BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore police have arrested more than 60 people during a protest after participants blocked lanes on an interstate in the city.
The numbers were initially around 20, but police spokesman Lt. Jarron Jackson later updated the figures to 55 adults and 10 juveniles arrested when protesters blocked traffic on Interstate 83 on Saturday. He said the charges will be failure to obey and illegally walking on a highway.
Social media video showed people forming a double line with their arms linked across the road. One participant wore a shirt referring to Freddie Gray, the man who was fatally injured in police custody.
Organizers say they want a civilian review board created for police investigations. They also want 10 percent of the city’s police budget reallocated for community programs.
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Good idea.
All lives matter, and you can’t trust the government. Right, conservatives?
Good for them. Wish I was there. …and also that charges are dismissed.
For those to whom it is relevant, the 12th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar is the Yahrzeit (the anniversary of the death) of Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. This year, the 12th is July 17-18 (the day begins at sunset the day before—that would be this evening). On their Yahrzeit, I light a candle for Andrew and Michael and for James Earl Chaney, the young man who was working with them and was murdered along with them. I light the 24 hour candle for them and for Emmitt Till, for Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins, the little girls murdered in the bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church, for Medgar Evers and for all of the other victims of racist murders — African-Americans as well as men and women of all races killed as workers for civil and voting and equal rights for all Americans. G-d bless each of them and their families. May there be no more.