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A poem by Tayo Oredein about unarmed Black and Brown men, women, and children being killed by the people who are supposed to protect.
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With the failure to indict another of the police officers involved in Freddie Gray’s murder, the criminal court system continues to fail to prosecute law enforcement officers for police killings. While some activists want to push for more of this type of justice, others are alarmed at the idea of placing hope in the criminal court system, a system that has always been stacked against people of color, poor people, and other marginalized people. Those activists want to push people to question what they consider justice and to move beyond punishment (in the form of criminal prosecutions and prison sentences) to accountability.
Read about what that accountability could look like and why it’s important here.
Photo Credit: Scottlum (Creative Commons)
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These riots didn’t destroy Baltimore. You did. You did with your fancy degrees and need to make Baltimore another cookie cutter city. Your need to promote Baltimore as city on the brink of some pseudo evolution that benefits your idea of what life should be. You ruined Baltimore by taking away manufacturing jobs. You ruined Baltimore by polluting our Chesapeake Bay, and slowly crippling our fishing industries. You ruined Baltimore by saying, “Cheaper rent, bigger places, and still can work in DC!” And how did you get those cheap places? By forcing people out of work, boarding up neighbourhoods, and then inviting outsiders from ivies in and offering people’s homes and memories for dirt cheap. You ruined Baltimore by mocking our working class history and making fun of Hon culture, distorting it into just a costume party and a reason to take pictures and share on Facebook. These folks out here in these streets have been marginalised beyond belief; forced to see the only city they’ve ever known slowly push them to the fringe of existence. These people in the streets, fighting for our fellow Baltimorean, are the real Baltimore. So excuse me if I’m just fine with some flipped over cars and a ruined CVS. Baltimore has been dying a slow death all of my life, but y'all were too busy chit chatting about the Wire to even notice. Y'all were too busy building community gardens everywhere except communities that needed them and creating jobs for transplants.
We’re tired man. We’re fucking tired. We ain’t the ones who destroyed Baltimore.
We Baltimore!
We Baltimore!
Open your eyes, motherfucker!
BREAKING:Freddie Gray’s death was a homicide, criminal charges being filed
Maryland state attorney Marilyn J. Mosby announced Friday morning that Freddie Gray’s death at the hands of Baltimore police was a homicide, and that criminal charges will be filed.
“Mr. Gray’s death was a homicide,” Mosby said at a press conference adding, there is “probable cause to file criminal charges.”
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