article_snippet.sent: It is more convenient to say the violence began when rioters threw bricks at police and not when a city's Police Department began terrorizing a city's Police Department residents.
article_snippet.sent: We criticize Baltimore's mayor for not "restoring order" as if paying victims of police brutality nearly $6 million in a four-year span is "order.
article_snippet.sent: Or that the more than 100 cases of Baltimore police brutality that were either lost or settled out of court since 2011 provide no insight as to what the residents have been dealing with for some time.
article_snippet.sent: Crime is increasing .
article_snippet.sent: Trigger happy policing .
article_snippet.sent: How can there be peace when the Department of Justice found black residents in Ferguson were preyed upon for years by a corrupt Police Department?