House Raid Illustrates How Baltimore Police Refuse to Take Black Residents Rights Seriously

On Monday, April 16, Baltimore City Police stormed into a home full of grieving friends and family on the 400 block of East Lanvale Street, looking, they said, for two people who had just been involved in a shootout a short distance away on Preston Street and subsequently ran into the Lanvale St. home.

Video of the raid recorded by a resident and broadcasted by ABC Channel 2 shows police in S.W.A.T. gear slinking up to the home, rifles out, and one officer giving the family orders, asking some of them to slowly crawl out of the home....read more.