You could almost hear the desperation in Wolf Blitzer’s voice. They really wanted something to break out. There was a single incident where someone threw a bottle of water at a line of policeman, and the guy was quickly subdued and pepper spray was dispersed. CNN ran that 30 second clip over and over again for hours while nothing else happened.
Well, this happened….
Group of young people, some self identifying as Bloods & Crips, moving crowds back from police line at curfew nears pic.twitter.com/TTM5rsPOk4
— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) April 29, 2015
That was pretty interesting.
And I give props to this woman:
After admitting that looting and rioting were not the best ways to represent the community and to seek answers, the protester, who identified herself only as Danielle, asked [MSNBC reporter Thomas] Roberts a question of her own.
“My question to you is, when we were out here protesting all last week for six days straight peacefully, there were no news cameras, there were no helicopters, there was no riot gear, and nobody heard us,” she said. “So now that we’ve burned down buildings and set businesses on fire and looted buildings, now all of the sudden everybody wants to hear us.”
And this is interesting, sad, and odd:
When the Baltimore Orioles host the Chicago White Sox at Camden Yards on Wednesday, it won’t really feel like a baseball game. There will be no cheering, and no booing. Nor will there be heckling, hot dogs, or beer. There will be no fans in the stadium at all, in fact. After riots in the city forced the postponement of games for two straight days, Major League Baseball announced that the Orioles will play on Wednesday, but the game will be closed to the public.
For a sport that takes significant pride in its history, this may be a particularly sad first: An MLB official told me that after conferring with a historian and several longtime veterans of the game, the league was unaware of any prior examples in which fans have been deliberately barred from attending a game.
Interestingly, they are going to do the whole, uh, nine yards. The National Anthem, the 7th inning stretch, everything.
I’ll update this post with a picture when the game begins.