Thursday night turned out to be a seriously tragic episode in Baltimore, where the city is already in the grips of major unrest over the case of Freddy Gray. Ten people were shot, with three of them winding up dead and the remainder being treated for wounds of varying severity. Hearing something like that, you’re to be forgiven if you are once again expressing dismay over the relations between the police and the community. How, you might be wondering, could this happen? Are the looters out of control? Have the cops just started mowing people down at random?
Well, as it turns out you would be wrong. This had nothing to do with the protests or the police or the Mayor or the City Attorney. This was just another night in Baltimore. (From the Baltimore Sun)
Ten shootings were reported Thursday across Baltimore, continuing a spate of gun violence that began after riots overtook West Baltimore on April 27. At least three of the victims died.
About 40 people have been shot since April 28, the day after Baltimore’s most intense day of rioting.
Just after midnight Thursday morning, a 24-year-old man walked into an area hospital with a gunshot wound to his foot. The victim told police he was approached by an unknown man who shot him in the 1200 block of E. North Ave.
It wasn’t police shootings and it wasn’t protesters gone wild. This was the gang activity and random violence which grips parts of Baltimore and other major urban centers. The newspaper wasn’t even able to identify all of the victims by name, including one of the deceased. But another young woman was known to residents and her story had the worst ending of all.
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How come black lives only seem to mather when they are killed by police? When African-Americans are killed by African-Americans that are not in the police force, do the lives no longer matter? It clearly seems like a double standard to me!
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame but when your boyfriends a drug dealer and you are a user you are playing around with fire. Antonio L Harold is the boyfriends name.
ReplyDelete"It’s almost as if these gang members don’t care about following the law."
ReplyDeleteNow thats some funny stuff.
She's white. Her boyfriend's black. Don't know who killed her but they were both heavily involved in drug activity.
ReplyDeleteMemo to the BPD - please stand down. Don't risk your life on these worthless pos. Stay safe.
ReplyDeleteThe world will see.
3:20 that is what the feds want so they can impose martial law
ReplyDelete3:30 Maybe so and that too will be answered.
ReplyDeleteNobody cares if a black kills a black, just if a white kills a black. com on man.
ReplyDeleteTwo things:
ReplyDelete1. I think this is what urban areas look like when police are pulling back because they fear a witch hunt. I wonder if this is what black america wants.
2. How stupid of me, I thought i heard the new draconian gun laws that went into effect on 10/1/2013 was going to solve all of these gun violence issues. At least that is what these idiots said in annapolis. So now poor blacks cant afford the training for the HQL so they can't legally protect themselves so they are prisoners in their own neighborhoods. How sad.
This is what you get when you have the following. Lenient laws, lenient Judges, drug dealers gone wild, gangs gone wild, Liberal Law makers, to liberal prison system, to restrictive gun laws for law abiding Citizens must I say more.
ReplyDeleteBaltimore was warned when the "BLOODS", "CRYPT", "BGF", "NATION OF ISLAM" and the "NEW BLACK PANTHERS" united as one.
Common sense should have told them they were going to war to reestablish their turf.
This shows the ignorance of the so called "POLITIAN" that is getting tax payer money for incompetence.