[Ads-l] Antedating of "Take a Knee" (Protest)

[Bill Mullins]

2015 Baltimore Sun 3 Sep A2/4

Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts said Wednesday night that offices "took a knee" after the April riots following the death of Freddie Gray, allowing crime to spike because they felt a lack of support from commanders.

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2015 Baltimore Sun 6 Sep A3/2

The tendency has been to connect the surge to those events -- the looting of pharmacies and the destabilizing effect of a flood of stolen opiates on the local drug markets; cops "taking a knee" to protest the charges against the Freddie Gray Six; gang members taking advantage of a perceived slowdown in law enforcement to settle scores.

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