Fells Point Tax Revolt Leads Baltimore Police to “Flood the Zone.”
Thirty-seven Baltimore businesses threatened a taxpayer revolt unless the city provided sufficient police protection to the Fells Points community. Counter-protestors threatened to boycott these same businesses unless they paid taxes. The politics of police protection in Baltimore is the topic of this podcast.
“We’ve reached our breaking point”: 37 Fells Point businesses threaten not to pay taxes | WBFF (foxbaltimore.com)
After businesses threaten not to pay taxes, the Baltimore Police Department floods the zone with cops!
Petition · Demand Fells Point Businesses Retract Their Letter · Change.org
Anti-tax-revolt citizens threaten to boycott Fells Point businesses. Another wrinkle in the politics of criminal justice.
Baltimore police investigating overnight shooting in Fells Point that damaged multiple vehicles –
It ain’t over ‘til it’s over. After the show was recorded on Sunday morning, June 13, 2021, and Clarke Ahlers specifically referred to the fact that there was no Baltimore Sun article on trouble in Fells Point, this article appeared. The bottom line is that even an overwhelming police presence in Fells Point did not prevent at least one firearm incident.
How Literacy Became a Powerful Weapon in the Fight to End Slavery – HISTORY
In the Fells Point episode, Serge Antonin describes laws that made it a crime to teach African-Americans to read. Serge asserts, and Clarke agrees, that this historical fact is evidence that the criminal justice system was used to perpetuate a permanent underclass status, even for freed slaves. This historical fact is the greatest and most important take-away from this episode.
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