Today.
Posted on 08/04/2017 7:28:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Erricka Bridgeford was 12 when she first saw a man die because he found himself at the wrong end of a bullet on Baltimore's streets.
More than 30 years later, she’s pursuing a city-wide 72-hour ceasefire that began midnight Thursday to end a recent wave of violence that's taken hold of her Chesapeake Bay home.
Although it has less than a tenth of New York City's population, Baltimore has suffered 48 more homicides in 2017, according to police statistics.
The Maryland city's murder rate is also on the rise, 20 percent higher compared to the same period last year.
Hoping to prove that peace is possible, Bridgeford and other activists patrolled the streets of Baltimore and approached people with flyers in hand. She asked them to commit to the "Nobody Kill Anybody" weekend, requesting that they not exacerbate the violent trend in their neighborhoods.
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Abortions don’t count.
Nobody kill anybody (unless dey be white, da po leece, o b disrepeckn me an mah homies)
If a law won’t stop them, a political statement won’t make a dent.
So, what does one do? Save it all up for first thing Monday morning?
I will gladly take the pledge, that I will not shoot anyone this weekend!!
what a great idea!!!
Now, can she convince the feral youth gang types, the ones who settle all slights, real and imagined, with violence, not to shoot anyone????
Will they actually follow through?? It be easy for these cats to say, ya, they won’t shoot anyone, until they get “dissed”, or find themselves in a drug deal gone bad. Then, their feral instincts take over, and they reach for their gun. Then the truce is over.
Can feral uncivilized savages in our cities, really pledge to behave in a civilized manner???
The hours after a “Peace march” is always deadly. Gives the homies time to reload and find new targets.
Only seriously injure them, that is ok.
Her heart is in the right place. But a more effective goal would be to push “If you see something, say something.” People in the neighborhood know who the shooters are shortly after a shooting. But nobody says anything to the police out of a combination of fear and misplaced loyalty.
And so the shootings continue.
That one on the left will never make it for a whole weekend.
Drug trade won’t stop. When a youth with a 7th grade education makes $ 100,000.00 tax free selling drugs on a corner and someone else decides to sell on that corner he gets shot.
Well if that doesn’t work nothing will.
Yep, it’s the whole snitches get stitches thing. Sadly, it happens. It’s always so frustrating, to hear law enforcement people tell us, that they show up to a crime scene, but nobody saw anything.
9PM curfew - jail anyone on the street after that time
put a cop on every street corner - call in the national guard if you have to
Oh, this is what they forgot to do in Chicago too.
I wonder what percentage of weekends this year have not had a killing. Must be one or two.
I think they did this a couple weeks ago, and I kept my pledge to not kill ANYONE in Baltimore that weekend. I am going to re-up on this, and again pledge to make it through the weekend without killing anyone in Baltimore. FReepers, are you up to this challenge?
The Idiocracy has arrived.
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