A tense week in the US ‘capital of police brutality’: Anger simmers in Baltimore

Al Jazeera America's Fault Lines Program ^ | June 15, 2015 | Paul Abowd and Nikhil Swaminathan

[2ndDivisionVet]

Paul Abowd, Fault Lines, Associate Producer

Paul Abowd is a journalist and filmmaker based in D.C.. Prior to joining Fault Lines, he was a journalism fellow at American University and an investigative reporter at the Center for Public Integrity, covering money in politics.

His work has appeared in The Huffington Post, Mother Jones, The Washington Post, Labor Notes, Nation of Change, Z Magazine, Monthly Review, Truthout, Counterpunch, Critical Moment, The Muslim Link, In These Times, The Electronic Intifada, WisconsinWatch.org, The Center for Public Integrity and NBC.com.

He is from Detroit, where he reported on the labor movement, produced a documentary about public housing, and led poetry workshops for 4th graders.

Nikhil Swaminathan

Before joining Fault Lines, Nikhil held online editorial positions at Scientific American, Good and Seed magazines.

Most recently, he was senior editor at Archaeology, where he wrote and edited feature articles, in addition to managing the redesign and operations of the magazine’s website.

His writing has appeared in Wired, Mother Jones, Discover, Scientific American Mind, Psychology Today, Atlanta, The Village Voice, FastCompany.com, and Newsweek.com.

[Sherman Logan]

But he told us that in this neighborhood, if you're a young black man, any number of simple actions, like making eye contact with a police officer and running away, is viewed by police as suspicious behavior.

I'm an old white guy. If I make eye contact with a cop and then run away, it will be viewed as suspicious behavior. Probably because it IS suspicious behavior from any logical POV.

If that doesn't qualify, what would the authors consider suspicious?

We can argue about whether cops should shoot people that turn and run on seeing them, but this is the first I've seen someone claim the cops shouldn't chase them down and ask them why they ran.

[silverleaf]

Next week, reporting live from Raqqa Syria, ISIS headquarters.....

[AppyPappy]

Makes for good TV for those of us in the hills

[2ndDivisionVet]

Baltimore’s non-solutions to urban woes
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-gray-letter-20150615-story.html

[2ndDivisionVet]

They probably have “different” Muslims to embed there.

[silverleaf]

“Seared into our national conscience”

Truckloads of women and girls arriving at a slavemarket, or fat women and skinny men with pants on the ground running out of a burning CVS with armloads of toilet paper ......

Hmm.

[onyx]

So, Baltimore is the Capital of PO-lice Brutality! We'll, how about that? Perhaps those “folks “ would prefer to PO-lice themselves?

[Dallas59]

Not a peep for 50 plus murders because of Black on Black crime. The article is totally hogwash.

[onyx]

So, Baltimore is the Capital of PO-lice Brutality! Well, how about that? Perhaps those “folks “ would prefer to PO-lice themselves?

[onyx]

So, Baltimore is the Capital of PO-lice Brutality! Well, how about that? Perhaps those “folks “ would prefer to PO-lice themselves?

[onyx]

My computer/modem blew up during a T-storm. Having a difficult time posting from IPhone Lol

[TalBlack]

“It’s sad that people seem to care more about broken buildings than broken lives,” he said.

I’ve been reading articles like this and the above sentiment since the 1970’s. When are the people in these neighborhoods going to notice that the people they have been voting for all this time seem content with the way things are.

[exPBRrat]

You just can’t civilize negro...I wish it wasn’t so. It’s really disheartening to see the results of what legally empowered negros have done to all our once functioning institutions/municipalities/industries/schools.

[driftless2]

It’s not all black people...obviously blacks like Tom Sowell, Walter Williams, Jason Riley, and millions of others proves you can. It’s the Black Underclass that can’t be civilized. Somehow the BU has to be separated from the rest of society.

[dp0622]

I’m beginning to get tired and this was good comic relief before nodding off :)
They’re just misunderstood youths :)

[Ready4Freddy]

lol

Apparently you have no problem posting. It’s stopping that’s a problem. ;)

[Old Sarge]

obviously blacks like Tom Sowell, Walter Williams, Jason Riley, and millions of others proves you can.

And if you mentioned those names to any black activist, you would get screamed at, "THEY'RE NOT REALLY BLACK!"

[Old Sarge]

Where do I start???

Two Leftist metrosexuals with street creds from major Leftist outlets?

Al Jazzerra???

Thanks for the laughs, ‘Vet.

[driftless2]

You're correct, but blacks like Sowell and the others used to be the normal black voices. It wasn't until the sixties and the Malcolm Xs and Stokely Carmichaels of the black population starting spreading their poison that black leaders were expected to be anti-American.