The Baltimore Sun takes a firm stance on the side of the villains. No, they weren’t there. No, their lives weren’t on the line. This is a textbook example of why most of Baltimore is such a disgusting hell hole of a place. The evil has taken over the city, and it runs the newspaper.
The only thing that would make this better is for the hero to have stated: “I’m about to get mid evil on yer ass”.
One of the folks in FR's Hobbit Hole calls the place "BaltiMordor".