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Baltimore Cops Worse Than Thirties Gangsters
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
29 Jan 2018
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The Baltimore police officers charged with robbing and planting guns and drugs on citizens are “worse than gangsters back in the Thirties, because it’s the law doing it,” said Carl Dix, co-founder of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network. Community members believe the scandal surrounding the police Gun Trace Task Force is linked to the shooting death of a police sargeant, last year, that resulted in the lockdown and siege of a Black neighborhood. The murdered officer had “helped to get the case going, and then he was mysteriously killed” and the blame was shifted to the community, said Dix, a native of Baltimore.

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