Q:
tell me about the riots
A:
the riots
ah
the riots were an explosion of what many would call justified rage and anger and the ignoring of peaceful protests and decades of injustice. the culmination of that. and the fact that this is happewning all over the country, not just baltimore. a national trend. but baltimore is leading the way in national lack of accountability, with law enforcement and governemnt officials. for years, police have been beating ppl, maiming ppl, it was a perfect storm of ppl protesting for years. police killings along with apartheid conditions and economic injustice
the image of the riots is a young man taking a police barricade and smaSHING IT THROUGH A police car window. his name was alan bullock. and his family encouraged him to turn himself in to the authorities. and he got charged . the image of him doing it was captured in the news media. it was the front page of the baltimore sun the next day, the only large daily circulation newspaper in baltimore.
that image, the vast majority of the protests were non-violent, the fact that one image is the one the media fixated on, says a lot. also, when he turned himself, his bail was 500,000 dollars, far more than the officers who have been charged with killing freddie gray. says a lot.
it speaks to the injustices of the criminal justice system.
Q:
whats the main thing you wanna say?
A:
fuck bitches, get money
