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Just after 7 a.m. on a stifling morning, one day before his city's July 4 holiday celebrations, Baltimore's mayor dashed around the plaza outside city hall. Clad in a white polo shirt and sneakers, Mayor Brandon Scott, 39, ran from point to point, maneuvering between camera crews and a series of tightly-scheduled nationally televised interviews. He'd catch his breath, handle a phone call and, at one point, sprang back inside the building briefly in between appearances.Scott is a former city council member who previously represented one of the northernmost sections of a city with a troublingly stubborn history of gun.