How drunk sports fans helped spark Saturday night's post-protest violence

[Ravi]

So apparently this reporter who typed the OP and someone on Social Media have a similar account of what happened. Total Coincidence though

Yet....the Orioles never have rights at the hundreds of home games they've had over the last decade. Until a swarm of thugs rolls in.

Its no different than your local shopping mall. No fights or shootings all week, especially daylight hours.

But Saturday nights...the thugs roll in. And violence begins.

Movie theaters? The Wednesday matinee show never has violence. But Friday's 1030pm showing of Fast and Furious? Yep. Thug life rolls in.

Bullshit. Ravens fans that come down here are all thugs and all of them are white.

I imagine a lot of Orioles fans are the same.

 

[depotoo]

Most places I know of must score the empty liquor bottles and store them for abc and remove the pourer. So far as who got empy beer bottles, who knows? We have no pictures to show either throwing bottles.

And you still miss the point all the way around. I don't even know why I bother with you. You will turn every story to another angle any chance you get. I at least stated that instigators from either side need to be held responsible. I've yet to ever see you do that.

The article states that 1 protester had a bottle FROM THE BAR. so which do you believe..protesters found bottles in a trash can somewhere and threw them or the people at the bar, that sells bottles of beer, threw the beer?

 

[williepete]

He's dead and two weeks later people are still without an explanation.

It's outrageous. That white, Republican mayor and the all-white city council needs to be called to account.

Oh, wait.

 

[ClosedCaption]

How drunk sports fans helped spark Saturday night s post-protest violence - citypaper.com

City Paper

4:22 a.m. EDT, April 28, 2015


On Saturday night, following the violence that broke out near Camden Yards, a photo of me supposedly protecting a woman from violent protesters surfaced on BuzzFeed and then trickled down to the conservative armpit of the internet where it was mischaracterized. In the photo, I look strangely heroic, and the picture was quickly co-opted by those who like to present an all-too-common and easy narrative: white people being terrorized by black people.

The truth, or as much as I have been able to cobble together from my own memory and notes, videos online, video I shot, and videos from City Paper’s Managing Editor Baynard Woods, is far less interesting, though much more important than “white dude saves white lady.”

I’m not exactly sure how the violence broke out around 6 p.m. in front of Pickles Pub on Washington Boulevard and traveled up the street to The Bullpen, Sliders Bar & Grill, and Frank & Nic’s West End Grille then down Howard Street. I know a small group of protesters and a small group of baseball fans started whipping bottles at one another and brawling. When the protesters turned the corner onto Washington Boulevard from Camden Street chanting “black lives matter,” some baseball fans applauded and a few angrily chanted back, “We don’t care”—someone who worked at The Bullpen confirmed this for me. He also said that some patrons chanted “run them over,” and one yelled “go get them.” Other protestors, including City Paper contributor D. Watkins and gang members interviewed on WBAL, recall bar patrons calling them “*******,” among other racist epithets.

I don’t know who threw something first, but I heard a shift to jeers and boos from the people drinking and ran right over to it and saw beers being tossed from behind a gate that keeps Pickles drinkers from standing in the road and bottles being whipped back at the drinkers. Some people at Pickles stood up and moved toward the protesters though they were protected by the gate. Then, protesters pulled away the gate protecting Pickles customers from the street. Men from Pickles and elsewhere charged toward the protesters and the protesters charged the Pickles customers. It was at this point that I stopped being a journalist and became someone who was trying to help out.

A young woman from the bar threw a stool at me and others, and then affected a “come at me bro” stance. At the same time, many protesters were trying to tell the ones who were fighting and throwing things to stop causing trouble and keep moving. Some protesters began to grab bags of peanuts from a small stand and throw them at the people at the bar. The woman who threw the stool got hit in the face with a bag of peanuts and she went down. I helped her back up.

I retreated and noticed another woman from the bar, who earlier had thrown a chair, was now following the group as it moved up Washington Boulevard, pleading with them to stop. I ran up to her and told her to get back. She pushed me away, which is both a reasonable response to someone screaming at you and also a completely bizarre response to someone who is telling you to go inside, you’re going to get hurt.

