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Baltimore’s “Safe Streets” Director Fatally Shot While Visiting Housing Project
https://populist.press ^ | Tuesday January 19, 2021 7:19 AM | Staff

Posted on 01/19/2021 5:32:25 AM PST by Red Badger

Dante Barksdale, an anti-gun violence activist who worked as the director of Baltimore’s Safe Streets program, is dead after being shot in the head. According to the Baltimore Sun, Safe Streets outreach workers “mediate disputes in the hopes of de-escalating conflicts.” “They also lead public education campaigns and work closely …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; murder; safestreets; shooting
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1 posted on 01/19/2021 5:32:25 AM PST by Red Badger
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Baltimore 'Safe Streets' director Dante Barksdale fatally shot in the head while visiting housing project
2 posted on 01/19/2021 5:34:28 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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Irony.

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3 posted on 01/19/2021 5:35:11 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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Oh the irony....


4 posted on 01/19/2021 5:35:23 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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What is there to say? Perhaps: “if guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns”? Or maybe: “if only he was carrying The Equalizer he’d be alive today”? Or: “when seconds count the police are minutes away”?


5 posted on 01/19/2021 5:37:40 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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Maybe it’s time to refund the police, especially in the democrat-run hellholes.


6 posted on 01/19/2021 5:37:58 AM PST by Blennos ( )
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For anyone else curious, from 2019...

Baltimore ending the year with 32% homicide clearance rate, one of the lowest in three decades

Bet it hasn't improved.

7 posted on 01/19/2021 5:38:03 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: Red Badger

Bwahahahaha.

Think I’ll end my news reading for the day on a high note!!


8 posted on 01/19/2021 5:38:09 AM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Lurker; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Trueblackman

Well, it *is* Baltimordor after all....


9 posted on 01/19/2021 5:38:32 AM PST by sauropod ("No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." - Mark Twain)
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I wonder if Bella Pelosi’s Mafia friends were somehow involved.
10 posted on 01/19/2021 5:38:53 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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I’d like to say this makes me sad... I’d like to say it, but I can’t.


11 posted on 01/19/2021 5:39:22 AM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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Well... that did not work out too well


12 posted on 01/19/2021 5:39:36 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents{}Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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Another Democrat-run city disaster.


13 posted on 01/19/2021 5:40:22 AM PST by From The Deer Stand
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Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.


14 posted on 01/19/2021 5:41:02 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Another senseless Covid-19 death..............................


15 posted on 01/19/2021 5:41:27 AM PST by Red Badger (TREASON is the REASON for the SLEAZIN'.................................)
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16 posted on 01/19/2021 5:41:46 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Baltimore
17 posted on 01/19/2021 5:42:21 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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Defund the social workers.


18 posted on 01/19/2021 5:43:01 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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I’d like to say this makes me sad... I’d like to say it, but I can’t.

I read the article. He seemed to be one of the good guys. Sad.

19 posted on 01/19/2021 5:43:03 AM PST by KevinB (''... and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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Baltimorons..............................


20 posted on 01/19/2021 5:43:42 AM PST by Red Badger (TREASON is the REASON for the SLEAZIN'.................................)
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