Notes: more B'mor...see previous post...there are different kinds of being orphaned, and not enough words to describe them...those five children of the police officer lost their father, that's one sort...just didn't have a word for that category, so used 'orphaned'...I found some more follow up stories, and some stories leading up to it...I could link them...and they are difficult to summarize...to say just a little about them makes the imagination run amok...the seven officers, then eight, then nine, caught up in the racketeering had their capture announced by the attorney general of Maryland, who shortly afterwards became the second in command attorney general of the United States...these officers worked side by side for years beside many other officers, so the investigation has a sprawl...many of their cases now are in doubt...at a gathering in Chicago, the attorney general grandstanded a bit, and made mention of the Baltimore shooting...a few new curios about the shooting have come out, like the officer had his radio in his hand during the whole altercation, and detective story fans antennae go all aquiver at these things...but it's not a fiction story, so speculations are off base..."Omar is my favorite character."--Barak Obama in video discussion with David Simon, producer/writer of HBO series The Wire...this clip is on youtube...one of my pet peeves is that famous authors and such stay away from the comment sections in stories about their works...how to describe this...oh, rock and roll youtubes have long comment lists, but the performers rarely post to them....related, is that professional journalists, writers, and such, rarely jump into comment sections...all the strange mystery science ufo stuff is without any professional commentary or criticism...generally speaking, performers don't deign to discuss things with their fans...well, unless your President...then the likes of Simon is glad to wax philosophical with you...their clip on youtube is a gawdawful back and forth by a politician who knows well the exploits of politicians, and a writer who knows well how to play the Hollywood 'game'...pertinent to such a thought is that a friend and production employee of Simon got arrested for moving a body, a girl brought to a party that overdosed...Simon's friend panicked and moved her into the lobby...Simon has written to the judge asking for leniency...it's no crime to move a body, re deceased detectives on the pool table in The Wire, unless it's part of a crime...which is the issue...a larger issue is to just make drug use legal, so all these questions can fall into a new category, which is the theme of one of the Wire episodes, and sort of the theme of the back and forth between Obama and Simon...some msc. that came up in the B'mor searches: two New York police detective are on trial for hauling a young girl into their van and having non consensual sex...one of the racketeering officers was a suspect in the death of a three year old hit by an errant bullet during a shootout, but now they have a new more certain suspect...there are, on youtube, a category of youtubes about big city neighborhoods...rollabouts visiting notorious neighborhoods...there are neighborhoods in Baltimore burnt to the ground during the Martin Luther King shooting aftermath riots that have never been re built...there's a stupid spooky youtube about Baltimore's Lichen Park, a dumping ground for bodies...that was a scene too in The Wire...it's what the web has become...
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DavidDavid
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