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2015-05-01 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Sharpton, Rawlings-Blake lead summit in Baltimore

[WBALTV] The civil rights hustler Al Sharpton
...Tawana Brawley's spiritual advisor...
and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake led a summit on improving relations between police and the community after the death of a man who was in police custody.

"There is a young man that has lost his life and we want to know why and we want to know what," Sharpton said.

Among those joining Thursday's meeting were NAACP President Cornell William Brooks and National Urban League President Marc Morial.

The meeting was held at New Shiloh Baptist Church, where the funeral for Freddie Gray was held Monday.

"It's from Charleston to North Charleston to Staten Island to hear. We have been involved in all of them. We are trying to act as though these are problems you can handle in isolation. There must be a national response," Sharpton said.

Sharpton said Baltimore can be a model for how to reform policing. Rawlings-Blake told the crowd that she tried to reform the Law Enforcement Bill of Rights in Annapolis during the last legislative session but ran into stiff opposition. She said she has been doing her part to effect change.

"I invited the Department of Justice to do collaborative reform. The only thing stronger than that is if they do a consent decree. Nobody wants the Department of Justice to come and take over our city," Rawlings-Blake said.

Gray died from a spinal injury a week after his April 12 arrest. Hours later, violence erupted

in the streets near the church.

Local clergymen gathered at New Shiloh that evening and staged an impromptu march through the streets to bring calm. Many of those clergymen attended Thursday's summit.

Posted by Fred 2015-05-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ] Top

#1 I wonder how all of this is going to play out once the autopsy and other witness info comes out.

You don't suppose the narrative will bury the truth and the lies about the kid in Florida and Missouri will be repeated ad nauseum every time a black man dies.

I admit there have been some very bad cases of police brutality but this one and the Ferguson thing have a smell of agenda rather than truth.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2015-05-01 00:22|| 2015-05-01 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 You don't suppose the narrative will bury the truth

Personally, I don't suppose. No more than I suppose that the Sun will raise in the East tomorrow.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-05-01 02:29|| 2015-05-01 02:29|| Front Page Top

#3 So where was the Racist Jesse Jackson?

How can you have a racebaiters convention and not invite Sharpton's racist twin?

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-05-01 03:59|| 2015-05-01 03:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Sign should read "I earn my living by being a race batter."

Posted by Daffy Grumble3124 2015-05-01 10:07|| 2015-05-01 10:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Al Sharpton, political gadfly and race hustler, engaging in his Sisyphian task to make himself relevant but alas he fails again--but not in his own mind.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-05-01 10:52|| 2015-05-01 10:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Exhume, ~~resuscitate~~, and reenact. We simply must get to the bottom of his.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-05-01 11:30|| 2015-05-01 11:30|| Front Page Top

#7 It appears 8 cops are being charged, and Big Al's problem is the city PD is 63% black. Hmmm.

Posted by Mugsy Glink 2015-05-01 11:45|| 2015-05-01 11:45|| Front Page Top

#8 The LOEs who are being ~~railroaded~~ ~~scapegoated~~ ~~lynched~~ indicted.

The media has been fueling a lot of this. There are a lot of opportunists in play who are getting face time on TV and who have their own personal agendas.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-05-01 12:25|| 2015-05-01 12:25|| Front Page Top

#9 You did notice nobody has any attention to spare for "Clinton Cash"?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-05-01 12:42|| 2015-05-01 12:42|| Front Page Top

#10 If the charges are not dropped, which I suspect they will be, move the legal proceedings to Texas.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-05-01 17:29|| 2015-05-01 17:29|| Front Page Top

#11 Yes, a change in venue would be better for everybody, Besoeker.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-05-01 19:40|| 2015-05-01 19:40|| Front Page Top

#12 The police union is already asking the prosecutor to recluse herself because of ties to the Gray family and her husband being on the city council.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-05-01 19:43|| 2015-05-01 19:43|| Front Page Top

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