"Jasper, we're goin' to the Promised Land!"
"The Promised Land......Baltimore?!?!?!"
Posted on 05/01/2019 5:23:13 AM PDT by knighthawk
BALTIMORE -- Juan Grant, who led protests across Baltimore demanding answers after the arrest and in-custody death of his best friend Freddie Gray in 2015, was shot dead on Saturday while driving to his grandmother's house in west Baltimore.
The 33-year-old's murder came on the fourth anniversary of Gray's funeral and the citywide riots that highlighted the frustration and distrust with the police department and the deep divide that exists to this day in Maryland's largest city.
A day after Grant's death, another gunman in the city's western district fired into a crowd of people enjoying an afternoon cookout, killing one man and injuring seven others.
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Can’t imagine why. Oh, yeah, maybe it’s due to around 12% of its students are proficient in math and reading.
It's what demographics do.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Without Johns Hopkins Hospital and University and the University of Maryland Medical Systems and Baltimore campus, the City of Baltimore would just collapse.
The UMMS has so much money that it paid the mayor $500,000 copies of her poorly written Healthy Holly childrens books, the final one of which has not even been written. They also had no-bid contracts with several of their board members. aaah, collusion.
All those doctors who work in Baltimore do not live there.
That's why Baltimore is suddenly back in the news.
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