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Friday, August 3, 2012

NAACP: Shomrim Facebook Posts 'Disgusting,' 'Prejudiced'

The president of the NAACP's Baltimore chapter told Patch that the Jewish neighborhood watch group should use better judgment.

The president of NAACP's Baltimore chapter on Friday called Shomrim of Baltimore's Facebook page "disgusting" and said its depiction of black people displays a "prejudice" that she believes was also seen during a criminal trial this summer involving a member of the Jewish neighborhood watch group. However, a Shomrim leader said that the group's Facebook postings are only meant to help police solve crimes. On Tuesday Shomrim published a photo of a young, black male riding a bicycle in Upper Park Heights while towing another, riderless bike beside him. It was posted without an explanation as to why it was posted between Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. Some of Shomrim's Facebook readers' comments joked or implied that the male had stolen the …

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Thursday, August 2, 2012

Jewish Group's Facebook Photo of a Black Man Spurs Criticism

Photo of an African American male riding a bike, with another in tow, was posted on the site of the Shomrim of Baltimore's Facebook page. Most commentors were critical of the group's posting of the photo for implying he is stealing the bike.

The Jewish neighborhood watch group at the center of an incident that had inflamed black-Jewish tensions in Northwest Baltimore posted a photo of an African American man this week on its Facebook page that led many commenters to criticize the picture's implication of wrongdoing. The photo, posted on Shomrim of Baltimore's publicly-accessible Facebook page, is simple enough: it shows a young, black male riding a bicycle and towing along another, riderless bike. The photo—posted without a caption, credit or explanation (see clarification below)—drew nearly 20 comments, some of which implied the unidentified black youth was a thief. The photo, like most on the page, was posted by someone with administrative privileges to the site—and not by a…

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