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POLICE BRUTALITY :
UNITED STATES: CITIES: BALTIMORE, MARYLAND:
A Bloody History of Police Brutality in Baltimore
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A Bloody History of Police Brutality in Baltimore
By: Nick Alexandrov
Posted: May 4 2015 3:00 AM
The Root
http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/2015/05/
a_bloody_history_of_police_brutality_in_baltimore.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/pm4tpkh
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Look back to 1997, when Christian Parenti explained that police violence
is soaring. By mid-August of [that] year Baltimore police had already shot
more than 70 civilians, he added. It was the dawn of the zero tolerance
era.
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The approach directed cops to stop, frisk and arrest vast numbers of young
black and Hispanic men for minor offenses, Jeffrey Rosen explained. The
citys population was 640,000 in 2005. There were more than 100,000 arrests
that year.
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And violence broke out in March of 1980 when an off-duty police detective,
without warning, shot and paralyzed a 17-year-old black youth, the
Associated Press reported. The officer later said he thought the youth,
Ja-Wan McGee, was going to rob a pizza parlor, but young McGee was taking
a cigarette lighter out of his pocket.
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Look back even further to August 1978, when the Baltimore Afro-American
broke a story about a trio of white cops. They issued black teenager Derek
Copeland a green pass giving the youth permission to walk neighborhood
streetssimilar, the paper observed, to the one issued by the South African
government led by John Vorster.
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And the seeds of violence were there on the early morning of June 27,
1969, when Helen Smith sat on a stoop with Donald Best. Patrolman Alvin
Nachman approached with his dog, and an order: Hold the noise down. No
neighbors had complained. The dog attacked Smith first, and the officer
maced her as she tried to fight off the animal. She got 75 stitches, and
Best got 32 to close the dog-bite wounds in his side and hip, the Afro
disclosed. Both Mrs. Smith and Mr. Best were arrested and charged with
disturbing the peace. They were both forced to spend the night in jail
after treatment for their wounds.
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But violence had hit Baltimore five years earlier. Raymond Petty drove
there from Halifax, Va., to visit his sister Hazel in June 1964. She was
ill and the outlook was not good. Raymond Petty was in a mild car accident
after arriving. His brother Louis was at the scene; the cops arrived. The
Afro described how policemen bludgeoned Louis although they had arrested
him illegally, and continued to beat him in a patrol wagon while
transporting him to the police station. He was dead two days later.
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And before that, in 1956. There were five police killings in four months.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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