{"id":147568,"date":"2015-04-29T22:01:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T22:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/target\/cutting-through-police-propaganda-in-baltimore\/"},"modified":"2015-04-29T22:02:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T22:02:19","slug":"cutting-through-police-propaganda-in-baltimore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/cutting-through-police-propaganda-in-baltimore\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Through Police Propaganda in Baltimore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"mct_ai_excerpt\">On Monday, the day 25-year-old Freddie Gray was laid to rest in Baltimore after fatal injuries sustained during an arrest, The Daily Beast reported that members of the Crips and Bloods had declared a truce and united to protest Gray\u2019s death. Hours after the report was published, the Baltimore Police Department issued a press release citing a \u201ccredible threat\u201d based on intelligence that \u201cvarious gangs\u2026have entered into a partnership to \u2018take out\u2019 law enforcement officers.\u201d Later, gang members, upset that their truce had been spun by the police, told local NBC affiliate WBAL , \u201cWe did not make that truce to harm cops. &#8230;We\u2019re not about to allow y\u2019all to paint this picture of us. &#8230;We want justice for Freddie Gray.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The WBAL report was so unusual that even the reporter admitted as much, saying in the beginning, \u201cI\u2019ve had a number of young people &#8230; stop me and say, \u2018You really need to talk to us and you really need to get our voice heard,\u2019 and I said, \u2018You are absolutely right.\u2019\u201d Most of the media coverage of the protests that took place in Baltimore this week failed to provide context or give voice to those protesting, instead offering a simplistic narrative of \u201cschool-age youths\u201d assaulting police officers at Mondawmin Mall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toolsforfreedom.com\/Cops-Gone-Wild-Police-Brutality-in-America-p\/2218.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-147527\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cops-gone-wild.gif\" alt=\"cops-gone-wild\" width=\"208\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>For example, this Washington Post article used the terms \u201cmobs\u201d and \u201clooters\u201d to describe students. But left out of mainstream media coverage was what Marshall \u201cEddie\u201d Conway, a reporter for the alternative media outlet The Real News Network, told me in an interview on \u201c Uprising \u201d a day after the protests.<\/p>\n<p>Conway, a former Black Panther Party leader in Baltimore who spent a whopping 44 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, explained that, \u201cThey [the police] closed the [Mondawmin] shopping center down, then\u2026they let a high school out, then they closed down public transportation. So the students were released from school but they could not get on the metro system to go home or to leave the area. So they were stuck in that area and then massive police presence pushed them down to another area.\u201d That is when students began physically expressing their anger.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/cutting_through_police_propaganda_in_baltimore_20150429\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the day 25-year-old Freddie Gray was laid to rest in Baltimore after fatal injuries sustained during an arrest, The Daily Beast reported that members of the Crips and Bloods had declared a truce and united to protest Gray\u2019s death. Hours after the report was published, the Baltimore Police Department issued a press release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-147568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}