#Baltimore teachers whose classrooms were frigid today - in the 30s & 40s - were online & angry: "Things we only ask of black and brown children." bit.ly/2CtmPYl
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- Someone took a sledgehammer to Baltimore's 200-yr-old monument to Christopher Columbus early this morning bit.ly/2wqbRjB
- After @MayorPugh50 told fed'l agents her personal phone was in Philadelphia, they dialed the # and there was "a vibrating sound emanating from her bed." She dove for it. An agent "yelled for her to stop & show her hands." Pugh grabbed it from under the pillow, still vibrating.
- BREAKING: In a victory for Poppleton residents, @MayorBMScott to announce the Eaddys can keep their home. And the Sarah Ann houses will be saved - and rehabbed by Black Women Build Baltimore. bit.ly/3PxPpJV "The little guy won."
- Wow, Baltimore’s Inner Harbor is really swollen tonight amid this heavy rain. The water at Harborplace is deep and getting deeper!
00:00 - Takeaway from yesterday's huge turnout at a #CovidVaccine clinic in West Baltimore that administered 2,200 doses in a single day: "This proves my point that African-American older adults are not 'hesitant,'" an organizer says. bit.ly/3vyl7h0
- On Friday at church, a Baltimore Catholic priest and school officials demanded that a girl take off her gay pride shirt. Today, her classmates - and many adults - showed up at St. Francis of Assisi Church to support her. bit.ly/3czXoEJ
- Some cheer as Martin O'Malley addresses crowd. Others: "go home, you locked up half my zip code"!"
- .@baltimoresun fires a reporter for raising questions internally about news coverage under David Smith’s ownership shorturl.at/VwT0K Union calls the action "cowardly," @MaddiONeill “was fired because of her outspoken advocacy on behalf of workplace & journalistic standards”
- BREAKING- Error by the Baltimore Elections Board - thousands of improperly registered voters - is discovered after a District 43A voter is sent a Dist. 45 absentee ballot. bit.ly/3xDCJtL "If I hadn't questioned it, we may not have discovered the error til Election Day,”
- BREAKING: STILL MORE questions for @Nick_Mosby, Bmore's likely next CC President. House he co-owns in W. Balto. is not registered as a rental unit and is not lead-certified. His bus partner asserts Mosby "probably doesn't know where property is any more." bit.ly/3ee6kzz
- .@BaltimorePolice officer, stripped of police powers after fatally shooting an unarmed teen, kept on payroll for 28 years bit.ly/3xHkHEG Report by @OIG_Baltimore faults BPD for keeping him on w/ full pay/benefits & generous OT. @BaltimoreBrew confirms his identity.
- TIMELINE of scanner transmissions that shows - hours before 30 were shot, 2 fatally - @BaltimorePolice were getting calls for help and knew Brooklyn Day was out of control, but stayed back. bit.ly/3O6dYjm "Foxtrot is overhead. We're not going in the crowd."
