First, Freddie Gray dies while in the Baltimore police department’s custody, followed by protests which turned sufficiently chaotic where fans attending a Baltimore Orioles game earlier this week were not permitted to leave Camden Yards.
Then, sportscaster Brett Hollander began to beef about the rights of commuting Orioles fans being violated by the inconvenience of a rebellion in progress:
People of a community should be able to commute, commerce should happen & citizens who want to go to a ballgame should be able to go. (3/4)
— Brett Hollander (@BrettHollander) April 26, 2015
Which received a 20-tweet response by Orioles’ COO John Angelos about how the rights of others to have prosperous lives without being shot, spied-on or over-incarcerated are arguably more important:
@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop Brett speaking only for myself i agree with your point that the principle of peaceful, non-violent protest — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop and the observance of the rule of law is of utmost importance in any society. MLK, Gandhi, Mandela, and all — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop great opposition leaders throughout history have always preached this precept. Further, it is critical . — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop that in any democracy investigation must be completed and due process must be honored before any government — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop or police members are judged responsible. That said, my greater source of personal concern, outrage and — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop sympathy beyond this particular case is focused neither upon one night’s property damage nor upon the acts — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop group but is focused rather upon the past four-decade period during which an American political elite — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop have shipped middle class and working class jobs away from Baltimore and cities and towns around the US to — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop 3rd world dictatorships like China and others plunged tens of millions of good hard working americans — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop into economic devastation and then followed that action around the nation by diminishing every American’s — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop civil rights protections in order to control an unfairly impoverished population living under an ever- — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop declining standard of living and suffering at the butt end of an ever-more militarized and aggressive — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop surveillance state. The innocent working families of all backgrounds whose lives and dreams have been cut — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop short by excessive violence, surveillance, and other abuses of the bill of rights by government pay the — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop true price, an ultimate price, and one that far exceeds the importance of any kids’ game played — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop tonight, or ever, at Camden Yards. We need to keep in mind people are suffering and dying around the US and — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop while we are thankful no one was injured at Camden Yards, there is a far bigger picture for poor Americans — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop in Baltimore and everywhere who don’t have jobs and are losing economic civil and legal rights and this is — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop makes inconvenience at a ball game irrelevant in light of the needless suffering government is inflicting — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
@BrettHollander@ThBaltimoreChop upon ordinary Americans. — John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015
It’s quite easy to say that Hollander, and others who think like him, have been thoroughly schooled…
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