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Salon Writer: Paris Terror Should End U.S. 'Right's Violent Language Toward Activists'

By Tom Blumer | November 14, 2015, 5:09 PM EST

Some of them include the several episodes of rioting and violence in Ferguson, Missouri; the Baltimore ...

Wash Post Analysis: Police Justified in Fatal Shootings At Least 95 Pct. of the Time

By Tom Blumer | November 2, 2015, 11:50 PM EST

are down in St. Louis, Baltimore, New York, Seattle and other cities where police are under siege, ... Baltimore residents complain of drug dealers walking down the street, openly firing guns in the air like the ...

Salon Writer: To Get a Gun, You Should Have to Take a Bullet

By Tom Blumer | October 17, 2015, 8:22 PM EDT

has probably never met a poor person in his life, but Carson spent years in my hometown of Baltimore. The nation knows that people in Baltimore are quick to reach for their guns, as our per capita murder ...

AP's Linderman Portrays Baltimore Mayor Not Running For Reelection as a Victim

By Tom Blumer | September 13, 2015, 11:01 PM EDT

Juliet Linderman sang Saturday morning in the wake of Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's ... Baltimore residents to matter surely remember. The first is that the Mayor admitted to making a conscious ... a sheriff from another Maryland county who came to Baltimore hoping to help preserve order, is that she ...

Napolitano Rips 'Unprecedented' Freddie Gray Payout Before Cops' Criminal Trial

By Tom Blumer | September 10, 2015, 4:07 PM EDT

Baltimore's agreement to pay $6.4 million to the family of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man who died in ... case to "settle." Both the AP and the New York Times, the latter in quoting Baltimore Mayor ... did it. They approved- the Board of Estimates in Baltimore unanimously, 5 to 0, voted in favor to ...

NY Times Pretends Baltimore Had Only One Night of 'Looting and Arson'

By Tom Blumer | September 10, 2015, 7:37 AM EDT

a blighted neighborhood of boarded-up rowhouses in West Baltimore. His death on April 19 set off nearly two ... wound in Baltimore, a majority black city with an African-American mayor and a history of tensions ... deliberately ignored — I say it's deliberate because she was in Baltimore during the time period in ...

Oh-So-Predictable USA Today: Murder Rates Up, Poor and Minorities Hardest Hit, Guns to Blame

By Tom Blumer | July 13, 2015, 10:05 AM EDT

some hope for Madhani's writeup when I came to a section entitled "Baltimore and Ferguson ... Rawlings-Blake which allowed Baltimore's riots to occur and then worsen — have encouraged increased criminal ... Baltimore, New Orleans and St. Louis. Meanwhile, in Chicago, the nation's third-largest city, the ...

Bigoted Vox Writer Smears the South

By Tom Blumer | June 24, 2015, 5:22 PM EDT

It wouldn't have been appropriate, but Baltimore, Newark, and Philadelphia were all in the 2012 ...

Stephanie 'Space to Destroy' Rawlings-Blake to Head U.S. Mayors' Group, Safe From Concerns About Media Scrutiny

By Tom Blumer | June 22, 2015, 11:07 PM EDT

play again. Of course, the press is playing up the move-up, and ignoring the screw-ups. Baltimore Mayor ... she's calling "the Baltimore Compact." There are no specifics yet, but she is saying things about it and her situation in Baltimore she wouldn't dare if the Baltimore Sun or others in the ...

AP Keeps Mosby's Name Out of Headline in Story Entirely About Her

By Tom Blumer | June 10, 2015, 5:11 PM EDT

protecting what little is left of Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby's credibility and reputation than ... request to increase patrols at a key crime-infested intersection in Baltimore came from Mosby. Lawyers for six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray demanded the removal of the ...

Baltimore Sun Reporter, in Covering City's Request for Riot 'Disaster' Assistance, 'Forgets' That Mayor Condoned Looting, Held Back Police

By Tom Blumer | May 31, 2015, 8:06 PM EDT

In case you missed it, the City of Baltimore and the State of Maryland have requested disaster ... that city's April riots. You read that right. Yvonne Wenger at the Baltimore Sun predictably ... Unrest will cost city $20 million, officials estimate The recent rioting and unrest in Baltimore will ...

Elijah Cummings: Baltimore Schools Are Awful; Others Have to Pay to Fix Them

By Tom Blumer | May 11, 2015, 2:37 PM EDT

With Camden Yards set to hold its first fan-attended Baltimore Orioles game in over two weeks ... Baltimore May 2, 2015... Quiet moments have been few in Baltimore this week, except where you’d least expect ... drugstore in West Baltimore that played endlessly on cable news but a heightened awareness of issues that ...

NYT Pair Strongly Imply That Mosby's Cousin Was Killed by Police, When It Was a Black-on-Black Crime

By Tom Blumer | June 10, 2015, 5:37 PM EDT

Baltimore. On Friday, she announced the indictment of six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray. ... state’s attorney for Baltimore City — has been shaped by her own experience growing up black in a tough ... adults, she said in an interview, both she and her husband — Nick Mosby, a member of the Baltimore City ...

Press Ignoring Maryland Sheriff’s Insistence That Baltimore Cops Were Told to Stand Down, Retreat

By Tom Blumer | April 30, 2015, 11:41 PM EDT

emerged from anonymity told them that Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake "gave an order for ... and Davis show in Baltimore today and repeated his assertion, while adding that the orders included ... of the related article at CBS Baltimore (bolds are mine; some paragraph breaks added by me): Sheriff: ...

AP Writers: Cities Hit by 1960s Riots 'Have Taken Decades to Recover'; They Haven't Recovered At All

By Tom Blumer | April 30, 2015, 10:01 PM EDT

Baltimore during the past several days wraps up with a final paragraph only a historically ignorant person ... any of them. Baltimore is on that list: While the overall U.S. population has grown by over 50 percent ... tiniest inklings of recovery — and Baltimore's has almost certainly been halted by this week's ...