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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Thu Apr 30, 2015, 02:04 AM Apr 2015

Freddie Gray: Protests Across Us As Baltimore Is Forced To Free 100 Suspects

Marches in New York, Boston, Ferguson and Washington, while authorities in Baltimore back down after holding people for days without charge

Thursday 30 April 2015 01.09 EDT

Protests over the death in Baltimore police custody of Freddie Gray spread across the US overnight as the city at the centre of the storm used national guard troops to help maintain a curfew and authorities were forced into an apparent backdown after holding suspected rioters for days without charge.

Gray died last weekend in Baltimore with a severed spine after apparently being injured in police custody.

Baltimore on Monday had been the scene of widespread rioting and destruction but on Wednesday night the protests, while large, were mostly good-natured protests during the day.

People dispersed in the lead-up to the 10pm curfew, instigated on Tuesday by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. It was enforced by 1,000 extra police officers and almost 2,000 national guard troops brought into the city after Governor Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency on Monday night.

Also on Wednesday, after a flurry of legal challenge more than 100 people were freed from police custody, having been been held since Monday under an effective suspension by Hogan of the writ of habeas corpus – the right to be released from an arrest that is without lawful cause.

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/30/freddie-gray-protests-across-us-as-baltimore-is-forced-to-free-100-suspects

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Freddie Gray: Protests Across Us As Baltimore Is Forced To Free 100 Suspects (Original Post) Purveyor Apr 2015 OP

"Good-natured protests"? Flying Squirrel Apr 2015 #1

They were mostly good-natured during the day. So was the Keene Pumpkin Festival. Recursion Apr 2015 #2

+ criminals Oktober Apr 2015 #3

Oakland too ellenrr Apr 2015 #4

Denver: dixiegrrrrl Apr 2015 #5

Flying Squirrel

(3,041 posts)

1. "Good-natured protests"?

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Thu Apr 30, 2015, 05:37 AM

Apr 2015

Who writes this stuff?

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

2. They were mostly good-natured during the day. So was the Keene Pumpkin Festival.

Reply to Flying Squirrel (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 30, 2015, 05:43 AM

Apr 2015

Hell, my mom went to the pumpkin festival. But large crowds + alcohol + poorly trained cops = riot.

A lot of people compare Baltimore to the largely-white riots after sporting events, and I think that's totally fair, especially if you continue the logic: this wasn't a "statement", it was pretty much just a riot like the Pumpkin Festival.

Oktober

(1,488 posts)

3. + criminals

Reply to Recursion (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 30, 2015, 06:06 AM

Apr 2015

Can't forget the secret ingredient...

ellenrr

(3,864 posts)

4. Oakland too

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Thu Apr 30, 2015, 06:52 AM

Apr 2015

4/27 -OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Roughly 100 protesters gathered in the vicinity of Broadway and 14th Street in Oakland Monday evening in solidarity with demonstrators in Baltimore, carrying signs that say “Rest in Power Freddie Gray.”
Oakland police and California Highway Patrol Officers are currently on the scene.
As the group moved around downtown Oakland, around 7:10 p.m CHP officers blocked an on-ramp in the vicinity of Interstate Highway 980 and the interchange with Interstate Highway 880 in an effort to prevent demonstrators from walking onto the highway.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/04/27/protesters-take-to-oakland-streets-over-death-of-baltimore-man-freddie-gray/

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

5. Denver:

Reply to ellenrr (Reply #4)

Thu Apr 30, 2015, 07:02 AM

Apr 2015

Denver police use pepper spray on downtown protesters; 11 arrested

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28016764/protesters-march-near-jail-downtown-denver

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