The “Weekend Update” segment on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” made fun of former Ravens player Ray Lewis for his comments about Baltimore. Co-host Colin Jost stated, “former Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis spoke out against the violence in Baltimore, saying ‘violence
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” did a mock depiction of the Baltimore Orioles game played to an empty stadium earlier this week. The sketch makes references to the awkwardness of playing a game with no fans, such as a kiss cam
Police officers across the country are shocked by Friday’s news that six Baltimore cops were charged with the murder of Freddie Gray. Many worry that they will be prevented from doing their job going forward.
The man who police and fire officials say cut a fire hose, preventing firefighters from putting out the flames engulfing a CVS pharmacy in downtown Baltimore last week, has now been tracked down and charged with that crime.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) argued that the police officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death could not get a fair trial in Baltimore on Saturday’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine” on the Fox News Channel. Clarke was asked if he
Former prosecutor and Fox News Channel host Judge Jeanine Pirro stated that “we all need to step back and let the justice system take its course” in the trial of six officers in the death of Freddie Gray on Saturday’s
Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Clark dismissed conflict of interest allegations against prosecutor Marilyn Mosby as a “typical front,” but said “people should be concerned, are the police going to continue to work?” on Saturday’s “Up with Steve Kornacki” on
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said there is a crisis in relations between African-Americans and law enforcement in an excerpt of an interview with “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd aired on Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Up with Steve Kornacki.”
During a large rally in front of Baltimore’s City Hall, a young man introduced as “Brother Rose,” in winding and sometimes incoherent speech, praised the burning of a CVS store at the corner of Pennsylvania and North Avenues. “America didn’t care until we started affecting things they profit from… What we saying, ‘Let’s get you out of our communities.’”
Following in the Bay area tradition of Occupy, social justice, and union operative campaigns led by leftist community organizers, hundreds of protestors flooded the streets of Oakland on May Day eve, echoing rioters in Baltimore with progressively violent and destructive actions.
New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that when it comes to poverty “the problem is not that we don’t care. We don’t know what to do” on Friday’s “PBS NewsHour.” Brooks stated, “The problem is not that we don’t care.
Columnist Pat Buchanan praised President Obama’s speech after the riots in Baltimore, but said that the charges brought against six police officers in Freddie Gray’s death were “overdone” on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” Buchanan said, “after the riot started, the president
Dayvon Love co-founder of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle and member of the Baltimore United Coalition stated “Baltimore just shows the sophistication of white supremacy, and how it operates” on Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC. Love said, “I think people
CNN reporter Miguel Marquez asked a police officer “are we under martial law?” during an argument with law enforcement while covering arrests after Baltimore’s 10 pm curfew on Friday. Marquez, while interviewing someone who had been arrested, was ordered to
Author Ben Stein dubbed Toya Graham, the woman who prevented her son from rioting in Baltimore, “Rosa Parks for 2015” on Saturday’s “The Cost of Freedom” on the Fox News Channel. Stein said, “I think she is Rosa Parks for
Three groups with seemingly divergent viewpoints came together in Dallas to peacefully express their views about the situation in Baltimore. Peaceful, respectful, but a smaller than expected turn-out was how the #DallasToBaltimore demonstration went in Dallas on Friday night, May 1. The groups gathered to show solidarity with Baltimore, a city torched by the incendiary behavior of its residents in the wake of the tragic death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray.
A group of Baltimore police started a GoFundMe fundraising page to help defray legal costs for the six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, but after only 40 minutes the web site pulled the page claiming it violated the its terms of use.
“Mike,” who was identified as a Baltimore Police Officer who knows the six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, said that police were instructed “we’re not making any arrests, we’re going to let them destroy property” on Friday’s
Much of the black community in America is dying, which is the “death,” and lacking true leadership and solutions across a wide range of issues, which is the “dearth.”
By Thursday and Friday, protests in the name of Baltimore prisoner Freddie Gray had spread to a number of other cities across the country. In some cases, the violence also followed along with the protests and arrests were made.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) declared the charges brought against six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray “George Zimmerman and the Duke Lacrosse case all over again” and said “these cops are political prisoners,” offered up as human
Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that if a political ideology can be blamed for Baltimore’s schools “it is the ideology of liberals” on Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. After talking about the problem of fatherlessness in Baltimore, Krauthammer
Richard Shipley, Freddie Gray’s stepfather, said that Gray’s family is “satisfied” with the charges brought against six officers in Gray’s death and that “the last thing that Freddie would want is to see the hard-working people of Baltimore lose their
Michael Davey, an Attorney with the Fraternal Order of Police declared, “these officers did nothing wrong” and that charges brought against six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray are driven by “the publicity in this case” and “politics”
President Obama said that the officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death are “are also entitled to due process and rule of law” and that “it is my practice not to comment on the legal processes involved. That would not be