At some point around here, a fight started in front of Sliders. Protesters and bar customers were fighting. The videos show people on both sides who wanted to fight and were excited to fight and embraced the opportunity.

The pleading woman followed the protesters up to the bar Frank & Nic’s. She was reaching out at people and yelling. I stopped her from walking toward a protester who was throwing a chair at a window, and that’s when the picture was taken. City Paper contributors Caitlin Goldblatt and Gianna DeCarlo were also talking to the woman at this point and a protester with a big bag and a bottle of vodka that he clearly stole from one of the bars (it has a pourer on it) approached her. That’s where we got the image of a protester, who was most certainly looting, who looks like he’s stealing a purse, but I was there and I’m really not sure if that’s what is happening.

In part, it also seems like it was a failure of security, who didn’t stop customers from jeering at the protesters. I was also told by employees at the bars that they had a discussion beforehand about how bad it would be if O’s fans who “every game, drink way too much” encountered protesters. The protesters who got violent weren’t from “out of town,” by the way. Some of their faces were recognizable to me as people who had been with the protests. Here were drunk, angry, white baseball fans and bar-goers who were equally guilty for the violence that happened that night and embraced the chance to fight and provoked some of it, and any accurate narrative must acknowledge that and barely anyone has acknowledged that. If you’d like to call Baltimore County whites and Boston Red Sox fans “outside agitators,” then you’ve got your outside agitators.

- See more at: How drunk sports fans helped spark Saturday night s post-protest violence - citypaper.com

There is also Video thats about 15 seconds long that shows the incident with the guys coming through the gates confronting people. Why? Because talking about anything black makes them angry

Like this thread will

How drunk sports fans helped spark Saturday night s post-protest violence - citypaper.com

City Paper

4:22 a.m. EDT, April 28, 2015


On Saturday night, following the violence that broke out near Camden Yards, a photo of me supposedly protecting a woman from violent protesters surfaced on BuzzFeed and then trickled down to the conservative armpit of the internet where it was mischaracterized. In the photo, I look strangely heroic, and the picture was quickly co-opted by those who like to present an all-too-common and easy narrative: white people being terrorized by black people.

The truth, or as much as I have been able to cobble together from my own memory and notes, videos online, video I shot, and videos from City Paper’s Managing Editor Baynard Woods, is far less interesting, though much more important than “white dude saves white lady.”

I’m not exactly sure how the violence broke out around 6 p.m. in front of Pickles Pub on Washington Boulevard and traveled up the street to The Bullpen, Sliders Bar & Grill, and Frank & Nic’s West End Grille then down Howard Street. I know a small group of protesters and a small group of baseball fans started whipping bottles at one another and brawling. When the protesters turned the corner onto Washington Boulevard from Camden Street chanting “black lives matter,” some baseball fans applauded and a few angrily chanted back, “We don’t care”—someone who worked at The Bullpen confirmed this for me. He also said that some patrons chanted “run them over,” and one yelled “go get them.” Other protestors, including City Paper contributor D. Watkins and gang members interviewed on WBAL, recall bar patrons calling them “*******,” among other racist epithets.

I don’t know who threw something first, but I heard a shift to jeers and boos from the people drinking and ran right over to it and saw beers being tossed from behind a gate that keeps Pickles drinkers from standing in the road and bottles being whipped back at the drinkers. Some people at Pickles stood up and moved toward the protesters though they were protected by the gate. Then, protesters pulled away the gate protecting Pickles customers from the street. Men from Pickles and elsewhere charged toward the protesters and the protesters charged the Pickles customers. It was at this point that I stopped being a journalist and became someone who was trying to help out.

A young woman from the bar threw a stool at me and others, and then affected a “come at me bro” stance. At the same time, many protesters were trying to tell the ones who were fighting and throwing things to stop causing trouble and keep moving. Some protesters began to grab bags of peanuts from a small stand and throw them at the people at the bar. The woman who threw the stool got hit in the face with a bag of peanuts and she went down. I helped her back up.

