It’s a gathering that brings together Baltimore’s furtive network of white elites, which is spread over a network of a dozen prep schools and half a dozen country clubs, which is employed by Johns Hopkins and T. Rowe Price and Legg Mason (all headquartered here in Baltimore). Hunt Cup means that spring is here. Hunt Cup means that you can eat canapes out of the back of your car. Hunt Cup means that men will hold porta-potty doors. Hunt Cup means that you can smoke pot in front of the cops...

It was nearing three and the lot was beginning to fill up. People were getting rowdier. The music was getting louder. As if on cue, the sun broke through the clouds.

“Pete, Pete, Pete, Pete, what up? What up?” screamed a girl in an aqua Lilly Pulitzer shift, stumbling as she ran across the lawn to embrace her friend.

This would not be the last time that I heard hip hop-inflected language at the Hunt Cup. In fact, as I walked up and down the rows of tailgaters, I noticed that the music bumping out of cars was overwhelmingly hip hop...

As I made my way through the crowd, two girls in nearly identical white sundresses ran up to me. They were both 16 and lithe, with hair that was either dark blonde or light brown. They both wore subtle but immaculate makeup, and delicate chain necklaces, one with a tiny gold circle, the other with a tiny silver heart. Their names were Ziggy and Jenna.

“Are you taking everybody’s picture?” Ziggy asked.

I explained that I was writing a story for a website, and that I was taking pictures and doing interviews.

“It’s a good social scene,” Ziggy said. “In the olden days, boys used to ask girls out on dates. Now we just party.”

Behind me, a boy yelled “I’ll fuck you up, nigga!” He laughed.

“We get to dress up and look nice during the day,” Jenna said.

Someone called to them, and they ran off screaming.

I talked to two boys, both seniors at Loyola Blakefield. One had braces and dimples, and both sported the lacrosse flip, a shaggy hairstyle that is just short enough to evade prep school dress code restrictions. They stood next to a big new pickup truck with an American flag planted firmly in the back. The boy with the dimples made a sideways peace sign for my camera.

“Do you guys read the news?” I asked.

“Sometimes,” the boy with the dimples said.

“Do you know about what’s going on in Baltimore?”

“Yeah, the riot,” he said. “My dad wouldn’t let me go to the O’s game last night because of the riot. He was worried I might be in danger.”

He was referring to Friday night, the night I went to the police station to find no one but the neighbors hanging out and the two police on duty.

“Do you know why the riot is happening?” I asked, not correcting him.

“No,” he shook his head, half paying attention.

“Do you have any thoughts about that?” I asked.

“No,” he said. “Enjoy the race.”

Nearby, a copper Land Rover bumped trap music, the bass on high. The smell of weed wafted through the air. The cops were close enough to smell it, but they kept directing traffic...

I stopped a boy in yellow shorts and a pastel plaid shirt and a girl in a white dress.

“Do you know about the protest?” I asked.

“It’s kind of stupid,” the boy in the yellow shorts said. “I think it’s a racial thing. Just because one African-American man died, they all team up. But we’re all the same.”

I walked by a 30-something man puffing a cigar.

“No diggity, no doubt,” he laughed to his friend.

http://gawker.com/baltimore-is-a-shithole-undisturbed-peace-at-the-mar-1700526944

The story was gross two days ago, but it’s something even worse now that Baltimore state attorney Marilyn Mosby has charged the six cops involved in Freddie Gray’s death with crimes that include second-degree murder and manslaughter. Which is to say nothing of Donta Allen, the other prisoner in the van that the Post chose not to name, telling a local television station that the report leaked to the Post was distorted by the cops:

Via Baltimore’s CBS affiliate:

He tells WJZ he’s angry about an internal police report published in The Washington Post.

“And they trying to make it seem like I told them that, I made it like Freddie Gray did that to hisself (sic),” Allen said. “Why the would he do that to hisself (sic)?”

Allen was in the van because he allegedly stole a cigarette from a store on North Avenue.

He was never charged. Instead he was brought straight to the station.

“I talked to homicide. I told homicide the same story.” Allen said.

A story he says is being distorted and now he fears being killed.

“I had two options today right, either come and talk to y’all and get my credibility straight with ya’ll and not get killed by these or not tell a true story,” Allen added. “The only reason I’m doing this is because they put my name in a bad state.”

Petrol posted:

http://tktk.gawker.com/the-washington-posts-police-problem-1701548936/

The story was gross two days ago, but it’s something even worse now that Baltimore state attorney Marilyn Mosby has charged the six cops involved in Freddie Gray’s death with crimes that include second-degree murder and manslaughter. Which is to say nothing of Donta Allen, the other prisoner in the van that the Post chose not to name, telling a local television station that the report leaked to the Post was distorted by the cops:

Via Baltimore’s CBS affiliate:

He tells WJZ he’s angry about an internal police report published in The Washington Post.

“And they trying to make it seem like I told them that, I made it like Freddie Gray did that to hisself (sic),” Allen said. “Why the would he do that to hisself (sic)?”

Allen was in the van because he allegedly stole a cigarette from a store on North Avenue.

He was never charged. Instead he was brought straight to the station.

“I talked to homicide. I told homicide the same story.” Allen said.

A story he says is being distorted and now he fears being killed.

“I had two options today right, either come and talk to y’all and get my credibility straight with ya’ll and not get killed by these or not tell a true story,” Allen added. “The only reason I’m doing this is because they put my name in a bad state.”

yea leaking that shit was pretty unforgivable. esp since it turns out it's pretty much confirmed freddie grays spine was severed before that guy even got in the vehicle

Edited by ilmdge (May 2, 2015 16:59:50)

discipline posted:

alan dershowitz is possibly the scummiest person on earth

i met him once and he was very affable and rhetorically persuasive, true story