Al Sharpton’s Baltimore
“No justice, no peace” finally blew into an urban riot.
The streets of Baltimore on April 28. PHOTO: MATT ROURKE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
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‘No justice, no peace.”
In Baltimore now, they’ve got both.
When Al Sharpton popularized the chant, “No justice, no peace,” it was unmistakably clear that “no peace” was an implicit threat of civil unrest.
Not civil disobedience, as practiced by Martin Luther King Jr. Civil unrest.
Civil unrest can come in degrees. It might be a brief fight between protesters and the cops. It might be someone throwing rocks through store windows. Or it might be more than that.