I retreated and noticed another woman from the bar, who earlier had thrown a chair, was now following the group as it moved up Washington Boulevard, pleading with them to stop. I ran up to her and told her to get back. She pushed me away, which is both a reasonable response to someone screaming at you and also a completely bizarre response to someone who is telling you to go inside, you’re going to get hurt.

At some point around here, a fight started in front of Sliders. Protesters and bar customers were fighting. The videos show people on both sides who wanted to fight and were excited to fight and embraced the opportunity.

The pleading woman followed the protesters up to the bar Frank & Nic’s. She was reaching out at people and yelling. I stopped her from walking toward a protester who was throwing a chair at a window, and that’s when the picture was taken. City Paper contributors Caitlin Goldblatt and Gianna DeCarlo were also talking to the woman at this point and a protester with a big bag and a bottle of vodka that he clearly stole from one of the bars (it has a pourer on it) approached her. That’s where we got the image of a protester, who was most certainly looting, who looks like he’s stealing a purse, but I was there and I’m really not sure if that’s what is happening.

In part, it also seems like it was a failure of security, who didn’t stop customers from jeering at the protesters. I was also told by employees at the bars that they had a discussion beforehand about how bad it would be if O’s fans who “every game, drink way too much” encountered protesters. The protesters who got violent weren’t from “out of town,” by the way. Some of their faces were recognizable to me as people who had been with the protests. Here were drunk, angry, white baseball fans and bar-goers who were equally guilty for the violence that happened that night and embraced the chance to fight and provoked some of it, and any accurate narrative must acknowledge that and barely anyone has acknowledged that. If you’d like to call Baltimore County whites and Boston Red Sox fans “outside agitators,” then you’ve got your outside agitators.

- See more at: How drunk sports fans helped spark Saturday night s post-protest violence - citypaper.com

There is also Video thats about 15 seconds long that shows the incident with the guys coming through the gates confronting people. Why? Because talking about anything black makes them angry

Like this thread will

Notice he didn't post the video. Here's why

Thank you...I was looking for that. So tell me what are the white dudes yelling about and saying get back behind the fence for? Because they were chilling...behind the fence? LMAO

Initially a thug dumped a garbage can on them.

False, you just made that up

They went outside the fence to defend those on the inside of it.

False, again you just made that up

They would be crazy to lunge themselves into a crowd of black thugs. They instigated nothing. They reacted to everything. Don't blame whitey for black deviance.

But they did lunge into it and you just said they did to protect someone so are they crazy or brave?

I bet I know which you'll choose because you havent finished making up the story so they'll be brave crazy people defending against evil

Oh yes. So here's what REALLY happened.

A group of young innocent black youths went walking by a sports bar in the middle of white supremacist Jim Crow Baltimore when they were confronted by a group of drunken white slave holders. One of the slave holders said "You ain't welcome here boy" to which the innocent black angel replied "I'm sorry my good fellow, I did not mean to offend, we'll be on our way." But right at that moment the slave holders got angry and lunged at the little black lambs who were forced to defend themselves from white aggression. After that, the black children made their way down the streets warming their neighbors homes free of charge and borrowing goods at the mom and pop shop. They even picked up some malt medicine for grandpa, and at the local CVS, some Oxycontin for grandmothers bunions. But it was too late. Wherever they went the innocent black angels were followed by those evil drunken white slave holders. These are the conditions those innocent black children suffer from in white supremacist Jim Crow Baltimore.

There, the story just as you like it.

Aww you got caught lying so now you want to make funny. Thats cute

 

[bucs90]

Ah. Got it. So the problem wasnt the baseball fans. It was the thugs.

Your thread has been derailed.

LOL! Ok....congrats. You can go now

Im sure you'd like me to go. Im destroying your thread. But im gonna rub it in.

The Orioles play 75 home games...every year.

No riots. Until the swarm of thugs shows up.

See the volatile ingredient?

Baltimore has 365 days every year. No riots until cops kill someone without cause.

Oh. When did that happen? Because Freddie Grays death is still under investigation. Speaking of...did you see he had spine surgery...yes...spinal surgery...the week before and defied doctors advice of staying home to instead go run from cops?

Of all these cop outrages....ONLY the North Charleston and Tulsa ones are legitimate gripes. And those men were charged.

