Baltimore 'Safe Streets' director Dante Barksdale fatally shot in the head at housing project

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/c...0210117-vfz43kphhjgnnjfdddef4lvmbq-story.html

Dante Barksdale, the well-known face of Baltimore’s violence-prevention program Safe Streets who helped lead the crime-fighting initiative for more than a decade, was shot to death Sunday, city officials confirmed.

Barksdale, fondly known as “Tater,” was shot in the head in the Douglass Homes housing project around 11:15 a.m. A few weeks earlier, one resident said, he had delivered winter coats to families at the complex.

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First off, I feel terrible for this man's friends and family. He didn't deserve such an end.

This will likely not appear on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, and the Orwellian silencing of real events will never be heard by Americans that depend on these corrupt sources for their information.

More people will die in Baltimore tonight, that died as a result of violence at the "insurrection" in D.C. earlier this month. The sheepal will never know.

 

And so, EXACTLY what part of that OP "Comment" is supposed to fulfill the requirement of:

"sufficient elaboration to establish a foundation for respectful discussion and debate"?

It looks to me like you are just using this man's death to Bash what you (mistakenly) perceive as "LW Media Bias".
That, and to Insult people (who have a different opinion) with name-calling like "sheepal".

Anyway, I think we can all agree that this man's death was tragic.
And, his family has my sympathies.

 

lol @ pretend mod. Nothing on topic by you except an RIP. Next.

 

the insurrection was a coordinated attack on America's historic monument

black on black violence is not the same as radicalized terrorism.

 

First of all, I did not know of Dante Barksdale. Very interesting story. Very inspiring life. Tragic death.
But you really live in an alternate, fact free universe. Just google Dante Barksdale. EVERY major main stream media is reporting on it.
So can you just admit you were totally mistaken about some 'plot' to silence this story? Or are you going to continue in alternate universe mode and claim that sure, NOW they are talking about it because they were uncovered by righteous right wing truth seekers?
Really curious what your source was that claimed that this story was being covered up.
In the future, it would behoove you to do a google search when you read some 'fact' that gels perfectly with your world view. 3 seconds would have proven your statement eronious.

 

Black on black violence still results in hundreds of deaths in Chicago alone every year. Now add in other cities like Baltimore it will be much higher.

It's still a big problem and one ignored by the news and the left. Since you don't see it as terrorism you must not think it's all that bad?

 

The news covers up or refuses to talk about most violence that comes from the left. That is what I have noticed.

If a single Trump supporter kills someone it is all over the news but daily shootings in Chicago are just "meh" to the left biased news.

 

Those are absolutely valid points. And I have no problem discussing them in a grown up way. The OP claiming that some widely reported story is being covered up by the left, and that we are all sheepal being kept in the dark by the cabal of main stream media on the other hand does not deserve discussion. Especially since a 3 second google search puts a complete lie to his story.

 

That’s the only response you could come up with. He addressed your post directly.

And you did use this story as an excuse to construct an empty rant (and presumably self fulfilling prophecy) about how national media probably won’t cover a street crime in Baltimore. It is a local story, period.

But none of us missed your brazenly dishonest attempt to equate this street crime against one individual to an organized insurrection against the United States government backed by the loser of the last election.

 

I was curious about that too. I’ve very sure that the OP had never heard of Dante Barksdale 24 hours ago.

 

Street crime and crime that is politically incited are very different themes.

Urban crime has always existed.

It never stormed the Capitol.

 

~ Obviously you do not believe that " Black Lives Matter " ...

 

Very tragic death for someone who was trying to help make things better. Baltimore is like many other democratic run cities with a high population of black people. We are supposed to pretend it doesn't exist, we're supposed to pretend that evil white supremacist are the real danger, we're supposed to pretend that adding in millions of illegals to this mix is our strength. Most of us know better.

 

Trayvon was an insignificant local story too...until it wasn’t, because Obama and other prominent Dem leaders gave it attention through uninformed ignorant opinions. Then the MSM showed misleading photos making people believe he was just a sweet kid, and Zimmerman was a “WHITE Hispanic”.

So spare us please. Like every black on black example of violence, the MSM will push it down and ignore it as ALWAYS. Then they’ll LIE about systemic racism again and again and again which was the leading reason for all the riots. MSM and Democrats ONLY highlighting certain crime will be our downfall, convincing millions of blatant a LIES!!

 

Is every major main stream media really reporting on this man's death, like having panel discussions and trying to figure out what's wrong in Baltimore, or did they just copy and paste a story onto their website?

 

And the same can be said for George Floyd. Drug using, woman beating, career criminal Floyd had 3 nationally televised funerals, nationwide riots, calls for police reform and parks named after him and Harris called him a hero. Dante Barksdale appears to be a stand up guy with a much more respectable character and he'll be forgotten by tomorrow.

 

And the very same could be said about places like Detroit, Philly, Los Angeles, Chicago, Memphis...I mean there actually is a list of places where just daily life is the fear of violent murder just for sitting in your house and getting hit by stray rounds from a gang fight.

Democrats like to squelch that information though. It is, after all, the way they fund raise and guilt taxes from the people...

 

The main stream media does keep you in the dark for anything they don't want you to see.

A reporter for ABC was secretly recorded saying they only show negative things about Trump on the news and never any positive stories for him. The news does see you all as sheep.

However you are arguing that the OP story was covered by the news. A Google search brought up only a hand full of websites talking about it including CNN so you are somewhat right but the OP's point still stands as far as the news is concerned.

The news is literally propaganda for the Democrats.