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Ocelot II

(126,787 posts) Sat Aug 9, 2025, 11:46 PM Aug 9

6 wounded, including 5-year-old girl, in Baltimore 'mass shooting'

Source: ABC News

Six people were wounded, including a 5-year-old girl, in a "mass shooting" in a Baltimore neighborhood Saturday night, police said.

The gunfire broke out shortly before 8:50 p.m. as people near the intersection of Spaulding and Queensberry Avenues gathered outside to eat, Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley told reporters at a news conference late Saturday night.

The 5-year-old girl was struck in the hand. "Thankfully, it doesn't appear that her injury is very serious," Worley said.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/baltimore-police-respond-scene-mass-shooting/story?id=124517463

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6 wounded, including 5-year-old girl, in Baltimore 'mass shooting' (Original Post) Ocelot II Aug 9 OP

Bang! Bang! Bang! MrWowWow Aug 9 #1

Sickening Klaus Hergersheimer Aug 10 #2

The police are the cause ultimately IbogaProject Aug 10 #6

corrupt police working with criminals maxsolomon Aug 11 #8

There is a whole system funnling small arms into these areas IbogaProject Aug 11 #9

Therefore, it's corrupt police. maxsolomon Aug 11 #10

What about the mental anguish? Marthe48 Aug 10 #3

a sudden spike in mass shootings RussBLib Aug 10 #4

Why is ABC putting quotes around "Mass shooting?" malthaussen Aug 10 #5

3 or more shot is a mass shooting maxsolomon Aug 11 #7

Maybe her physical injury isn't very serious but StarryNite Aug 11 #11

MrWowWow

(915 posts)

1. Bang! Bang! Bang!

Reply to Ocelot II (Original post)

Sat Aug 9, 2025, 11:48 PM

Aug 9

Klaus Hergersheimer

(39 posts)

2. Sickening

Reply to Ocelot II (Original post)

Sun Aug 10, 2025, 09:50 AM

Aug 10

The impoverished neighborhood was holding a block party for the enjoyment of the residents. That sort of thing is not uncommon in the city. Why some thugs decided to start shooting is incomprehensible. A few years ago at another block party even more people were shot. What an embarrassment for a city that does not need more scorn. Poverty and guns are a bad combination.

IbogaProject

(4,848 posts)

6. The police are the cause ultimately

Reply to Klaus Hergersheimer (Reply #2)

Sun Aug 10, 2025, 01:24 PM

Aug 10

Currupt cops work with criminals and use them as pawns. Camden fired their entire police force and only rehired select officers they trusted. The results have been wildly successful.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/25/camden-newark-new-jersey-police-reform

On October 29, 2012, the FBI announced Camden was ranked first in violent crime per capita of cities with over 50,000 residents, surpassing Flint, Michigan.[34] That year, there were 67 homicides in Camden.

By 2019, homicides had declined to 25, a 63% decrease. This coincided with wide-ranging reforms by the new police department.[10]

By 2022, overall crime rates had declined even further still, although the murder rate had increased slightly, to its 2016 levels, after falling in both 2020 and 2021, as the city (and country more generally) reopened following the height of both the COVID-19 pandemic, and persistent tensions surrounding the 2020 presidential election; the overall count of non-violent crimes committed within city limits also returned to its 2019 levels by the end of 2022, somewhat offsetting the continued drop in violent crime in the city generally under its new police force that kept overall crime rates near 50-year lows.[35][36][37]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camden_County_Police_Department

maxsolomon

(37,204 posts)

8. corrupt police working with criminals

Reply to IbogaProject (Reply #6)

Mon Aug 11, 2025, 03:05 PM

Aug 11

caused a young male (probably) to pull out a gun an begin firing indiscriminately into a crowd?

Police have not released any details about the suspect in the shooting.

"We have little information at this point. All we know is there's multiple rounds fired, multiple victims," Worley said Saturday.

A motive for the shooting remains under investigation, according to Worley, who said it appeared the people had gathered outside and were eating crabs "and it looks like somebody just opened fire."

call me skeptical.

IbogaProject

(4,848 posts)

9. There is a whole system funnling small arms into these areas

Reply to maxsolomon (Reply #8)

Mon Aug 11, 2025, 05:38 PM

Aug 11

Camden, NJ had frequent shootings like this. They disbanded their force, set up a new county force and selectively hired the cops they felt they could trust. Their murder rate plumeted. These communities aren't making nor selling these guns, but those arms are selectively being trafficked there.