighborhood. Gray’s death on April 19, a week after the 25-year-old black man was arrested and suffered injuries while in police custody, triggered mass … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, Billyland, Pigtown, police abuse, race
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Help Baltimore by Restoring Voting Rights to Ex-Felons
By Ari Berman Freddie Gray’s neighborhood in Baltimore had the highest incarceration rate of anywhere in the city. More than 450 adults from Sandtown-Winchester are in state prison, and one in four juveniles were arrested from 2005 to 2009. These statistics … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, felony conviction, justice, law, Maryland, mass incarceration, politics, race, voting, voting rights
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Baltimore rioter turned himself in – but his family can’t afford a $500,000 bail sum
By Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland, Paul Lewis and Mae Ryan Allen Bullock was charged with eight criminal counts, including rioting and malicious destruction of property, after arriving at Baltimore’s juvenile justice centre with his stepfather, Maurice Hawkins, who said he … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Bullock, Baltimore, Freddie Gray murder, protest, race, United States, uprising
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Dear White America: Here’s What You Should Know About MLK Before Using Him to Shut Down Black Uprising
By Chauncey DeVega The United States may have a black man who happens to be President. But racial equality, justice, and the radically democratic transformative possibilities that Obama symbolized seven years ago have not been translated into substantive improvements in … Continue reading
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Tagged #One Baltimore, Baltimore, Ferguson, Freddie Gray, Martin Luther King, police abuse, race, United States
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A Ground-Level View of Baltimore’s Protests: Hope, Anger, and Beauty
Photos by Andrew Renneisen, text by Mitchell Grummon On April 12, Freddie Gray was arrested by Baltimore police. One hour later he was comatose. A week later he was dead, succumbing to spinal injuries inflicted while in … Continue reading
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