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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 For Real’: A Tour Through Troubled Sandtown
By Nurith Aizenman Travon Addison is an athletic 25-year-old, with short cropped hair, a wispy beard and tattoos all over his arms. I first spot him with a pack of his buddies in the lobby of Baltimore’s New Shiloh Baptist … Continue reading
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Tagged #OneBaltimore, Freddie Gray shooting, race, Sandtown
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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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As investigation enters fifth month, Tamir Rice’s mother has moved into a homeless shelter
By Wesley Lowery The City of Cleveland has asked the family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy shot and killed while he played with a toy gun in a Westside park in November, to halt their civil lawsuit until the … Continue reading
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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Game on Baltimore & Being a Part of ’92 L.A. Riots: ‘Young Black Men Are Targets’
After a day of unrest and rioting in Baltimore on Monday, April 28, the tension between its citizens and law enforcement lessened a bit on Tuesday with few arrests made, mostly over refusal to adhere to a local-government-mandated curfew. The … Continue reading
Apartheid Games: Baltimore, Urban America, and Camden Yards
By Dave Zirin If you don’t understand Oriole Park at Camden Yards, then you can’t understand why Baltimore exploded this week. If you don’t understand Oriole Park at Camden Yards then you can’t understand why what happened in Baltimore can … Continue reading
Freddie Gray: Don’t trust the 1% with police reform
By Donald Earl Collins The history of policing in the US has been one of protecting private property, money and lives of the affluent and politically powerful, at least since the NYPD’s founding in 1845. Any new efforts at police … Continue reading
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Tagged #OneBaltimore, Freddie Gray murder, justice, law, police abuse, police reform, race, racism, United States
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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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Mississippi Man Sentenced for His Role in a Conspiracy to Commit Racially Motivated Assaults, Culminating in the Killing of an African-American Man Run Over by Truck
United States Department of Justice Mississippi Man Sentenced for His Role in a Conspiracy to Commit Racially Motivated Assaults, Culminating in the Killing of an African-American Man Run Over by Truck The Justice Department announced today that John Louis Blalack, … Continue reading
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Tagged James Craig Anderson, John Louis Blalack, justice, law, Mississippi, murder, race, racism, US Department of Justice
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