Pat McDonough, a conservative radio show host, to issue a statement asking the governor to send in the Maryland State Police to control “roving mobs of black youths”…
Excerpted from Baltimore Sun: A 19-year-old student from Baltimore Polytechnic High School told police he was beaten by two separate groups of juveniles in downtown Baltimore on Thursday afternoon, an attack that comes amid a pitched debate over downtown safety.
According to police, the student was walking in the 200 block of W. Fayette St., a block north of the First Mariner Arena, before 4:20 p.m. when he said he was attacked from behind by an unknown male. Nine other juveniles joined in as he tried to defend himself, and his phone was taken during the attack, he told police. Nine other juveniles joined in as he tried to defend himself, and his phone was taken during the attack, he told police. Moments later, police say, an MTA bus stopped in the block and a juvenile male wearing a Digital Harbor shirt “forced open the door and got off the bus,” followed by 19 other juveniles wearing Digital Harbor shirts, who again assaulted the victim, police said.