Posted on 07/07/2022 8:07:59 PM PDT by KevinB
BALTIMORE (AP) — A man was shot and killed after he swung a baseball bat at a person who cleans windshields at intersections for cash, Baltimore’s police commissioner said Thursday.
The 48-year-old man who was shot was driving through an intersection near Baltimore’s Inner Harbor in the afternoon when he encountered so-called squeegee workers and had a heated interaction, Commissioner Michael Harrison told reporters.
Squeegee workers, also known as squeegee kids, consist mostly of teens from low-income neighborhoods who clean drivers’ windshields at intersections in exchange for money. Some drivers in Baltimore have complained about them.
The man drove through the intersection, parked his car and came back with a baseball bat, Harrison said.
“He swung the bat at one or more of those squeegee workers. In return, one of the squeegee workers pulled out a gun and fired, striking this male victim,” the commissioner said, adding that police didn’t know if he hit anyone with the bat.
The man was pronounced dead at a hospital. His name wasn’t released.
The workers fled the scene on foot, Harrison said. No arrests had been made as of late afternoon.
A witness told The Baltimore Sun that he saw a squeegee worker shoot the man after he got out of his car with the bat. Cody Bro, who was visiting Baltimore for a convention, said he saw the driver “arguing with one of the squeegee people — the people who squeegee your windows.”
Me: "Feral terrorist thugs"
Left out is that the little bastards spray dirty water on windshields first ... then demand money in exchange for cleaning up the mess they created.
Yeah, during SCHOOL HOURS, during which they might acquire an education and make something of themselves, these critters are standing at inner city intersections in Baltimore (and other cities) waiting for red lights so they can extort the captive drivers into paying them to wipe off the sudsy water they just sprayed across peoples’ windshields. The corrupt and useless Baltimore government takes no action against these feral animals, which is typical. I try to stay in the suburbs and not go into downtown Baltimore. I haven’t heard of them shooting someone, but I wish the bat had cracked a few skulls.
This is all so vibrant and exciting!!! Imagine how boring the 50s were with all of those YTs!
MD ping
Oh good God. This will now be the big story.
Seems as of now the emphasis is on the guy with the bat.
When the emphasis should be on the “squeegie kids” with THE GUN! Normally anyone with GUN! Will be vilified, but in this case likely not.
Before anyone comments further, this “squeegie kid” problem has been a debate a long time. What is the problem? They simply start cleaning your windows and DEMAND payment or YOU get assaulted!
I’m sure the squeegee worker had a concealed carry permit to defend himself against thugs with baseball bats. /s
We’ve been culturally enriched! Again.
The “Squeegee workers” are all quite adept at both using the squeegee as a weapon and denting your car with it if you do not submit to their extortion.
What ethnicity was the guy with the bat? I’ll assume the squeegee workers were black. What about the bat swinger, was he black too? Curious.
YT?
Actually the ‘50s were the bane of civilization, don’t you know. Evil white people totally dominating and everything was so clean and moral and BORING!
Yes. Rudy Giuliani made the squeegee men the poster children of his crackdown on crime in NYC. They are not workers they are bullies and menacing thugs who basically hold you up for cash. Highwaymen you might say. No surprise that Cesspool Baltimore has generated their own crop of these vermin.
Never bring a bat to a gun fight
“Never bring a bat to a gun fight”
Unless it’s Dracula 🧛♂️
Yt = whitey, a/k/a “honkies” or “cracks”
Yes. Crime and indolence and drug addiction are exciting and vibrant and so forth. Baltimore, Newark, Washington D.C., Memphis, Philadelphia, New York, Detroit, Atlanta, Birmingham, Seattle, Oakland, ... They are all so much better now than they used to be! Except for the crime and so forth...
Meanwhile, conservatives want to blame the Democrats of that era. Ugh. They pretty well predicted what would happen. Ugh
Remember full service gas stations? Windshields were always clean. If we go back to that, there would be plenty of jobs for these kids.
How dare you expose the truth! Well done. John 8:32.
The real solution to the problem is to stay out of Maryland. That state is a lost cause.
Remember full serve gas stations ?
I still go to one…I have never filled my gas tank
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Yeah, during SCHOOL HOURS, during which they might acquire an education”
That bus left the station years ago.
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