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[All Along The Watchtower]

Why are we assuming that the media is being honest about how the Baltimore riots started?

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Eyewitnesses: The Baltimore Riots Didn't Start the Way You Think

[All Along The Watchtower]

I wonder when we will find out the ethnicities of the police involved in Freddy Gray's arrest.  Since Baltimore has a significant black presence in its police force I'm wondering how likely it is that some of the police involved were black, and if this is so, whether letting that news out might help to defuse the racial aspects involved in the Baltimore disturbances.

Probably not.  Form the reporting I heard on NPR last night, it appears the residents there view it more as a class problem than a race problem.

Considering how precarious (and small-especially compared to its white counterpart) the black middle class is...hard to separate class from race in practical terms.