On
Monday, after a weekend of peaceful protests, Baltimore erupted into looting,
burning, and rioting after the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray while in police
custody. The media depicted the start of the riots as a group of kids itching
for a fight all day—but according to eyewitnesses, those kids were blocked from going
home by police waiting outside their schools in full riot gear.
After
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake implemented a curfew, things calmed down. But the
residents still await the results of the investigation into Gray's death.
Meanwhile, residents of cities across the country are taking to the streets in solidarity with
Baltimoreans.
By
Patrick Caldwell
Unlike
Hillary Clinton, his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie
Sanders didn't use a splashy, big-budget video to announce his campaign.
Instead, the Vermont senator opted for a series of one-on-one television
interviews Wednesday followed by a low-key launch event outside the US Capitol
Thursday morning. "I believe that in a democracy, what elections are about are
serious debates over serious issues," he said Thursday. "Not political gossip,
not making campaigns into soap operas. This is not the Red Sox vs. the Yankees,
this is the debate over major issues facing the American people."
Pundits
are already dismissing Sanders—who has, in the past,
described himself as a socialist rather than a Democrat—as a long-shot candidate
with little chance of defeating Hillary Clinton for the Democrats' 2016
nomination. But Sanders is already beating Clinton on one metric: Answering
questions from the press. [READ MORE]
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