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the vacant buildings. the lack of grocery stores. if you looked at the west side, the films of the cvs burning, nobody s concerned that you don t see a safeway or a giant or any kind of supermarket. i had the privilege of sitting on the board of baltimore s public library, and one of the things we did was create an online food service so people could order online and go to the public library to pick up fresh produce to deal with the food deserts. to get food at the library. to pick it up at the library so you could have fresh produce in places there were no grocery stores. you ve written a bunch of about your relationship as a young black man growing up in baltimore with the police and how that was negotiated. i mean, what was when you saw what happened with freddie gray, what was going through your mind about what was underneath the surface that allowed that moment to happen? i wasn t surprised because the city has a history of police brutality. and you know, when we re talk
that i m 200% sure that was the reason why this brought about a different reaction. because again, twitter, instagram, facebook, you re watching a video. msnbc. we see the video over and over again. and that blew up in the community first, right? remember, baltimore is not on an island. and it s not on a foreign planet. it existed in the united states and we ve seen ferguson and eric garner and walter scott in south carolina before freddie gray. i think we have to remember t thing aboth thing about that s happening is happening not only in baltimore, 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 no n. 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 also a national context in which people are saying enough is enough wi
death of freddie gray does not necessarily indicate a long-term trend. many residents believe that after the unrest in april the police are hamstrung. the police are castrated. the police have zero power in this city. it is the lawless are the new protected class and the hard-working people are the criminals. others see a city whose long-simmering anger has simply exploded. people underestimate how much people pay attention. you know, people in our neighborhoods are paying attention to what s happening around them. and what they found was what they found before, which is people talking about that they care about their communities and neighborhoods but they don t see any material result. in terms of actual resources to sustain work that will sustain the community people don t see that and people are angry. frustration has been witnessed firsthand by congressman elijah cummings. i know without a doubt there s a lot of anger but there s a lot of anger for a lot of reasons.
to the other side of town. you have this sort of question about police accountability and reform. you have a question about homicide and gun violence. the numbers are what they are. it s been a terrible year em peerically in baltimore. then the question is okay, now what? i just want to say this that seems to be the only number that we can tally, right? so the actual people who were killed. and it s an important number because one of the things that i think has happened in baltimore is human life has become so extendible. it s black beam and it s so disturbing and powerful and painful. but there are people who are alove who are suffering incredibly, who are suffering from a lack of education, who are suffering from not having hope or jobs, who are suffering from living in substandard housing. where are we measuring that and you never hear about that. in my sense there s been a fair amount of organizing, too. there was a lot of organizing before freddie gray that built the frame