A roundup for #BaltimoreRiots

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Baltimore set for ‘victory rally’ as officers charged

Thousands expected to attend march, celebrating charges against six police officers over custodial death of a black man.

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Clashes in US city Baltimore after Freddie Gray funeral

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National Guard, curfew activated amid confrontations after memorial for black man who died of injuries in custody.

The single image from Baltimore that captures a city trying to heal

Images of the chaos and violence that engulfed Baltimore, as police and rioters clashed in recent days, have been splashed across TV screens and newspaper front pages But on social media, it is the image of a young black boy offering a bottle of water to an officer donning riot gear that has moved thousands of people to share and comment. See also: Why the kids on the streets of Baltimore are fed up Read more… More about U.S., Us World, Us,

 Mashable! / by Christopher Mille… /

These charts say all you need to know about why there are riots in Baltimore

More than half of the households in Freddie Gray’s Baltimore neighborhood earned less than $25,000 a year, and more than one in five adults in that neighborhood are unemployed. Read the res

Boing Boing / by Xeni Jardin /

Journalists targeted with violence during unrest in Baltimore

Mashable! by Jason Abbruzzese

Photos: Violence erupts in Baltimore

 Mashable! by Dustin Drankoski

 

‘We know too many Freddie Grays': Packed funeral mixes mourning and activism

BALTIMORE — Some of the speakers at the funeral for Freddie Gray — who died in police custody in Baltimore on April 19 — wanted the service to be non-political. But the ceremony quickly evolved into a mix of mourning and call to action, and the crowd didn’t seem to mind

Man who recorded video of Freddie Gray’s arrest is arrested, detained by Baltimore police

…is the man who, after Gray’s death, released cell phone footage of Gray’s arrest. He later told the Baltimore Sun that Baltimore police officers tackled the 25-year-old victim like “a piece of origami.” Read the res

Boing Boing / by Xeni Jardin /

Turkish Mayor Berates State Department’s Marie Harf for Silence on Baltimore Unrest

Melih Gokcek’s Twitter posts were an effort to highlight what he saw as hypocrisy shown by the United States government and media in taking other countries to task for their human rights lapses.

NYT > Turkey / by By CEYLAN YEGINSU /

How Baltimore’s Police and Poverty Fueled A Youth Revolt

BALTIMORE, Md. — West Baltimore, the site of most of the unrest that’s erupted in this city in the wake of the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, has all the staples of a forgotten, neglected urban neighborhood: liquor stores, storefront churches, check-cashing joints and vacant buildings. Lots of vacant buildings. In fact, riding into Baltimore’s Penn Station, the first sight for Amtrak passenger

 The Intercept / by Juan Thompson /

Baltimore: Photos of civil unrest after funeral for Freddie Gray, young black man who died after arrest

Seven police officers were injured in street violence today when people at a protest threw bricks, broke windows, looted businesses and burned cop cars after Gray’s funeral. Read the rest

Boing Boing / by Xeni Jardin

Anti-Brutality Protesters Battle Police and News Media in Baltimore

The Intercept by Juan Thompson

For the second time in five months, an American city erupted in protests and unrest following a police killing of an unarmed black person. On Saturday evening, scores of people took to the streets of Baltimore to protest the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray in police custody a fortnight ago.

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