I don't care if he had brain surgery. Cops shouldn't harm people that are not engaged in harming others.

He's dead and two weeks later people are still without an explanation.

Well....the OTHER prisoner in that van said the cops didnt do anything wrong (media ignoring this) and that Gray was "thrashing around" in that van. A week after spine surgery.

Get your riot goggles ready. Because the FACTS are gonna come out that Grays thrashing around ruptured his own spine...because he had just jad surgery on it.

Cops are guilty of nothing more than not seatbeltting him. A policy violation. Thats all...they'll get an unpaid suspension for a week or so.

 

[Ravi]

LOL! Ok....congrats. You can go now

Im sure you'd like me to go. Im destroying your thread. But im gonna rub it in.

The Orioles play 75 home games...every year.

No riots. Until the swarm of thugs shows up.

See the volatile ingredient?

Baltimore has 365 days every year. No riots until cops kill someone without cause.

Oh. When did that happen? Because Freddie Grays death is still under investigation. Speaking of...did you see he had spine surgery...yes...spinal surgery...the week before and defied doctors advice of staying home to instead go run from cops?

Of all these cop outrages....ONLY the North Charleston and Tulsa ones are legitimate gripes. And those men were charged.

I don't care if he had brain surgery. Cops shouldn't harm people that are not engaged in harming others.

He's dead and two weeks later people are still without an explanation.

Well....the OTHER prisoner in that van said the cops didnt do anything wrong (media ignoring this) and that Gray was "thrashing around" in that van. A week after spine surgery.

Get your riot goggles ready. Because the FACTS are gonna come out that Grays thrashing around ruptured his own spine...because he had just jad surgery on it.

Cops are guilty of nothing more than not seatbeltting him. A policy violation. Thats all...they'll get an unpaid suspension for a week or so.

Bullshit. I saw the video. He couldn't walk after the cops attacked him.

 

[Publius1787]

Notice he didn't post the video. Here's why

Thank you...I was looking for that. So tell me what are the white dudes yelling about and saying get back behind the fence for? Because they were chilling...behind the fence? LMAO

Initially a thug dumped a garbage can on them.

False, you just made that up

They went outside the fence to defend those on the inside of it.

False, again you just made that up

They would be crazy to lunge themselves into a crowd of black thugs. They instigated nothing. They reacted to everything. Don't blame whitey for black deviance.

But they did lunge into it and you just said they did to protect someone so are they crazy or brave?

I bet I know which you'll choose because you havent finished making up the story so they'll be brave crazy people defending against evil

Oh yes. So here's what REALLY happened.

A group of young innocent black youths went walking by a sports bar in the middle of white supremacist Jim Crow Baltimore when they were confronted by a group of drunken white slave holders. One of the slave holders said "You ain't welcome here boy" to which the innocent black angel replied "I'm sorry my good fellow, I did not mean to offend, we'll be on our way." But right at that moment the slave holders got angry and lunged at the little black lambs who were forced to defend themselves from white aggression. After that, the black children made their way down the streets warming their neighbors homes free of charge and borrowing goods at the mom and pop shop. They even picked up some malt medicine for grandpa, and at the local CVS, some Oxycontin for grandmothers bunions. But it was too late. Wherever they went the innocent black angels were followed by those evil drunken white slave holders. These are the conditions those innocent black children suffer from in white supremacist Jim Crow Baltimore.

There, the story just as you like it.

Aww you got caught lying so now you want to make funny. Thats cute

Its obvious the Sports fans were defending themselves. Especially the one in front of that lady in the wheelchair. No one at the bar incited hostilities among the black youth. That had gone on well before the bar incident. Now you need a white boogey man to take the heat off the black thugs. Not going to happen.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Most places I know of must score the empty liquor bottles and store them for abc and remove the pourer. So far as who got empy beer bottles, who knows? We have no pictures to show either throwing bottles.

Liquor and beer are the same? Because they were throwing beer bottles and one side was at an establishment that sells said bottles.

I know, tis a mystery

And you still miss the point all the way around. I don't even know why I bother with you. You will turn every story to another angle any chance you get. I at least stated that instigators from either side need to be held responsible. I've yet to ever see you do that.

