The city of Baltimore has been facing riots for several days now. The riots began because another young, black man was left dead by the hands of the police.

The man, Freddie Gray, was placed in custody for making eye contact with the police and then running. He did not break the law, so why did the police chase him? Some might say, “Why did he run?” No one knows, but typically, young men will run when they see the police because they are scared of what the police might do to them. Gray somehow ended up with a broken spine, several broken ribs and then later died from his injuries. There was no explanation for his death from the police or city officials and today there is still no explanation for the death of this man.

That’s what caused the community to start marching peacefully: to learn the reason for the young man’s death. And when they received no answers, they marched to City Hall to speak with the mayor in hope of some answers. Where they were met with people making racial remarks towards them.

These types of occurrences are not new to any large city in America. The city of Baltimore in the last four years has had over 100 people win judgments or settlements in court for police brutality. And those are just the cases that won. Imagine how many cases never even made it to court. When you have this many cases of misconduct, you would think that someone in charge at the police force would say, “Hey what the hell is going on here? There are too many of these cases coming to my desk!” With all of the misconduct, you would think someone would start looking into it. But no one has, so now we find the city of Baltimore in an uproar.

But the same police that are asking for the community to calm down are the ones that have caused the situation to begin with. As much money that has been spent on settlements, it could have been used to help improve the community.

The community is asking the officials what should they do, and are getting no answers. Although violence is never the answer we say so why is this country always at war? And it did get the attention of the country and force people to take a look at what is going on in Baltimore.

You hear people talking about the burning of a building in the media, but not about a man’s life the building can be rebuilt but they cant bring back the life of that young man are any of the young men that have been killed.

So was the violence a bad thing? Yes, But did some good come out of it? Yes, after this incident all the gangs stop fighting and had a truce. That is a good thing, now how will the media put their spin on that is. They came together to fight the police not true. Who made that up and does the media have any quotes, from any of the gang members in that city to support that? No.

Most of the time when you bring up police brutality, the police bring up black on black crime from thugs and stray away from the topic. OK, we know that it happens, but we don’t expect that from the ones who are supposed to protect and serve us.

A lot of this comes from unfair practices in the community. Yale University did a field experiment showing just how much race plays in the job world and in just about everything.

Some students at Yale made resumes exactly the same, but the only difference was the name on the resumes. The one with the black sounding name, Dante, were overlooked at a rate of 50 percent over resumes with the name David on them.

Now, this went on with loan applications, and in the justice system were blacks were found to get more time for the same crime then whites did. Now is that fair and these are facts from Yale University

So the people who don’t want to see the truth won’t see it no matter how you bring it to them.

And when you bring up the truth some people look at you as if you are anti-American and that’s not the case we love America the people just want to hear the truth.

This country spends millions of dollars on wars and sending robots to Mars but can’t invest in our public schools. That doesn’t help things. So if we want these types of problems to end, we have to pull them up by the root of the problem. The roots are jobs, education, housing, and making a more even playing field by investing in our communities across this country. The problem won’t go away. It needs correcting,

from the core of the problem.