WATCH: Baltimore Prosecutor Charges Six Police Officers, Calls Freddie Gray’s Death a “Homicide”
“To the people of Baltimore and the demonstrators across America: I heard your call for ‘no justice, no peace.’“
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Baltimore today was everywhere in 1967-68. We have to remember that these issues of going abroad to fight enemies leaves our internal problems festering and they can blow at any time. So history repeats.
Tom Hayden, a founder of Students for a Democratic Society and major organizer of demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Watch his interview on Democracy Now! today.
How many black males were hurt after we protested peacefully for Trayvon Martin? But now we have their attention. Now there’s a state of emergency. So if this had to happen for them to get a clue, then it has to happen.
A Baltimore resident protesting the killing of Freddie Gray in police custody. Watch Democracy Now! for on the ground coverage of the protests in Baltimore.
You can replace property. You can’t replace a life.
Miriam, a Baltimore resident protesting the killing of Freddie Gray in police custody. Hear more voices like Miriam’s in the Democracy Now! report from the streets of Baltimore.
I was actually born a few blocks away from where the [arrest of Freddie Gray] occurred, so it really touches me personally. You know, there have been years of neglect — not only of West Baltimore, but all over the inner city of Baltimore. And I think that the chickens are coming home to roost.
Lawrence Bell, former Baltimore City Council president. Watch him discuss last night’s violent unrest with the Reverend Jesse Jackson on Democracy Now! today.
There was a lynch mob. There was a death without a trial, without a jury, without a sentence. There was an execution — that’s lynching.
Eddie Conway, former leader of the Baltimore Black Panthers, talked to Democracy Now! about the murder of Freddie Gray in Baltimore police custody. The head of the police union in Baltimore called protests against the police killing a “lynch mob.”