[Kzyxtalk] "Baltimore: Policing and the Pathology of Murder" -- on KMEC Radio, Monday, April 27 at 1 p.m.

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John and Sid return to KMEC Radio, your community radio station, on Monday, April 27, at 1 p.m., Pacific Time, with another show about law enforcement and racism. We're calling the show, "Baltimore: Policing and the Pathology of Murder". 




Our guests are U.S. Chief Deputy Marshall, Matthew Fogg (retired) and U.S. Deputy Marshall Stephen Zanowic (retired). 




Fogg, who is black, and Zanowic, who is white, were respectively derided as the "black rat" and the "white rat" by some in law enforcement while courageously serving as whistleblowers about racism in the U.S. Department of Justice. Their efforts lead to a landmark court case. 







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BACKGROUND 




After a weekend of unrest in Baltimore, CNN is reporting plans for more protests. 




Protesters decrying Freddie Gray's death plan more rallies in Baltimore this week. Anger and outrage are mounting over a predominately white police union's ill-advised comparison of the predominantly black protests to a "lynch mob". 




Gray died last Sunday. Protesters have every marched since that time, outraged by the arrest, which was recorded on a bystander's cell phone and the nature of Gray's death. The witness said Gray was yelling and indicated he was having difficulty breathing. 




At some point after he was detained, he suffered a severe spinal cord injury. His family said his voice box was crushed and his neck snapped in three places before he slipped into a coma and died. 




On Friday, police officials said that Gray should have received medical care at the site of his arrest and at other times as he was transported to a police station. The van carrying him stopped three times on its way to the station where he was to be booked, but when it arrived at the Western District officers called for an ambulance, which took him to a hospital. 




Police say five of the six officers involved in the arrest have provided statements to investigators. The sixth officer has invoked his right to refuse to answer questions. 




How Gray was killed remains unknown. It's even more difficult to understand why Baltimore City police officers arrested Gray in the first place. 




Authorities can't say if there was a particularly good reason why police arrested Gray. According to the city, an officer made eye contact with Gray, and he took off running, so they pursued him. Though he'd had scrapes with the law before, there's no indication he was wanted at the time. And though he was found with a switchblade, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said, “We know that having a knife is not necessarily a crime.” 




The police say Gray didn't resist arrest. 





MATTHEW FOGG 




See link to Fogg's homepage: http://www.bwbadge.com/fogg.htm 




In 1998, retired Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Matthew Fogg won a landmark EEO and Title VII racial discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against the Justice Department, for which he was awarded $4 million. The jury found the entire Marshals Service to be a "racially hostile environment" which discriminates against blacks in its promotion practices. U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson summarized the jurors' decision by stating that they felt there was an "atmosphere of racial disharmony and mistrust within the United States Marshal Service". 




As of 2011, Fogg is president of "Bigots with Badges", and executive director of CARCLE (Congress Against Racism and Corruption in Law Enforcement), and is also associated with Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a drug law reform organization of law enforcement officers. 





STEPHEN ZANOWIC 




NY Times article about Zanowic: http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/05/nyregion/whistle-blowing-marshal-tells-of-long-harassment.html 




Link to Zanowic's bio: http://www.bwbadge.com/steve.htm 

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