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At the end of a march led by Representative Elijah Cummings, Democrat of Maryland, local religious leaders met at New Shiloh Baptist Church on North Monroe Street with some of the young rioters.
Most of the protesters had already left the church, but with about 50 people still in the pews, six or seven young men went to the front of the church, where they set out their frustrations and spoke about what they had done to shape the events of the night.
Some of the young men wore bandanas to hide their identities. Several young men identified themselves as members of the Crips, Bloods and Black Guerrilla Family street gangs. One Crips member, who called himself Charles, said the gang members had taken to the streets because there is only so far that you can push people into a corner. Were frustrated and thats why were out there in the streets.
He described how he and some Bloods members stood in front of stores that they knew were black-owned business, to protect them from looting and vandalism. He said they made sure no black youths, or reporters, were injured by rioters. Instead, he said, they pointed the rioters toward Chinese- and Arab-owned stores.
http://www.nytimes.com/live/confrontation-in-baltimore/church-leaders-gang-members-meet/
melman
(7,681 posts)Wonderful. That's just lovely.
Skittles
(153,111 posts)disgusting
msongs
(67,347 posts)linuxman
(2,337 posts)Seriously.
romanic
(2,841 posts)Next to crooked cops, these lowlives prey on young black kids to sling dope and kill each over imaginary turf. Fuck em, these bastards will turn on each other when the protest stop and kill other innocents without mercy.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)There's a good chance that most of them are immigrants who have busted their humps to make better lives for themselves and their families.