"Do not deploy anything yet, the community is interceding"

[iluvatar5150]

Somebody in downtown Baltimore last night decided to throw fireworks at the cops and the locals were *not* having it.

(profanity warning because reddit and Twitter and Baltimore and protests)

Heard on Police Scanner - "Do not deploy anything yet, the community is interceding" in reference to fireworks being thrown at officers right now on Baltimore St. Community leaders attempting to calm people down. Positive sign and it sounds like it's working. : baltimore

Protestors turned over person suspected of lighting fireworks at the police to the police : baltimore

https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/1267645552403103744?s=19

https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/1267645052274294786?s=19

I love this town.

Also, that's how you do a citizen's arrest.

 

[Sparagmos]

Somebody in downtown Baltimore last night decided to throw fireworks at the cops and the locals were *not* having it.

(profanity warning because reddit and Twitter and Baltimore and protests)

Heard on Police Scanner - "Do not deploy anything yet, the community is interceding" in reference to fireworks being thrown at officers right now on Baltimore St. Community leaders attempting to calm people down. Positive sign and it sounds like it's working. : baltimore

Protestors turned over person suspected of lighting fireworks at the police to the police : baltimore

https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/1267645552403103744?s=19

https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/1267645052274294786?s=19

I love this town.

Also, that's how you do a citizen's arrest.

This is awesome! In Portland protesters are doing the same thing and we had a huge peaceful action last night. I think some serious messages were sent to known agitators.

 

[SummerMadness]

It's good to see peace is maintained in cities across the country, we have to remember that peace remains when the police show restraint.

How a City Once Consumed by Civil Unrest Has Kept Protests Peaceful

A weekend protest in Newark ended at the same intersection where one of the most wrenching and deadly of the race riots that convulsed the nation during the 1960s began.

It was there, just outside the First Precinct at the corner of 17th Avenue and Livingston Street, that hundreds of protesters outraged by the death of George Floyd faced off late Saturday against officers in riot gear.

As many cities across the United States were filled with fiery scenes of rock-throwing demonstrators, burning squad cars and aggressive policing, peace has so far prevailed in Newark.

The 12,000-person protest on Saturday afternoon brimmed with rage at the death of Mr. Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man who died in Minneapolis after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground at the neck by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer.

But there were no protest-related arrests during the weekend. Tires were slashed on squad cars, but none were set ablaze and no storefronts were smashed. The most prominent graffiti, a message scrawled on a courthouse in spray paint — "WE LOVE U GEORGE" — had been power-washed clean by Sunday afternoon.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

I heard that a small western town of about 9000 rallied and defended itself which resulted in a large picnic with the protestors rather than a violent event.

 

[agapelove]

We love to see it!

 

[iluvatar5150]

Five years after Freddie Gray unrest, Baltimore sets an example for peaceful protests

 

[Broken Fence]

Somebody in downtown Baltimore last night decided to throw fireworks at the cops and the locals were *not* having it.

(profanity warning because reddit and Twitter and Baltimore and protests)

Heard on Police Scanner - "Do not deploy anything yet, the community is interceding" in reference to fireworks being thrown at officers right now on Baltimore St. Community leaders attempting to calm people down. Positive sign and it sounds like it's working. : baltimore

Protestors turned over person suspected of lighting fireworks at the police to the police : baltimore

https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/1267645552403103744?s=19

https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/1267645052274294786?s=19

I love this town.

Also, that's how you do a citizen's arrest.

Sounds like the best thing for everybody. Praise the Lord