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====Baltimore riot====
====Baltimore riot====
[[File:Pete-Buttigieg-Confronted-Over-Police-Shooting (2).jpg|right|350px|thumb|Mayor [[Pete Buttigieg]] of the systemically racist South Ben police department reads a prepared statement to Black Lives Matter. In what can only be described as a "Sister Souljah moment",<ref>https://politicaldictionary.com/words/sister-souljah-moment/</ref> Buttigieg told the protesters "I'm not asking for your vote."]]
The Ferguson Riots failed to muster African-American voters to the polls in the [[2014 Midterm Elections]] to retake the U.S [[House of Representatives]] or keep the [[U.S. Senate]] from going Republican, as [[Democratic Party|Democrat Party]] strategists (such as [[Donna Brazile]]) had hoped.<ref>http://www.mediaite.com/online/donna-brazile-hypes-midterm-voter-turnout-with-ferguson-hashtag/</ref><ref>https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Politics-Voices/2014/0904/Playing-politics-with-Ferguson-Will-it-work-for-Democrats-in-midterms</ref><ref>http://news.yahoo.com/obama-triangulates-ferguson-crisis-midterm-231620731.html</ref> Yet in many ways the 2015 Baltimore Riots were a spinoff of the anger engendered in Ferguson. ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported Obama met the day after the midterms with Ferguson protest leaders and expressed concern, in the words of [[Al Sharpton]], that the movement and its objectives "stay on course".<ref>http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-met-with-ferguson-activists-concerned-protests-stay-on-course</ref> Social media analysts discovered links between the Baltimore and Ferguson violence; between 20 and 50 social media accounts active in Baltimore were also used in Ferguson at the peak of violence in late Summer 2014, suggesting the presence of professional organizers.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3059840/Anarchists-year-s-violence-Ferguson-active-Baltimore-claim-social-media-experts.html</ref>
The Ferguson Riots failed to muster African-American voters to the polls in the [[2014 Midterm Elections]] to retake the U.S [[House of Representatives]] or keep the [[U.S. Senate]] from going Republican, as [[Democratic Party|Democrat Party]] strategists (such as [[Donna Brazile]]) had hoped.<ref>http://www.mediaite.com/online/donna-brazile-hypes-midterm-voter-turnout-with-ferguson-hashtag/</ref><ref>https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Politics-Voices/2014/0904/Playing-politics-with-Ferguson-Will-it-work-for-Democrats-in-midterms</ref><ref>http://news.yahoo.com/obama-triangulates-ferguson-crisis-midterm-231620731.html</ref> Yet in many ways the 2015 Baltimore Riots were a spinoff of the anger engendered in Ferguson. ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported Obama met the day after the midterms with Ferguson protest leaders and expressed concern, in the words of [[Al Sharpton]], that the movement and its objectives "stay on course".<ref>http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-met-with-ferguson-activists-concerned-protests-stay-on-course</ref> Social media analysts discovered links between the Baltimore and Ferguson violence; between 20 and 50 social media accounts active in Baltimore were also used in Ferguson at the peak of violence in late Summer 2014, suggesting the presence of professional organizers.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3059840/Anarchists-year-s-violence-Ferguson-active-Baltimore-claim-social-media-experts.html</ref>