Because I know what happened and I'm not racking my brain over simple shit like "Who most likely had beer bottles? A. Protesters or B. Drunk people at a bar"

Maybe once you figure out that I think your skills will increase substantially

 

[bucs90]

So apparently this reporter who typed the OP and someone on Social Media have a similar account of what happened. Total Coincidence though

Yet....the Orioles never have rights at the hundreds of home games they've had over the last decade. Until a swarm of thugs rolls in.

Its no different than your local shopping mall. No fights or shootings all week, especially daylight hours.

But Saturday nights...the thugs roll in. And violence begins.

Movie theaters? The Wednesday matinee show never has violence. But Friday's 1030pm showing of Fast and Furious? Yep. Thug life rolls in.

Bullshit. Ravens fans that come down here are all thugs and all of them are white.

I imagine a lot of Orioles fans are the same.

So why dont all the white thug Ravens fans riot at the ballpark?

 

[depotoo]

You do realize their were whites in the protests as well, right? And black bar patrons going to the game as well?

Ok...so who caused the problem...the thugs or the Orioles baeeball fans?

Because the Orioles play about 75 home games a year. And I dont see 75 Baltimore riots per year.

Good logic ya got there! Stunning really. They were rioting over the Orioles game!!!!

Ah. Got it. So the problem wasnt the baseball fans. It was the thugs.

Your thread has been derailed.

LOL! Ok....congrats. You can go now

Im sure you'd like me to go. Im destroying your thread. But im gonna rub it in.

The Orioles play 75 home games...every year.

No riots. Until the swarm of thugs shows up.

See the volatile ingredient?

Yeah I do, black people annoying whites with protests

 

[bucs90]

Most places I know of must score the empty liquor bottles and store them for abc and remove the pourer. So far as who got empy beer bottles, who knows? We have no pictures to show either throwing bottles.

Liquor and beer are the same? Because they were throwing beer bottles and one side was at an establishment that sells said bottles.

I know, tis a mystery

And you still miss the point all the way around. I don't even know why I bother with you. You will turn every story to another angle any chance you get. I at least stated that instigators from either side need to be held responsible. I've yet to ever see you do that.

Because I know what happened and I'm not racking my brain over simple shit like "Who most likely had beer bottles? A. Protesters or B. Drunk people at a bar"

Maybe once you figure out that I think your skills will increase substantially

Hmmm. Then why dont the Orioles have violence at all 70 home games? The magic ingredient for violence is almost always...thugs.

 

[ClosedCaption]

You do realize their were whites in the protests as well, right? And black bar patrons going to the game as well?

I also realize that you didnt make a point

 

[ClosedCaption]

Most places I know of must score the empty liquor bottles and store them for abc and remove the pourer. So far as who got empy beer bottles, who knows? We have no pictures to show either throwing bottles.

Liquor and beer are the same? Because they were throwing beer bottles and one side was at an establishment that sells said bottles.

I know, tis a mystery

And you still miss the point all the way around. I don't even know why I bother with you. You will turn every story to another angle any chance you get. I at least stated that instigators from either side need to be held responsible. I've yet to ever see you do that.

Because I know what happened and I'm not racking my brain over simple shit like "Who most likely had beer bottles? A. Protesters or B. Drunk people at a bar"

Maybe once you figure out that I think your skills will increase substantially

Hmmm. Then why dont the Orioles have violence at all 70 home games? The magic ingredient for violence is almost always...thugs.

I already told you...white people get mad when blacks assert their claim to having "rights" and demand "justice"

I told you that in the OP.

Did you see it?

 

[ClosedCaption]

There is also Video thats about 15 seconds long that shows the incident with the guys coming through the gates confronting people. Why? Because talking about anything black makes them angry

Like this thread will

You missed that in the OP...and just like I said white people get so angry they type 8 pages about it

 

[depotoo]

And once again, here you go, not once willing to acknowledge any wrongs by any protesters. And you have yet to acknowledge I have stated anyone from either group, be it bar patrons or protesters, that instigated anything should be held responsible. Something I have yet to see you do.

