Baltimore Sun (May 1)
“Looking back over the protests of the last week, both peaceful and violent, it is clear Baltimore has reached a crossroads…. What happens next may well determine whether the world comes to view Baltimore as a city that is succeeding in its effort to renew itself or one doomed to perpetual strife and social dysfunction.”
Tags: Baltimore, Crossroads, Dysfunction, Peaceful, Protests, Strife, Violent
Washington Post (April 30)
It is misleading to compare recent U.S. riots to “the unrest that followed the verdict in the 1992 Rodney King police brutality trial…. The fact is that steep increases in income inequality and mass incarceration, as well as racial disparities in school discipline that start in preschool, mean that the prospects of young African American men are worse now than they were then.”
Tags: Incarceration, Inequality, Misleading, Police brutality, Racial disparities, Riots, Rodney King, U.S., Unrest, Verdict
