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Body camera video shows incident at the heart of a viral tweet by a Texas cardiologist who claimed his daughter was attacked by "BLM" in Baltimore, shared 50k times but later debunked by Baltimore Twitter. Story tk
New: In body camera video, couple tells police they declined a squeegee car wash and man jumped out of car; he told youths he had a knife, said they then pulled knife on him. https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-natale-viral-tweet-blm-20200916-o5uooavvu5glxaklpw3pzwpzbm-story.html
The cardiologist father, who falsely claimed police said they wouldn't investigate because the suspects were Black, has deleted his Twitter account and kind-of apologized, saying his words were "misinterpreted" https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-natale-viral-tweet-blm-20200916-o5uooavvu5glxaklpw3pzwpzbm-story.html
The responding officer does say: “To be honest, the city doesn’t want us to engage with squeegee boys. It’s illegal to be in the street, but the city doesn’t want us to ... ” he says before trailing off. "It's crazy. It's sad."
Such crowd-sourced fact-checking won't be possible if BPD goes through with plans to encrypt the scanner and grant access to certain established media with limitations https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-natale-viral-tweet-blm-20200916-o5uooavvu5glxaklpw3pzwpzbm-story.html
