A man was fatally shot Tuesday morning in West Baltimore, becoming the city's 31st homicide victim this month.
The man, who police have been unable to identify, was killed about 10:13 a.m. in the 2100 block of Garrison Boulevard, north of Gwynns Falls Park, police said.
Prior to the spike in violence last year following the death of Freddie Gray, the city had not recorded 30 homicides in a month since the 1990s. In 2015, the city had five months with more than 30 homicides. July is the first month this year that the city reached that mark.
The people getting killed in this carnage are overwhelmingly, and perhaps exclusively, black. But "compassion" and "justice" dictate targeting the front line against crime.
Hello! If black lives actually mattered to Black Lives Matter, I would donate $10,000 to Debbie Wasserman Schultz Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.
I don't understand Mr. Otis. There were concerns over the actions of these six police officers, and they had their day in court. Do you not think justice was served? Do you disagree with the verdicts rendered?
You don't file felony charges out of "concerns." You file them when you have a case you believe in objective good faith you can prove beyond a reasonable doubt to the trier of fact.
The results so far suggest that Ms. Mosby did not and does not have such a case. Yet she apparently intends to persist spending resources on the remaining prosecutions while murder escalates out of control in her city.
So would you have been happy with the decision to prosecute if the defendants were found guilty? I was under the impression that the purpose of a trial was to determine guilt, but you seem to be framing it as a glorified formality.
Edna, I have a question for you--please identify the articulable facts that show probable cause that Edward Nero committed any of the crimes he was charged with. That's the standard--and there is an ethical obligation to meet it.