Sunday, May 10, 2015

At some point, you run out of victims------Thin line separates Detroit, Baltimore

Thin line separates Detroit, Baltimore
A man is cuffed, loaded into the back of a Baltimore police van and then dies from a spine injury while in custody.
Eight days later, shots ring out from a federal agent's gun in a house on Detroit's west side, killing a suspect in an armed robbery.
While Baltimore erupted in rioting, Detroit has avoided violence.
Yet these two impoverished industrial cities share many traits that can contribute to civil unrest — high unemployment, lingering distrust of police and strained race relations, among others.
"It's fragile," said Malik Shabazz, director of the Marcus Garvey Movement/Black Panther Nation, who in the past helped defuse irate crowds.
"You have anger, pain and the frustration of powerlessness, abject poverty, a rotten education and lack of opportunity."
Anger followed the shooting of Terrance Kellom in Detroit, but protests were mostly peaceful with leaders calling for calm, repeating "Detroit is not Baltimore."...
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