Posted on 07/06/2013 8:19:52 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
On a day when at least four people were shot in Baltimore before dinner time — two of them fatally —hundreds of city men took to the streets in a planned 10-mile march along North Avenue, shutting down portions of the thoroughfare, to protest the recent spike in gun violence.
"There's a war going on in our streets" that "starts and ends with our young black men," City Councilman Brandon Scott told the crowd, which included the mayor and police commissioner. "We're going to take our city back. … We can no longer stand on the backs of the women."
Scott and family friend Munir Bahar, who was in trouble as a kid but turned his life around to mentor other city kids, organized the 300 Man March. It was modeled after the 1995 Million Man March in Washington D.C., a massive show of solidarity among African-American men.
The idea was to stir Baltimore's men to action in their own neighborhoods and homes to stop the cycle of violence so frequently driven by drugs and gangs. While many have called on authorities to stem the tide, this was the first time the larger community has come together to fight back.
More than 40 people have been shot since summer began, with 20 of them struck in a single weekend. On Friday, at least four more people were shot by late afternoon. They were homicide numbers 119 and 120 this year.
In an impassioned speech before the march, Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts implored those within earshot to take action, saying repeatedly that this wasn't about numbers for him, but about faces.
There are "just too many black faces dying on the streets," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Ya think?
I’ll take these people seriously when they stop stomping all over the right of the people to keep and bear arms and shoot back at the vermin.
On a day when at least four people were shot in Baltimore before dinner time -- two of them fatally -- hundreds of city men took to the streets in a planned 10-mile march along North Avenue, shutting down portions of the thoroughfare, to protest the recent spike in gun violence... City Councilman Brandon Scott... and family friend Munir Bahar, who was in trouble as a kid but turned his life around to mentor other city kids, organized the 300 Man March. It was modeled after the 1995 Million Man March in Washington D.C., a massive show of solidarity among African-American men. More than 40 people have been shot since summer began, with 20 of them struck in a single weekend.
yup
I believe Baltimore is the heroin capital of the US..
You mean someone actually said it???
I take it Brandon is not white.
Well, it’s a start,maybe. I wish them luck, their community is falling apart.
If Obama had a son....
He’d be another dead gangsta wannabe.
And another, and another, and another
Baltimore is one scary town and I live in the city of Cleveland.
You would have to be whole at one point to fall apart.
They gonna march.
Now ain’t that just special?
Philly is beautiful this time of year as well. /s
“Baltimore is one scary town -——”
Great ballpark though.
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Well gee that’s so cute—all fired up and no where to go but by God they be marching-—guys take a breath—this will stop when black America quits embracing or tolerating the culture of rampant illegitimate child birth, the culture of contempt for education, the culture of really moronic gang banging, the culture of professional victim. I’m pretty sure this march and your outrage will make you feel better but it has all of the impact of an Obama promise-—short fuse weak bang....
If you have no ideas or solutions, MARCH!
It makes you look good for a couple minutes. Then you go back to sitting on your butt.
What they need to do is KICK butts instead of sitting on their own.
In one way, Baltimore is almost my favorite city. I love Ft. McHenry and the Edgar Allen Poe sites, among other things. But... and I grew up in the heart of a major city — I have never been as scared as two different times in Baltimore. I’m lucky that nothing happened, but boy..
About the only city I have been to that I more scary than Baltimore is Philadelphia. Don’t get me wrong. I t
live in Cleveland. In the city. It can be scary in some parts, but none does ghetto like Philly and Baltimore.
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