‘The Wire’ Creator David Simon: The Riots Are ‘An Affront’ To Gray’s Memory

David Simon, creator and executive producer of the HBO series "Treme," participates in a panel discussion at the HBO Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. (AP ... David Simon, creator and executive producer of the HBO series "Treme," participates in a panel discussion at the HBO Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) MORE LESS
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The creator of the HBO show “The Wire,” David Simon, denounced the violence that some displayed while protesting the death of Freddie Gray, which occurred while he was in police custody.

Simon, a former crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun posted the letter to his website on Monday after the situation in Baltimore escalated.

But now — in this moment — the anger and the selfishness and the brutality of those claiming the right to violence in Freddie Gray’s name needs to cease. There was real power and potential in the peaceful protests that spoke in Mr. Gray’s name initially, and there was real unity at his homegoing today. But this, now, in the streets, is an affront to that man’s memory and a dimunition of the absolute moral lesson that underlies his unnecessary death.

If you can’t seek redress and demand reform without a brick in your hand, you risk losing this moment for all of us in Baltimore. Turn around. Go home. Please.

Read his full post here.

h/t Mother Jones

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