Showing posts with label Freddie Gray. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freddie Gray. Show all posts

Saturday, August 1, 2015

The Deadly "Ferguson Effect"

August 01, 2015 43 years , Baltimore Killings 0 Comments

Baltimore Killings Soar To A Level Unseen In 43 years

By Juliet Linderman, July 31, 2015 AP

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore reached a grim milestone on Friday, three months after riots erupted in response to the death of Freddie Gray in police custody: With 45 homicides in July, the city has seen more bloodshed in a single month than it has in 43 years.

Police reported three deaths — two men shot Thursday and one on Friday. The men died at local hospitals.

With their deaths, this year's homicides reached 189, far outpacing the 119 killings by July's end in 2014. Nonfatal shootings have soared to 366, compared to 200 by the same date last year. July's total was the worst since the city recorded 45 killings in August 1972, according to The Baltimore Sun.

The seemingly Sisyphean task of containing the city's violence prompted Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to fire her police commissioner, Anthony Batts, on July 8.


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Friday, May 29, 2015

Well, Okay, Why HAS violence gone up?

Well, Okay, Why HAS violence gone up?

May 29, 2015 Baltimore , Freddie Gray 0 Comments
FNC’s Leland Vittert Grills Baltimore on Whether Murder Is Up Due to Work Slowdown by Cops

May 28, 2015



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Thursday, May 28, 2015

No Surprise!

May 28, 2015 ABC News/AP , Baltimore 0 Comments
Baltimore Gets Bloodier As Arrests Drop Post-Freddie Gray

By Juliet Linderman, May 28, 2015, ABC News/AP

A 31-year-old woman and a young boy were shot in the head Thursday, becoming Baltimore's 37th and 38th homicide victims so far this month, the city's deadliest in 15 years.

The most recent killings claimed the lives of Jennifer Jeffrey and her 7-year-old son, Kester Anthony Browne. They were identified by Jeffrey's sister, Danielle Wilder.

Jeffrey and her son were found dead early Thursday, each from gunshot wounds to the head.

As family members cried and held each other on the quiet, leafy block in Southwest Baltimore where they lived, Wilder said she felt as if "my heart has been ripped out."

Wilder said a neighbor called their other sister early Thursday, concerned that she hadn't heard any noise coming from Jeffrey's house: no footsteps, Wilder said, no voices, and no gunshots. But when her brother let himself into the house to check on the mother and son, he discovered their bodies.

"She was in the living room," Wilder said. "The baby was upstairs, in the bed."

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The New Policing

May 28, 2015 Baltimore Police Union , Colin Campbell 0 Comments
Baltimore Police Union: Cops More Afraid Of Going To Jail Than Getting Shot

By Colin Campbell, May 28, 2015, The Baltimore Sun

The president of the Baltimore police union on Thursday said that criminals have become "empowered" following the recent unrest and that, with six officers charged in Freddie Gray's death, city police are more "afraid" of being arrested than shot on duty.

Gray, 25, died a week after suffering a severed spinal cord and other injuries in police custody. His death led to more than a week of protests and later rioting, that prompted a citywide curfew and the deployment of the National Guard.

"The criminals are taking advantage of the situation in Baltimore since the unrest," said Gene Ryan, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3. "Criminals feel empowered now. There is no respect. Police are under siege in every quarter. They are more afraid of going to jail for doing their jobs properly than they are of getting shot on duty."
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Clearly the police are pouting a bit, but can you blame them? That is a dangerous-ass city to patrol, irrespective of the political climate. Now they feel resentment from the public they protect and abandoned by slimy politicians. Hard to keep your game face on under those circumstances.

The union released the statement on Twitter a day after the officers charged in Gray's death filed a motion to have the trial moved out of Baltimore. Police commissioner Anthony W. Batts apologized to the union Monday night for putting officers in harm's way.

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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

You mean, you don't know?

You mean, you don't know?

May 26, 2015 Anderson Cooper , Anthony Batts 0 Comments
Baltimore Police Chief: I Hope There Is Not a Work Slowdown

May 22, 2015



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