MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Baltimore After Freddie Gray
By trkingmomoe on Sun, 05/10/2015 - 3:11am |In the flurry of articles about the widely televised violence after the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody, most television outlets and several pundits focused on the violence. Like WBALTV’s reporting staff and my former coblogger Ramona, most decried any sort of violence, but a few invoked the Boston Tea Party as an example of resorting to violence when other measures were exhausted. One pundit excoriated any outsider that would call for violence, but in the manner of Chris Rock, “understood” why frustrated black residents might go there.
David Simon, the Wire creator who still lives in Charm City, heard the devil call his name and told Bill Keller of The Marshall Project that the violence has been simmering for decades:
I think everyone will like to read this from Donal.
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https://donalfagan.wordpress.com/2015/05/09/baltimore-after-freddie-gray/?fb_action_ids=10204445805651484&fb_action_types=news.publishes&fb_ref=pub-standard
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