Sat May 2 - Business Owners From Ferguson And Baltimore

At the beginning of the week we saw violence, rioting, burning and looting in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Grey a young black man who suffered an almost entire severing of his spinal cord while in police custody and in the back of a Baltimore police van. The narrative then changed into what people globally heard was anger in African American communities (and beyond Baltimore) over treatment of those community members by police. The current wave of protest and violence began in Ferguson, Missouri with the death of 18 year old Michael Brown, shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Wilson was not criminally charged. The six Baltimore police officers who took Freddie Grey into custody and in whose custody he died, have been criminally charged, one with second degree murder. All face 20 years and more in prison if convicted. We talk to two business owners. One in Ferguson, Missouri,Sonny Dayan and the other, James Hamlin in Baltimore, Maryland. James Hamlin.
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At the beginning of the week we saw violence, rioting, burning and looting in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Grey a young black man who suffered an almost entire severing of his spinal cord while in police custody and in the back of a Baltimore police van. The narrative then changed into what people globally heard was anger in African American communities (and beyond Baltimore) over treatment of those community members by police. The current wave of protest and violence began in Ferguson, Missouri with the death of 18 year old Michael Brown, shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Wilson was not criminally charged. The six Baltimore police officers who took Freddie Grey into custody and in whose custody he died, have been criminally charged, one with second degree murder. All face 20 years and more in prison if convicted. We talk to two business owners. One in Ferguson, Missouri,Sonny Dayan and the other, James Hamlin in Baltimore, Maryland.

James Hamlin.

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