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BALTIMORE (Reuters) – The mayor of Baltimore praised the citizens who organized five days of peaceful protests over the death of a black man in police custody and vowed after meeting with clergy leaders on Friday to find answers in the case.
The largely black city has seen daily marches and demonstrations since Sunday, when 25-year-old Freddie Gray died of a neck injury sustained when police arrested him a week earlier.
The incident was the latest in the string of deaths of black men at the hands of police, which have prompted waves of protest across the United States since the deaths last year of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York.
Unlike in Ferguson, where weeks of peaceful protests were punctuated by several nights of rioting, arson and looting, the protests in Baltimore have seen only a handful of arrests and no major violence.
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Date: April 28, 2015 07:57AM
Baltimore mayor praises marchers for peaceful protests over man’s death
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – The mayor of Baltimore praised the citizens who organized five days of peaceful protests over the death of a black man in police custody and vowed after meeting with clergy leaders on Friday to find answers in the case.
The largely black city has seen daily marches and demonstrations since Sunday, when 25-year-old Freddie Gray died of a neck injury sustained when police arrested him a week earlier.
The incident was the latest in the string of deaths of black men at the hands of police, which have prompted waves of protest across the United States since the deaths last year of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York.
Unlike in Ferguson, where weeks of peaceful protests were punctuated by several nights of rioting, arson and looting, the protests in Baltimore have seen only a handful of arrests and no major violence.
How'd that work out Sparky?<?b>