Don't you white folks get it?
#BaltimoreUprising is happening because black people know what happened to #FreddieGray could happen to them.
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Black folks in
#Baltimore know#FreddieGray isn't an exception. There's a long history of this level of police violence. They've had enough.
When a group of high school children planned a protest yesterday, police aggressively went after them, trapping them and firing on them.
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That the rounds were nonlethal is inconsequential. Police fired on unarmed CHILDREN to assert their authority. That's how bad things are.
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#BaltimoreUprising that followed was the result of an overpoliced people determining that riot was the only voice they had left. - Show replies
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@seanjjordan@EagleEye1906 yeah. Not a good day to defend thugs. Looting doesn't solve anything.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@seanjjordan Huh??? Sure doesn't look like they stopped them.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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