Baltimore’s largest protest of Freddie Gray’s death draws hundreds
Source: Washington Post
BALTIMORE — Chanting their desire to shut this city down, several hundred protesters marched Saturday through a downtrodden neighborhood to the district police station where Freddie Gray arrived unconscious after he was subdued by arresting police almost two weeks ago.
The demonstrators were met by metal barricades at the Western District and a row of police officers wearing their everyday uniforms, with none of the riot gear police often break out when anticipating confrontation.
It was this city’s largest protest since Gray, 25, died from a severe injury to his spine a week after the April 12 arrest. Since then, his name has been added to the roster of black men who have died in recent months in encounters with police, including Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., Eric Garner in Staten Island and Walter Scott in North Charleston, S.C.
As they marched from the Western District police station toward the Inner Harbor area and, perhaps, to Camden Yards, where the Orioles were playing the Boston Red Sox, there was virtually no evidence of police presence. Children on bicycles raced ahead of the protesters, doing wheelies. As the march turned onto North Avenue, four lanes of traffic backed up behind them.
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Not only am I a native, I came back years later with Refuse and Resist!, if only because we had no one in DC. 
This could be a transformational moment, moire so than Ferguson, even, because people know Baltimore.
So I guess NYC and LA are "excuses for towns", too?
