At the height of the unrest in Baltimore
last year, 18-year-old Allen Bullock climbed on top of a police cruiser, raised
an orange traffic cone over his head and smashed it through the car’s
windshield. He did this action because he had lost a friend of his whose name
is Freddie Gray that had been killed because of the cruel treats given to him
by the police. A year after the Baltimore uprising, he’s one of the only people
serving significant time for the incidents surrounding Gray’s death. He was
given serving six months of a potential 12-year prison sentence. And while
Bullock may have eventually gotten out of jail while he awaited trial, Gordon
says Baltimore police continued to harass his client over the following months.
The interesting part of this story is that
yet Bullock’s actions were dangerous and were done way over, I think it still
had a political speech that not to look down on Blacks. But still they cannot
be treated as normal white men would be treated in the city.
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