Most places I know of must score the empty liquor bottles and store them for abc and remove the pourer. So far as who got empy beer bottles, who knows? We have no pictures to show either throwing bottles.

Liquor and beer are the same? Because they were throwing beer bottles and one side was at an establishment that sells said bottles.

I know, tis a mystery

And you still miss the point all the way around. I don't even know why I bother with you. You will turn every story to another angle any chance you get. I at least stated that instigators from either side need to be held responsible. I've yet to ever see you do that.

Because I know what happened and I'm not racking my brain over simple shit like "Who most likely had beer bottles? A. Protesters or B. Drunk people at a bar"

Maybe once you figure out that I think your skills will increase substantially

 

[Ravi]

Most places I know of must score the empty liquor bottles and store them for abc and remove the pourer. So far as who got empy beer bottles, who knows? We have no pictures to show either throwing bottles.

Liquor and beer are the same? Because they were throwing beer bottles and one side was at an establishment that sells said bottles.

I know, tis a mystery

And you still miss the point all the way around. I don't even know why I bother with you. You will turn every story to another angle any chance you get. I at least stated that instigators from either side need to be held responsible. I've yet to ever see you do that.

Because I know what happened and I'm not racking my brain over simple shit like "Who most likely had beer bottles? A. Protesters or B. Drunk people at a bar"

Maybe once you figure out that I think your skills will increase substantially

Hmmm. Then why dont the Orioles have violence at all 70 home games? The magic ingredient for violence is almost always...thugs.

Why doesn't Baltimore have riots 365 days a year?

 

[Uncensored2008]

How drunk sports fans helped spark Saturday night s post-protest violence - citypaper.com

City Paper

4:22 a.m. EDT, April 28, 2015


On Saturday night, following the violence that broke out near Camden Yards, a photo of me supposedly protecting a woman from violent protesters surfaced on BuzzFeed and then trickled down to the conservative armpit of the internet where it was mischaracterized. In the photo, I look strangely heroic, and the picture was quickly co-opted by those who like to present an all-too-common and easy narrative: white people being terrorized by black people.

The truth, or as much as I have been able to cobble together from my own memory and notes, videos online, video I shot, and videos from City Paper’s Managing Editor Baynard Woods, is far less interesting, though much more important than “white dude saves white lady.”

I’m not exactly sure how the violence broke out around 6 p.m. in front of Pickles Pub on Washington Boulevard and traveled up the street to The Bullpen, Sliders Bar & Grill, and Frank & Nic’s West End Grille then down Howard Street. I know a small group of protesters and a small group of baseball fans started whipping bottles at one another and brawling. When the protesters turned the corner onto Washington Boulevard from Camden Street chanting “black lives matter,” some baseball fans applauded and a few angrily chanted back, “We don’t care”—someone who worked at The Bullpen confirmed this for me. He also said that some patrons chanted “run them over,” and one yelled “go get them.” Other protestors, including City Paper contributor D. Watkins and gang members interviewed on WBAL, recall bar patrons calling them “*******,” among other racist epithets.

I don’t know who threw something first, but I heard a shift to jeers and boos from the people drinking and ran right over to it and saw beers being tossed from behind a gate that keeps Pickles drinkers from standing in the road and bottles being whipped back at the drinkers. Some people at Pickles stood up and moved toward the protesters though they were protected by the gate. Then, protesters pulled away the gate protecting Pickles customers from the street. Men from Pickles and elsewhere charged toward the protesters and the protesters charged the Pickles customers. It was at this point that I stopped being a journalist and became someone who was trying to help out.

A young woman from the bar threw a stool at me and others, and then affected a “come at me bro” stance. At the same time, many protesters were trying to tell the ones who were fighting and throwing things to stop causing trouble and keep moving. Some protesters began to grab bags of peanuts from a small stand and throw them at the people at the bar. The woman who threw the stool got hit in the face with a bag of peanuts and she went down. I helped her back up.

I retreated and noticed another woman from the bar, who earlier had thrown a chair, was now following the group as it moved up Washington Boulevard, pleading with them to stop. I ran up to her and told her to get back. She pushed me away, which is both a reasonable response to someone screaming at you and also a completely bizarre response to someone who is telling you to go inside, you’re going to get hurt.

