Author Archives: Sean Yoes

The Baltimore branch of the NAACP has a storied history, and its future trajectory could be changed radically with the organization’s upcoming election in November (the exact date has not been announced as of September 6), when Cortly “C.D.” Witherspoon, challenges Tessa Hill-Aston for the presidency of the organization. Sean Yoes Witherspoon, 35, a community […]

Sean Yoes I remember when I first saw the video of Baltimore City Police officer Vincent Cosom beating the hell out of Colin Truss at a bus stop on the corner of Greenmount and North, while two of his buddies (who also happened to be police officers) held Truss’ arms and roughed up his girlfriend […]

A couple of weeks ago Baltimore City Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said on my radio show “First Edition,” a little more than a year after the uprising and the (premature) conclusion of the trials of six police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, morale within the rank and file of the police department […]

We don’t really know what happened in the final fateful moments before the killing of 23-year-old Korryn Gaines, a young mother of two, who was gunned down by police in front of her five-year old son, Kodi, in her Randallstown apartment in Baltimore County on August 1. All we really know is what Baltimore County […]

Many communities of color and poor communities across the nation have been under siege in their own neighborhoods and homes for generations because of seemingly ubiquitous crime. And many have also felt besieged by brutality and misconduct at the hands of some of the law enforcement officers sworn to protect and serve them. Sean Yoes […]

Sean Yoes Earlier this week, seven women known as, “Mothers of the Movement,” took front and center at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. They are the mothers of the “martyrs” who inspired the Black Lives Matter movement. Gwen Carr is the mother of Eric Garner, who, while unarmed, was choked to death by an […]

Sean Yoes Earlier this week, Lt. Brian Rice became the fourth police officer to escape a guilty verdict in the trials of the six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray. By the evening of day one of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, speakers were acknowledging Rice’s acquittal on all charges. During his […]

Sean Yoes Since five Dallas police officers were gunned down last week by a lone (allegedly) sniper, who allegedly claimed (before he was blown to bits by an explosives toting robot implemented by Dallas police) he wanted to kill cops, especially White cops, life seems to have gotten harder for the Black Lives Matter Movement. […]

Sean Yoes The trial of Baltimore City police Lt. Brian Rice, the fourth trial (another bench trial) of the six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray began earlier this week. So far, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby is winless — there has been a mistrial and two acquittals — in her search […]

Sean Yoes A vigil for 23-year old Tyriece Watson, the Baltimore rapper known as, “Lor Scoota,” on June 27 ended with a smoldering standoff between those mourning the young burgeoning hip hop artist and Baltimore City police, at Penn and North, one of the flashpoints of last April’s uprising. Some hurled bricks and bottles at […]