washington acting like it s okay to abandon cities. i m hoping that we will come to the realization in washington that we re all in this boat together and we re either going to rise together or we re going to fall together. but we re in the boat together now. in the neighborhood where freddie gray was arrested there s a new police commander in charge. she granted me a rare interview. next. if you look at me, you re going to make some natural assumptions about sheree. are you not? you re going to think she s been here 21 years, almost 22 years, she doesn t understand what it s like. she doesn t know. yes, i do understand what it s like. i m back. aleve pm for a better am.
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police brutality. on top of the fact that we have nothing to lose. 97% of black people in baltimore born in poverty die in poverty. what do we have to lose? what are we wagering? what are we doing? what s the consequence for our actions when it s already nothing there? when people would say, and i saw this all the time, they re burning their own neighborhood, why re this burning their own neighborhood, what did you hear? i heard they re burning someone else s neighborhood, they re burning someone else s neighborhood, they re burning things that they never really had access to anyway. so you know, freddie gray as was like the tipping point but there s a whole laundry list of systemic issues that brought about these things. and it can potentially happen in other parts of the country as well because people are getting tired of our nation dangling wealth in front of us and systematically keeping us from having opportunities to access any of it. it s a funny thing when you re in bal
remember, baltimore is not on an island. and it s not on a foreign planet. it existed in the united states for the past year and we ve seen ferguson and eric garner and walter scott in south carolina before freddie gray. i think we have to remember that the building that s happening was happening not only in baltimore, but all over this country with young people dealing with years of police brutality who have had it. no question the videos are going viral and in no particular freddie gray s video. the two people he mentioned tyrone west and anthony anderson two african-american men killed in police custody in the years prior to freddie gray. the foundation was there. but there was a context. but there was also a national context in which people are saying enough is enough with police brutality. on top of the fact that we have nothing to lose. 97% of black people in baltimore born in poverty die in poverty. what do we have to lose? what are we waging? what are we doing? what s the c