An interview with David Simon. Bill Keller: What do people outside the city need to understand about what’s going on there—the death of Freddie Gray and the response to it? David Simon: I guess there’s an awful lot to understand and I’m not sure I understand all of it. The part that seems systemic and connected is that the drug war—which Baltimore waged as aggressively as any American city—was transforming
May 2, 2015
May 2, 2015
Pity Joan Walsh of Salon, her racism does not allow blacks personal agency [Darleen Click]
I haven’t commented on the Baltimore, Freddie Gray, incident because I don’t know any more of the incident than has been reported and I know almost nothing about the city and its police department. I do know that with the filing of formal charges yesterday, the officers involved — whose “race” was never mentioned in any coverage — were revealed as three whites and three blacks. Which kind of puts