At some point around here, a fight started in front of Sliders. Protesters and bar customers were fighting. The videos show people on both sides who wanted to fight and were excited to fight and embraced the opportunity.

The pleading woman followed the protesters up to the bar Frank & Nic’s. She was reaching out at people and yelling. I stopped her from walking toward a protester who was throwing a chair at a window, and that’s when the picture was taken. City Paper contributors Caitlin Goldblatt and Gianna DeCarlo were also talking to the woman at this point and a protester with a big bag and a bottle of vodka that he clearly stole from one of the bars (it has a pourer on it) approached her. That’s where we got the image of a protester, who was most certainly looting, who looks like he’s stealing a purse, but I was there and I’m really not sure if that’s what is happening.

In part, it also seems like it was a failure of security, who didn’t stop customers from jeering at the protesters. I was also told by employees at the bars that they had a discussion beforehand about how bad it would be if O’s fans who “every game, drink way too much” encountered protesters. The protesters who got violent weren’t from “out of town,” by the way. Some of their faces were recognizable to me as people who had been with the protests. Here were drunk, angry, white baseball fans and bar-goers who were equally guilty for the violence that happened that night and embraced the chance to fight and provoked some of it, and any accurate narrative must acknowledge that and barely anyone has acknowledged that. If you’d like to call Baltimore County whites and Boston Red Sox fans “outside agitators,” then you’ve got your outside agitators.

- See more at: How drunk sports fans helped spark Saturday night s post-protest violence - citypaper.com

There is also Video thats about 15 seconds long that shows the incident with the guys coming through the gates confronting people. Why? Because talking about anything black makes them angry

Like this thread will

It all be whitey faute...

ROFL

Could you be more of a pathetic fucktard?

 

[ClosedCaption]

And once again, here you go, not once willing to acknowledge any wrongs by any protesters. And you have yet to acknowledge I have stated anyone from either group, be it bar patrons or protesters, that instigated anything should be held responsible. Something I have yet to see you do.

Most places I know of must score the empty liquor bottles and store them for abc and remove the pourer. So far as who got empy beer bottles, who knows? We have no pictures to show either throwing bottles.

Liquor and beer are the same? Because they were throwing beer bottles and one side was at an establishment that sells said bottles.

I know, tis a mystery

And you still miss the point all the way around. I don't even know why I bother with you. You will turn every story to another angle any chance you get. I at least stated that instigators from either side need to be held responsible. I've yet to ever see you do that.

Because I know what happened and I'm not racking my brain over simple shit like "Who most likely had beer bottles? A. Protesters or B. Drunk people at a bar"

Maybe once you figure out that I think your skills will increase substantially

Why would I do anything that you arent willing to do? FOH

 

[bucs90]

Most places I know of must score the empty liquor bottles and store them for abc and remove the pourer. So far as who got empy beer bottles, who knows? We have no pictures to show either throwing bottles.

Liquor and beer are the same? Because they were throwing beer bottles and one side was at an establishment that sells said bottles.

I know, tis a mystery

And you still miss the point all the way around. I don't even know why I bother with you. You will turn every story to another angle any chance you get. I at least stated that instigators from either side need to be held responsible. I've yet to ever see you do that.

Because I know what happened and I'm not racking my brain over simple shit like "Who most likely had beer bottles? A. Protesters or B. Drunk people at a bar"

Maybe once you figure out that I think your skills will increase substantially

Hmmm. Then why dont the Orioles have violence at all 70 home games? The magic ingredient for violence is almost always...thugs.

I already told you...white people get mad when blacks assert their claim to having "rights" and demand "justice"

I told you that in the OP.

Did you see it?

No. We get mad when they block streets and come into peaceful areas trying to agitate shit. Over a percieved injustice...that somehow law abiding black folks managed to avoid.

