Baltimore Under Siege in the Wake of Freddie Gray’s Funeral

Baltimore is listed as the largest city in the State of Maryland, the largest independent city and the 26th most populous city in the USA. Of note is that greater than 60% of the population is Black followed by about 29% White. In the wake of Freddie Gray’s funeral – yet another Black man to die in police custody under questionable circumstances – rioting and other violent behaviour has placed the city under siege. The question onlookers are asking – is this a bunch of stupid Black people inappropriately expressing themselves? Is this a bunch of Black people with just concerns about race relations in America today? Is it ignorance and just concerns commingling?

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  • yup..mayweather ex has hired a high powered lawyer to rake him over the coals for 20million. dat a girl.. time to get up out of that corner, time to TKO that thug,

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  • Ultimately, Mayweather’s lies are the crux of the defamation suit. Harris’ lawyer writes that the claims from the Couric interview “were knowingly fabricated in order to hype Mayweather’s upcoming fight with Pacquiao, to avoid bad press by deflecting responsibility for beating the mother of his children.”

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  • MB if they do gather up some of the local notables for military service I would like to impart some advise that seems to be overlooked lately in the US….if the people you are going to shoot are in range…so are you

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  • Easy Squeeze (make no riot)

    White Privilege
    Privilege Deez Nuts

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  • Lawson

    Probably good in Bim/ USA that certain corrupt Pols were in range.

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  • MB looks like the DA doesn’t even know what is an illegal knife in Baltimore, case starting off on the wrong foot

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  • Easy Squeeze (make no riot)

    bias spin & misinterpretation supporting police is racism of the right

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  • Easy Squeeze (make no riot) May 6, 2015 at 3:28 PM #

    bias spin & misinterpretation supporting police is racism of the right. end

    Racism of the left is supporting criminals who endanger the Police?

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  • Easy Squeeze (make no riot)

    It don’t matter if they are criminals
    the police broke FG’s spine and dumped him in a van
    which is criminal
    he died in van without treatment
    Now they are still lying and covering up

    White trash on internet is a pollution on Fox CNN and others and also on BU by you

    Your Group think balanced point of view innocent gentlemen line is not genuine

    not correct
    political moral

    or worth time talking to
    and still racist, take it to your white friends in Canada instead, is my balanced POV

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  • “Chicago agrees to pay $5.5m to victims of police torture in 1970s and 80s

    Historic deal will see reparations paid to those tortured by police commander Jon Burge, who ran a group of rogue detectives know as the Midnight Crew”

    http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/06/chicago-police-torture-victims-deal

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  • Chicago city council voted to award a total of $5.5m to help survivors, almost all African American men, who were mistreated in a long episode of police brutality that ran throughout the 70s and 80s under Jon Burge.

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  • Burge was a bad apple for sure. That is the problem,Police and military attracts power hungry sadists occasionally.

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  • St George's Dragon

    “No charges will be brought against a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager in Wisconsin.”
    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-32716226

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  • To those of you living in America you may be interested in this research carried out by the UK Guardian newspaper:

    ………….The findings emerged from a database filled by a five-month study of police fatalities in the US, which calculated that local and state police and federal law enforcement agencies are killing people at twice the rate calculated by the US government’s official public record of police homicides. The database names five people whose names have not been publicly released…………..

    http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/01/black-americans-killed-by-police-analysis

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