Did Black Lives Matter Rhetoric Turn Baltimore Into A War Zone?

By Tom Knighton

When Freddie Gray died while in police custody so soon after the Michael Brown incident in Ferguson, MO, you knew it was going to be bad in Baltimore. Sure enough, they had their protests which bore a striking resemblance to riots, and groups like Black Lives Matter pushed for police to disappear.

Well, they kind of did in Baltimore. The results?

Baltimore had 343 homicides in 2017, a number which set a new record for the most murders per capita in the city’s history. Today NPR published an interesting interview with a Baltimore pastor named Rev. Kinji Scott who says the problem is that police in the city have pulled back in the wake of the Freddie Gray case. Interviewer Lauren Prayer asks Rev. Scott, “After the death of Freddie Gray, yourself, families of victims, didn’t you want police to back off?” Scott replied:

No. That represented our progressives, our activists, our liberal journalists, our politicians, but it did not represent the overall community. Because we know for a fact that around the time Freddie Gray was killed, we start to see homicides increase. We had five homicides in that neighborhood while we were protesting.

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