Posted on 07/19/2017 2:07:08 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A 44-year-old mother might seem an unusual visitor on the drug corners of Baltimore, but Erricka Bridgeford has shown up for weeks to make her pitch for peace. Forget your grudges for one weekend, she urges the young men she finds.
Bridgeford and other neighborhood leaders are drumming up support for a three-day ceasefire the first weekend of August to quell Baltimore’s violence. She admits that such peace is a tall order for a city that’s seen 188 killings this year.
Organizers aim to stop the shooting from Friday, Aug. 4, through Sunday, Aug. 6, with a unified and blunt message: “Nobody kill anybody.”
The campaign urges people to put aside their guns and join weekend events for healing, from a peace rally Friday evening to a vigil Sunday where participants will read the names of every person killed in 2017.
“The Baltimore Ceasefire was not declared by any one organization,” organizers wrote on their website. “This ceasefire is the product of Baltimore residents not only being exhausted by homicides, but believing that Baltimore can have a murder-free weekend if everyone takes responsibility.”
More than 600 people have pledged to keep the peace, they wrote. Among them are some of the young men Bridgeford has met on the corners.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Gee, if only the mayor had said something along those lines.
a whole weekend, wow.
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It is hard to overcome the law of the jungle.
Oh my goodness......
I will take the pledge, gladly. I will pledge not to shoot anybody this weekend.
Question is, how many of the feral young black men who are responsible for the vast majority of shootings will be able to restrain themselves???
I’m sure the Muslims in London will just stop too if you ask them nicely.
As if there was honor among thieves or f**ks to give.
You know what wouldn’t be a bad idea? If all of those Baltimore moms and other concerned citizens stayed out on the streets 24/7. Told the thugs to get their *sses home.
I am with you on this one, Dilbert!! I also will pledge not to kill anyone in Baltimore this weekend. I bet we could get quite a few FReepers to sign up for this. We might be deporable, but we CAN skip a weekend of violence for the sake of peace in Baltimore.
But don’t mention the 10 Commandments, because that’s “religious.”
should be saying:
hey playa, nobody be killin anybody
Time for a timely ping.
This was on radio shows this morning.
Just like candlelight vigils. Insipidly useless.
....Nobody kill anybody...
This sounds like something g out of a Mad Max movie.
Kinda easy to go and pop a cap or two in some gang bangers to start a cease fire war
“Ok we didn’t kill anybody this weekend. Now what do we get?”
I promise to not kill anyone in Baltimore this weekend provided a money order for 500 bucks is sent to the following address:
Grace G Grace
123 Unicorn Way
Fantasy Land, USA 77777
Note: Paypal also accepted
LOL. Reminds me of the story of the Baltimore mom, who saw her son on TV rioting at the Freddie Gray riots. She went down there and pulled him out of there.
This touches on how it is, that the feral black youth become feral in the first place.
How many at the Peace Rally?
Seriously, I wish them luck. Blaming Whitey isn’t going to get them where they need to go, stuff like this, is. I hope it works, I hope it’s just a start.
</gramma nazzi
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