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Baltimore deserves a future where Black communities are safe, supported, and free.
Organizing Black has spent the last 10 years building community power — from defending our neighborhoods during National Guard occupation, to demanding that
Baltimore’s wealthiest institutions pay their fair share, to fighting for real mental-health crisis care instead of deadly policing.
We know the challenges ahead are hard. But we also know that no matter the problem, community is always the solution. ✊🏾
As we close out 2025,
📍Maryland. Two cases. Two responses.
Harford County: Man fires 200 rounds at police. Officers never return fire.
West Baltimore: Elderly woman in mental health crisis, with a knife. Fatally shot.
How a situation is framed, engaged, and responded to often shapes how it ends.
A week after BPD killed BJ, officers have killed a 70 year-old woman. Over and over again, police departments demonstrate that policing is fundamentally anti-human life and dignity.
https://t.co/GVSGV2PSiA
Videos released by BPD show officer chasing Bilal Abdullah after receiving report he was armed and had threatened people. Video shows officer’s gun holstered as he engages Abdullah, and shot can be heard. Next glimpse shows Abdullah on ground holding a weapon, pointing it
BJ was the best of us. "I’ll always remember him as carrying on in the footsteps of his father. My uncle was an Arabber first..and so it was a blessing to watch my cousin keep a long Baltimore tradition alive," said Michaela Brown, our executive director and BJ's cousin.
“I’ll always remember him as carrying on in the footsteps of his father," says Michaela Dutchess Brown, Abdullah’s cousin. "My uncle was an arabber first. And so it was a blessing to watch my cousin keep a long Baltimore tradition alive." https://t.co/MpnTs0OXLA
🚨TONIGHT 6pm at Penn North🚨 -- March for BJ Abdullah who was killed by Baltimore police.
BJ was a beloved Arabber, community member and son. His life matters.
On 5/21, we're welcoming @kamaufranklin, Mariah Parker, & @micahinATL, editors of the new No Cop City, No Cop World collection, for a talk about the fight for a world without police, in conversation with Sam Master of @OrganizingBlack and Erica Caines of @blacks4peace.
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