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Peacemaker works to stop bloodshed in Baltimore
Associated Press ^ | Dec 29, 2017 4:57 PM EST | David McFadden

Posted on 12/30/2017 8:37:20 AM PST by Olog-hai

In an alley where a teenager became one of Baltimore’s latest bodies to fall, Erricka Bridgeford whispered prayers and directed smoke from burning sage in a gathering intended to transform spots where people are slain into a kind of sacred ground.

The spiritually minded activist began to cry, letting her tears fall on asphalt where the 17-year-old boy she didn’t know was fatally shot the night before. She called out “You matter! You matter!” in a raw voice that came from somewhere deep inside her 5-foot-2 (155-centimeter) frame.

Over the past year, the African-American woman from West Baltimore has become the city’s clearest voice calling for people to lay down their weapons. A professional conflict mediator, she’s the main organizer behind “Baltimore Ceasefire,” a citizen-led effort to reverse one of the worst homicide rates in the United States. […]

Baltimore has seen 343 homicides so far this year, only one less than 2015’s 344 killings. The number was 318 in 2016.

While deadly violence has plagued swaths of the mid-Atlantic city for decades, Baltimore has been in the throes of a crime surge since 2015, when the homicide rate spiked after the city’s worst rioting in decades and the arrest of officers involved in a police-custody death. The city also is hobbled by the opioid crisis, with 694 overdose deaths in 2016. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; baltimoreceasefire; bridgeford; freakstate; liberalagenda; newage; paganism; westbaltimore
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Nope; the title does not refer to the Colt SAA.
1 posted on 12/30/2017 8:37:21 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

What a joke. AP should be embarrassed to cover this nonsense as news.

Just the first paragraph alone is enough to cause rational people to roll there eyes.


2 posted on 12/30/2017 8:39:38 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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... from somewhere deep inside her 5-foot-2 (155-centimeter) frame.

I couldn't have gone on without knowing this lady's height in the metric system.

3 posted on 12/30/2017 8:39:41 AM PST by Tax-chick ("It is better to have a home full of misbehaving children than a silent house."~Kevin Williamson)
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To: Olog-hai
West Baltimore, I blame Omar...


4 posted on 12/30/2017 8:43:47 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Olog-hai

Oh good lord.

Just hug it out folks. Just hug it out.

A professional conflict mediator who refuses to address the root causes of murder and mayhem that plague black inner cities. But hey. What do I know. She is the professional.


5 posted on 12/30/2017 8:44:12 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: Olog-hai

Until you fix the Black family and restore the importance of fatherhood and marriage, you will never fix the problems of any Black inner city.


6 posted on 12/30/2017 8:45:21 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Olog-hai

should have known this piece wasn’t about the revolver by the same name


7 posted on 12/30/2017 8:46:31 AM PST by WorkerbeeCitizen
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To: Olog-hai

Time for another don’t nobody kill anybody weekend. The last one was a rousing success with only a couple murders


8 posted on 12/30/2017 8:46:52 AM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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“Baltimore has seen 343 homicides so far this year, only one less than 2015’s 344 killings.”...

Why advertise that statistic? There’s still time for some nut job to think he can set or tie the record. Think I’m poking fun? There is still tonight and tomorrow, then read the news on New Years morning. Some people are INSANE!


9 posted on 12/30/2017 8:47:44 AM PST by DaveA37
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***and directed smoke from burning sage in a gathering intended to transform spots where people are slain into a kind of sacred ground.***

Some sort of American Indian ritual? Anyone who has ever looked at such rituals knows the Western Indians burned sage, the Eastern Indians burned Cedar.

Perhaps she should call on a Navajo Medicine Man to make a sand painting or suck a “dead man’s bone” out of the area!

All the “New Agers (occultists)” will lap this up.


10 posted on 12/30/2017 8:51:03 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: DaveA37

You mean like this ?

11 posted on 12/30/2017 8:51:47 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: DaveA37

The feral retards killing people don’t, or can’t, read the news.


12 posted on 12/30/2017 8:51:59 AM PST by EEGator
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Erricka Bridgeford whispered prayers and directed smoke from burning sage

She followed it up by chanting magic spells from the Necronomicon and casting enchanted bones onto a pile of chicken entrails. Her final act was to vote for more liberal Democrats to rule her city so that "peace will be forthcoming, just you wait."

13 posted on 12/30/2017 8:54:29 AM PST by IronJack (A)
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“The spiritually minded activist began to cry,”

This is just silly.

L


14 posted on 12/30/2017 8:54:44 AM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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Should set up clinics and pay volunteers 10 kilobucks each to get snipped. Problem will solve itself in 20 years


15 posted on 12/30/2017 8:54:55 AM PST by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: Olog-hai

>> A professional conflict mediator. <<

Plenty of work in Baltimore.


16 posted on 12/30/2017 8:55:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: IronJack
"She followed it up by chanting magic spells from the Necronomicon "


17 posted on 12/30/2017 8:58:08 AM PST by EEGator
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

The revolver was the first thing to come to my mind too. As if to imply “finally, a solution that will work”.


18 posted on 12/30/2017 9:02:46 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Never gonna happen, LBJ saw to that.


19 posted on 12/30/2017 9:11:08 AM PST by TallahasseeConservative
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..directed smoke from burning sage..

yep, that'll do it fersure

20 posted on 12/30/2017 9:13:42 AM PST by tomkat
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