 

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How drunk sports fans helped spark Saturday night s post-protest violence - citypaper.com

City Paper

4:22 a.m. EDT, April 28, 2015


On Saturday night, following the violence that broke out near Camden Yards, a photo of me supposedly protecting a woman from violent protesters surfaced on BuzzFeed and then trickled down to the conservative armpit of the internet where it was mischaracterized. In the photo, I look strangely heroic, and the picture was quickly co-opted by those who like to present an all-too-common and easy narrative: white people being terrorized by black people.

The truth, or as much as I have been able to cobble together from my own memory and notes, videos online, video I shot, and videos from City Paper’s Managing Editor Baynard Woods, is far less interesting, though much more important than “white dude saves white lady.”

I’m not exactly sure how the violence broke out around 6 p.m. in front of Pickles Pub on Washington Boulevard and traveled up the street to The Bullpen, Sliders Bar & Grill, and Frank & Nic’s West End Grille then down Howard Street. I know a small group of protesters and a small group of baseball fans started whipping bottles at one another and brawling. When the protesters turned the corner onto Washington Boulevard from Camden Street chanting “black lives matter,” some baseball fans applauded and a few angrily chanted back, “We don’t care”—someone who worked at The Bullpen confirmed this for me. He also said that some patrons chanted “run them over,” and one yelled “go get them.” Other protestors, including City Paper contributor D. Watkins and gang members interviewed on WBAL, recall bar patrons calling them “*******,” among other racist epithets.

I don’t know who threw something first, but I heard a shift to jeers and boos from the people drinking and ran right over to it and saw beers being tossed from behind a gate that keeps Pickles drinkers from standing in the road and bottles being whipped back at the drinkers. Some people at Pickles stood up and moved toward the protesters though they were protected by the gate. Then, protesters pulled away the gate protecting Pickles customers from the street. Men from Pickles and elsewhere charged toward the protesters and the protesters charged the Pickles customers. It was at this point that I stopped being a journalist and became someone who was trying to help out.

A young woman from the bar threw a stool at me and others, and then affected a “come at me bro” stance. At the same time, many protesters were trying to tell the ones who were fighting and throwing things to stop causing trouble and keep moving. Some protesters began to grab bags of peanuts from a small stand and throw them at the people at the bar. The woman who threw the stool got hit in the face with a bag of peanuts and she went down. I helped her back up.

I retreated and noticed another woman from the bar, who earlier had thrown a chair, was now following the group as it moved up Washington Boulevard, pleading with them to stop. I ran up to her and told her to get back. She pushed me away, which is both a reasonable response to someone screaming at you and also a completely bizarre response to someone who is telling you to go inside, you’re going to get hurt.

At some point around here, a fight started in front of Sliders. Protesters and bar customers were fighting. The videos show people on both sides who wanted to fight and were excited to fight and embraced the opportunity.

The pleading woman followed the protesters up to the bar Frank & Nic’s. She was reaching out at people and yelling. I stopped her from walking toward a protester who was throwing a chair at a window, and that’s when the picture was taken. City Paper contributors Caitlin Goldblatt and Gianna DeCarlo were also talking to the woman at this point and a protester with a big bag and a bottle of vodka that he clearly stole from one of the bars (it has a pourer on it) approached her. That’s where we got the image of a protester, who was most certainly looting, who looks like he’s stealing a purse, but I was there and I’m really not sure if that’s what is happening.

In part, it also seems like it was a failure of security, who didn’t stop customers from jeering at the protesters. I was also told by employees at the bars that they had a discussion beforehand about how bad it would be if O’s fans who “every game, drink way too much” encountered protesters. The protesters who got violent weren’t from “out of town,” by the way. Some of their faces were recognizable to me as people who had been with the protests. Here were drunk, angry, white baseball fans and bar-goers who were equally guilty for the violence that happened that night and embraced the chance to fight and provoked some of it, and any accurate narrative must acknowledge that and barely anyone has acknowledged that. If you’d like to call Baltimore County whites and Boston Red Sox fans “outside agitators,” then you’ve got your outside agitators.

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There is also Video thats about 15 seconds long that shows the incident with the guys coming through the gates confronting people. Why? Because talking about anything black makes them angry

Like this thread will

It all be whitey faute...

ROFL

Could you be more of a pathetic fucktard?

LOOK at the anger...Told you in the OP LOL