article_snippet.sent: Kweisi Mfume, Baltimore native and former president of the NAACP, said, "It's important we not shift the focus into something that has absolutely nothing to do with poverty, despair, hunger, homelessness and a sense of not belonging."
article_snippet.sent: What matters is how do we take back we streets.
article_snippet.sent: And that's what men have been doing, going around, talking to these young men where men, are in men face, and letting men know, you can't control this community.
article_snippet.sent: But I'm more worried about a movement, and it's not necessarily a movement for positive change.
article_snippet.sent: It's a movement for negative change right now unless we get it under control.
article_snippet.sent: Kevin Shird, another Baltimore native and author of "Lessons of Redemption added, "We just want to stay focused on the issue of police brutality and of the Freddie Gray matter.