Posted on 08/04/2017 10:48:01 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Baltimore’s ‘nobody kill anybody’ weekend starts today
John Sexton Posted at 1:21 pm on August 4, 2017
The number of deadly shootings in Baltimore has gone up sharply this year. There have been 208 homicides so far which is more than the number in New York, despite the fact that New York has 10 times the population. This weekend residents are hoping for a ceasefire to prove it is possible to stop the violence, at least temporarily. From NBC News:
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.
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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I was wrong when I said 24 hr period, the weekend would be 48 hours. That changes the odds a lot. There’s plenty of time left to make 3. Maybe too much time with the rest of tonight and up to midnight Sunday night. I guess that would be the cutoff.
Yes, maybe I was a bit too conservative with my estimate. Time will tell.
LOL
Well at least you got a bet in. I procrastinated and didn’t make a pick.
Is the count still sitting at one?
It’s up to 2 now, there is still time!
Well, ... keep hope alive! lol
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