10,000 Strong Peacefully Protest In Downtown Baltimore, Media Only Reports The Violence...

[babylonsister]

http://blackwestchester.com/2015/04/27/10000-peacefully-protest-bmore/


10,000 Strong Peacefully Protest In Downtown Baltimore, Media Only Reports The Violence & Arrest of Dozens

Posted on April 27, 2015 by AJ Woodson in Across The Nation

“A number of protesters were concerned that Baltimore—nicknamed “Charm City”—was being treated unfairly in the media after the trouble on Saturday. Baltimore was not out of control,” said Karen DeCamp, a director at the Greater Homewood Community Corporation, a nonprofit advocacy organization, who was demonstrating outside the funeral home, Sunday. “Baltimore was not burning. A very small number of people made some trouble, and it was completely blown out of proportion.”

10,000 people from across the country peacefully protested in Baltimore in support of the seeking of justice of the death of Freddie Gray. Despite the fact that 100 of the 10,000 acted up and approximately 35 people were arrested after the peaceful protest, (that’s about 1%), much of the mainstream media used attention grabbing words in their headlines like ‘Protest Turns Destructive, (USA Today)’ ‘Scenes of Chaos In Baltimore… (NY Times), Dozens Arrested After Protest Turns Violent (WBAL TV). One website BreitBart.com’s headlines read: 1,000 Black Rioters In Baltimore Smash Police Cars, Attack Motorists In Frenzied Protest.

The truth is you had 10,000 plus people come together in unity in support of the fight for justice for Freddie Gray. While the numbers vary, 100 or so were the ones you saw acting up on the news and the 35 persons who were arrested were the ones you read about. But reporting that won’t bring in the ratings that attract a heavy advertising revenue.

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What they don’t report was there were, “Muslims, Christians, Jews, Blacks, Whites, Asians, Young and Old, Rich and Poor people all united and standing harmoniously against common oppression,” shared one of the organizers Frank ‘Sha’ Francois. The demonstration was sponsored by a wide coalition of social justice groups, including Malik Shabazz of Black Lawyers For Justice (BLFJ), Carl Dix of Stop Mass Incarceration (SMIN) and brother Ted Freedomfighter Sutton of Sutton House, just to name a few who came in support of their brothers and sisters in Baltimore. Support for justice of Freddie Gray, 25, who was arrested one week ago, in West Baltimore. Who died on April 19th, from injuries sustained while he was in police custody.

[realFedUp]

1. Great

Maybe they should be home with their kids....

[babylonsister]

4. Are you fed up with peaceful protests? That WAS the point. nt

[NOLALady]

7. Their kids were probably with them.

[still_one]

8. I don't know if you are sarcastic or not, but that was the argument used when people joined the

civil rights movement, and ended up dead:

Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Jonathan Myrick Daniels
Rev. James Reeb
Juliette Hampton Morgan
Clyde Kennard
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Vernon Dahmer
Oneal Moore
Harry And Harriette Moore

[NYC_SKP]

11. You're cute!

Hey, I'm not doing anything tomorrow.
Want to get together?

[hrmjustin]

2. Rioting in an American city is always going to lead the news.

[liberal N proud]

3. I did see a report calling the protests last night, mostly peaceful with isolated violence

Have not watched news since this morning.

[AuntPatsy]

5. kicking

I realized what was happening earlier, a concerted effort was underway to label, a fight for public opinion began early with announcement by police, watching the "loopy" media doing its usual was telling... The anger on DU from some proves such methods work well...

[justiceischeap]

6. And what isn't being reported is that the violence Saturday

was most likely started by predominately white Orioles fans tossing everything from racial slurs to bar stools at the protesters.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6576943

[marym625]

10. Thank you for bringing this to my attention

Very important great post

[Calista241]

9. If it bleeds, it leads.

Apparently, nobody gives a shit about legit protesters anymore.

[Skittles]

17. remember when a million protesters stopped the war?

oh wait

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. It's like the coverage of the Whittier quake a few years ago....

One old brick wall fell and damaged some cars and the media kept running those pictures from all angles making it look like all of California was rubble. I got calls from all over asking if I was okay. I had a hanging plant swing a little. That's it.

[certainot]

13. meanwhile, like with all peaceful protests of magnitude, the rw radio asshats

go on all day egging on the cops and local authorities and vigilantes and blowing any violence out of proportion.

same with OWS, ferguson, and on and on, and making excuses for the brutality and turning on the racists.

americans ought to be protesting those stations and the 90 universities that rent their sports logos to them to help them sell that racism and divisiveness and lies.

[Half-Century Man]

14. It is a matter of what grabs more attention.

A riot, which is fairly rare, grabs an audience's attention faster and more engagingly than African American's smoldering resentment for nearly two hundred years of broken promises; which is as ingrained and common place in the United States as Coca Cola.

[morningfog]

15. Proof of the effectiveness.

[6000eliot]

16. Do you know how difficult it is to find a non-corporate, non-right-wing source

for news on the protests? It took me almost an hour to find a streaming source on Youtube. I refuse to watch corporate media ever again.

[lovemydog]

18. k&r

[Cha]

19. mahalo babylonsistah.. Of course, that's what the UScorpmedia focuses on.

[Quantess]

20. It's nice to hear that positive, non-violent protesting is happening,

but I wouldn't set foot in Baltimore. No way. I don't ever want to go to Baltimore, after seeing some of the videos.