Stob the violins !
Posted on 04/29/2019 5:15:56 AM PDT by csvset
Juan Grant, a close family friend of Freddie Gray’s who led protests in front of the Western District police station demanding answers after Gray’s death from injuries suffered in police custody in 2015, was shot to death in West Baltimore Saturday, his family said.
Grant, whose brother had a child with Gray’s twin sister, was best friends with Gray and considered the two brothers-in-law. As tensions rose in the days after the 25-year-old died of spinal cord injuries following his arrest four years ago near Gilmor Homes, Grant returned daily to the police station and met with then-Police Commissioner Anthony Batts and then-Deputy Commissioner Kevin Davis, desperate for information. “He was trying to make a difference in his own way,” said Frederina Grant, his grandmother. “He was determined that he was going to march and have people march with him to find out what happened.”
Detectives told Frederina the 33-year-old had been driving back to his grandmother’s Westwood Avenue home about 8 p.m. Saturday after dropping off a cousin who had done work on her house when his black Cadillac collided with a dirt bike in the 1800 block of N. Payson St., his grandmother said. He got out of the car, she said. “I don’t know whether it was to confront this person or to see if this person was OK. “Whoever it was just shot him,” Frederina Grant said. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead with gunshot wounds to the head.
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Stob the violins !
Dirt Bag hits Dirt Bike takes Dirt Nap.
So much trash in the street.
“FWIW” “trash” - and not all of it recyclable, and nothing BUT that for 10s of blocks in all directions. Wow.
So the jest of this is that whenever driving in Baltimore and you hit anything (car, motorbike, garbage truck, etc)....don’t get out for anything, just keep driving.
Where is Black Lives Matter on this?
I gather the murderer is unknown at this time, but the biggest threat to black men in America is other black men, and 2nd place isn’t even close.
VietVet876 said: “Dirt Bag hits Dirt Bike takes Dirt Nap.”
miles away from any actual dirt trails but right there on the concrete pavement of Baltimore (the armpit of America).
What do you expect? The Mayor isn’t “lucid”...
Reading the article, it is hard to fathom the tragedy that family has endured. Doesn’t even sound like America.
Baltimore is a dump.
gist not jest
I’m pretty sure there’s more to the story than what Grandma’s willing to spill.
This entire nation is rotting around the edges...
A MAGA hat wasn’t mentioned so I assume they left that out on purpose/.
An Amish man was seen fleeing the scene.
There must be tens of thousands of unlicensed dirt bikes within the city limits of Baltimore. Most of them are ridden by unlicensed young teen riders who are junior members of one of the gangs. The dirt bikes are used to distribute the drugs the gangs sell and the juvie “peanuts” are used because the courts are more lenient when the defendant is under 18. Dirt bikes are also used to terrorize white folk in Baltimore’s Green Zone, the area surrounding the inner and outer harbors. It is not unusual to see hundreds of them riding in formation on a Saturday night down one of the main east-west drags along the Inner Harbor cruising at two to three times the speed limit and sounding like a stadium full of angry Africanized bees. Sometimes you just want to have that steel cable pulled up to about neck level across the street.
Young men on Dirt Bikes and Quads in the city should be avoided. They are breaking the law just being out on the street in these vehicles. It is fair to assume that they may be armed and dangerous.
Dirt Bikes and Quads in the city are a sure sign that a neighborhood is out-of-control.
Drive carefully. Yield the right-of-way. Avoid conflict. Keep moving.
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