Bernie Sanders Blasted Elijah Cummings’ District as a ‘Third World Country’.

“Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you’re in a wealthy nation. You would think that you were in a Third World country,” Sanders said during a tour of the city in the aftermath of riots over the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray, an African-American man who died after falling into a coma while in police custody.

The Baltimore Sun reported Sanders toured the neighborhood where Gray was arrested “hoping to reach out to African-American voters in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.” The neighborhood falls inside Cummings’ ineptly led Congressional district. Cummings was first elected to public office in 1986, 33 years ago.

Baltimore homicides exceeded 300 each year from 2015 through 2018, and 2019 is on track to cross the 300 threshold for the fifth year in a row.

A 2016 report from the Baltimore Sun showed 344 homicides for the year 2015. A homicides counter maintained by the Sun shows 318 for 2016, 342 for 2017, and 309 for 2018.

USA Today reported the 342 Baltimore homicides in 2017 represented a “homicide rate of 56 per 100,000 people.” The homicide rate in Chicago was less than half of that, at “24 per 100,000.” Why??

Why is Elijah Cummings attacking the president instead of focusing on the murders in Baltimore?

Why is Baltimore mayor Young attacking the president instead of focusing on the murders in Baltimore?

The inept leadership of Baltimore needs to be addressed instead of distracting people by attacking the president of The United States.

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