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BALTIMORE, MD (WEAA) Dr. Kaye starts the show by discussing white supremacy and the overlap of race and class.
Halfway through the first hour, retired Baltimore Police Chief Melvin Russell joins Dr. Kaye to address the recent shootings of children throughout Baltimore City.
“ We have to come together because this isn’t going to get any better… the only thing that’s being empowered right now are those who are committing these atrocities…”
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Keller wasn t the only one who said they witnessed the officer striking his helmet on the man s head.
Hiller said she had seen the young Black man standing up to anyone trying to throw objects at police. Then, she described seeing about eight officers behind him while another officer ran up and bum-rushed him, grabbing him by the elbows and shoving them down.
She added that she saw one of the officers punch him in the face before the man was struck with the helmet. We were all screaming at them (officers) and trying to pull them out, but they started shooting rubber bullets at us. So anybody who was trying to pull it out and get him free got hit, and had to run, she said. I watched him be arrested and put into a patrol car and he had literally done nothing. He was trying to protect the police and he was standing, breathing just the way we are right now.
Wow, I didn t realize it was so cold, she says.
She turns and heads slowly down the sidewalk, being careful not to slip on the dusting of snow covering her path. Her left leg doesn t move as easily as her right. Pratt has a discernible limp, caused partly by the steel rod in her tibia but also because nerve damage makes it difficult to feel her toes.
She has been healing for six months, ever since a wooden projectile fired by a Toledo police officer shattered her leg as she was holding a sign in front of The Attic at the corner of Adams and 17th Street.
and the account that we re getting from lieutenant colonel melvin russell of the baltimore police department is that they observed the police observed a young man walking. they observed this via closed circuit camera. they observed him walking, carrying a handgun. they approached him. at that point, a short chasen sued on foot. now at some point according to police, the man s gun fell to the ground and that s where it discharged. but the police say they never discharged their weapons. they also say when the gun discharged nothing hit the suspect, that he was not injured. 10 those are two important points to remember. this was technically not a shooting. it was a gun incident where the gun fell and discharged that is according to police. this man did not suffer any injuries, they say. he did not want to be treated by a medical officer who arrived, but they sent in an ambulance just in case. and jim, he was arrested on a gun violation. but, again, the place that it happened and the time