22AcaciaAve
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Twitter user @CaponeOFFICIAL retweeted a @BenJealous tweet that linked to an article about corrupt Baltimore police. The Jealous campaign’s tweet states, “Among the many reasons to end the failed war on the drugs is the way it has corrupted too many police officers.” The attached article from The Root included the mug shots of seven convicted Baltimore police officers. @CaponeOFFICIAL, which has 22,600 followers, added vulgar commentary when retweeting the Jealous post.
“Yet people still believe cops are saints, and Freddie Gray killed himself,” the tweet states. “F--- #BlueLivesMatter and all these dirty [expletive] cops. You aren't a cop if you're dirty...you're a target to the criminal world. If you get killed...that’s on you.” The tweet was liked by @BenJealous. The Jealous campaign removed the “like” of the @CaponeOFFICIAL tweet Tuesday and said Thursday that Jealous had no knowledge of it.
Gene Ryan, president of Baltimore’s FOP Lodge 3, called it “outrageous.” “It’s disgraceful,” Ryan said. “Police officers put their lives on the line every day. He likes a post that likes the idea of police officers being killed? It’s insulting.”
Todd Eberly, a political science professor at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, said Jealous needs to be running a more disciplined campaign against a Republican incumbent who leads Jealous in most polls. “He has to run a near flawless campaign to close that gap,” Eberly said. “On a day like this you don’t want anyone writing about this. You want them writing about the Miller and Busch endorsement. “When you’re trampling on you’re own story, you need to make a course correction,” he added.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/ma...-ben-jealous-police-tweet-20180823-story.html
Is Jealous seriously the best democrats could do? Double digits down and you have to defend this. As noted, he needs a near perfect campaign to even get close. And the best part is the tweet occurred back in early February. It took until late August for someone to figure out that liking it needed to be taken down? I thought Anthony Brown ran a bad campaign against a relative unknown republican in Larry Hogan. Jealous looks like he will at least take Brown and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend off the hook for the worst candidates run in a state that is 2-1 democrat.