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Powerful New Time Magazine Cover

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Gregg Chadwick  ‏ @ greggchadwick     12m 12 minutes ago Sant a Monica, CA Powerful new @ Time Magazine cover - photo by 26 year old West Baltimore resident, Devin Allen - @ byDVNLLN

Requiem for Eddie Gray - The Blue Line in Charm City

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by Gregg Chadwick   From Birth - Baltimore April 2015 Photo by  Lara Davidson * " Schoolteachers, Johns Hopkins employees, film crew people, kids, retirees, everybody went to the city jail. If you think I’m exaggerating, look it up. " - David Simon on Baltimore's anguish.  "Are you going to tell me the story of my life, or am I going to tell you yours." - Baltimore Resident to me in a coffee shop near  City Recreation Pier in the  Fells Point  neighborhood in Baltimore in the late 1990's.   Homicide: Life on the Street's police department scenes were all shot there . Eddie Gray's death at the hands of the Baltimore Police Department is sadly not an isolated event. To understand the current situation in Baltimore, it pays to read the thoughts of  David Simon   on Baltimore’s Anguish:  Freddie Gray, the drug war, and the decline of “real policing” in  The Marshall Project.  David Simon's history with Charm Cit...