Posted on 04/27/2015 10:36:21 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Before protests over Freddie Gray’s death turned chaotic, an unlikely alliance was born in Baltimore on Saturday: Rivals from the Bloods and the Crips agreed to march side by side against police brutality.
The alleged gang members are pictured on social media crowding together with Nation of Islam activists, who told The Daily Beast they brokered the truce in honor of Gray, who died last week after sustaining spinal injuries while in police custody.
In one photo, a gang activist in a red sweatshirt crouches to fit into a group photo with rivals decked out in blue bandanas.
“I can say with honesty those brothers demonstrated they can be united for a common good,” said Carlos Muhammad, a minister at Nation of Islam’s Mosque No. 6. “At the rally, they made the call that they must be united on that day. It should be commended.”
The detente was only a small part of the demonstration drawing 1,200 people to Baltimore’s City Hall, but it raised eyebrows among activists. Are things so bad that even Baltimore’s gang adversaries are joining forces to combat law enforcement?
“We can unite and stop killing one another,” Muhammad told The Daily Beast, “and the Bloods and the Crips can help rebuild their community.”
DeRay McKesson, an organizer known for his work in Ferguson, also confirmed the street-crime ceasefire. He live-tweeted Saturday’s mostly peaceful demonstration, which later descended into clashes with police and smashed storefronts and cop cars, and alerted followers of a possible respite in gangland.
“The fight against police brutality has united people in many ways that we have not seen regularly, and that’s really powerful,” McKesson told The Daily Beast. “The reality is, police have been terrorizing black people as far back as we can remember. It will take all of us
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A civil war delayed will be a civil war intensified, when it finally occurs.
According to this article the police say gangs are teaming up to “take out” officers
They are teaming up to kill cops.
Its not just Bloods and Crips. Baltimore is home to ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guerrilla_Family
Which as you know has muzzie ties and is responsible for the 2 cops killed in NYC after Eric Garner died.
Carlos Muhammed
what an Intellect
” Carlos Muhammed is posting a scenario and want to see what your response on it would be. Here goes:
You’ve done pretty well for yourself, placed your children in “better” school’s where Blacks are the minority population. Years later, you realize your son/daughter acts like a white man/woman; or shall I say, prefers things that white people like (hockey, lacrosse, fraternity/sorority is predominately white, most friends including girlfriends/boyfriends are white). How do you handle it? Honestly...
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“Are things so bad that even Baltimore’s gang adversaries are joining forces to combat law enforcement?”
No. From the mayor’s words & deeds, they recognize there is now a power vacuum in Baltimore, and are moving to fill it. They won’t be stopped short of her being replaced by a “hang ‘em high” mayor.
BTW … “Nation of Islam” also joined in.
Kind of like that silly woman (Jean Quan) who served one term as mayor of Oakland, California.
She was so bad, even Jerry Brown looked good in comparison.
Opportunity knocks, they take full advantage. Then when its’ over, they’ll be at each others throats again.
So I’m not the only one that had this come to mind.
Can you dig it?
Crips,bloods and CNN working together!
Doesn’t Cyrus kind of look like Obama?
Yeah they won’t even make it that far. They’ll be back to preying on each other in no time.
The Crips, Bloods, and Nation of Islam have an alliance against the police - anyone truly doubt that it won't be invoked with smok and blood?
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Sort of, I suppose.
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