saco-indonesia.com, Warga Desa Ranca Iyuh, Kecamatan Panongan, Kabupaten Tangerang telah terkejut dengan temuan tas ransel yang

saco-indonesia.com, Warga Desa Ranca Iyuh, Kecamatan Panongan, Kabupaten Tangerang telah terkejut dengan temuan tas ransel yang berisi bahan peledak di sebuah warteg. Tempat itu juga tak jauh dari lokasi perampokan bank BRI.

Kemudian tas tersebut telah dilaporkan ke polisi. Sehari sebelumnya, telah terjadi peristiwa perampokan BRI yang menguras Rp 570 juta.

Tas berwarna hitam itu diduga telah tertinggal pelaku perampokan BRI seusai bersantap di Warteg itu. "Saya telah menemukan tas itu pada Selasa (24/12). Saya awalnya berpikir itu tas orang yang ketinggalan saat makan pada Selasa petang. Mereka makan enam orang di sini," ujar Saefuri.

Karena tak menaruh curiga, Saefuri juga mengaku tas tersebut kemudian dia amankan dan disimpan di meja warteg. Tetapi karena sampai siang pemiliknya tidak juga datang untuk mengambil tas, ia pun curiga.

"Curigalah saya, kemudian saya laporkan ke Polsek Panongan pada siang harinya," ujarnya.

Sekitar pukul 14.00 WIB, tim dari Polresta Tangerang langsung menuju ke lokasi dan membuka isi tas misterius yang berada di warteg tersebut. Saat juga melihat, petugas Polresta langsung menduga tas isi berisi bahan peledak.

Kapolresta Tangerang Kombes Pol Irfing Jaya juga mengatakan, ada rangkaian kabel di tas tersebut. "Ada rangkaian kabel dan baterai yang menyerupai peledak," ujarnya.

Untuk dapat memastikan itu, Kapolres lalu meminta bantuan Tagana Polda Metro Jaya yang tiba di lokasi pukul 18.00 WIB tadi. Sekitar pukul 18.49 WIB tas tersebut dibuka. Setelah itu tas yang berisi bom dibawa ke lokasi persawahan untuk kemudian diledakkan.

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saco-indonesia.com, Seorang balita tewas tertembak senapan angin di bagian belakang kepalanya. Korban meninggal dunia saat menja

saco-indonesia.com, Seorang balita tewas tertembak senapan angin di bagian belakang kepalanya. Korban meninggal dunia saat menjalani perwatan di rumah sakit Dr. Haryoto.

Pelaku yang tak lain adalah paman korban, Nawawi, telah diamankan ke mapolsek Sukodono beserta barang bukti senapan angin. Korban yang diduga telah terkena tembakan pamannya yang sedang latihan di belakang rumahnya.

Informasi yang telah berhasil dihimpun, Korban Daniah yang berusia 5 tahun putri pasangan Wawan dan Fitriah, warga desa karangsari Kecamatan Sukodono telah dilarikan kerumah sakit akibat tertembak senapan angin/ di bagian belakang kepalanya.

Kejadian ini, bermula saat pamannya, Nawawi, sedang berlatih menembak  di belakang halaman rumahnya. Tak disangka korban yang melintas dan tertembak di bagian kepala belakangnya.

Korban akhinya tewas setelah menjalani perwatan intesif dirumah sakit pemerintah. Diduga korban meninggal ada pendaharan dibagian otaknya. “Latihan tidak melihat sekelilingnya,” terang Faisol, kerabat korban.

Setelah melakukan pemeriksaan intensif, polisi akhirnya telah menetapkan Nawawi sebagai tersangka dan langsung dijebloskan ke tahanan Mapolsek Sukodono.
“Setelah cukup bukti,petugas langsung menetapkan (Nawawi-red)sebagai tersangka dan langsung ditahan,” Ujar

Kapolsek Sukodono, AKP Sudartono seraya juga mengatakan lokasi terjadi penembakan, dibelakang rumah yang telah dijadikan tempat latihan menembak.
Ditambahkanya, dari pemeriksaan penembakan dikarenakan ketidak sengajaan.

Namun pelaku juga tidak memperhatikan keamanan latihan menembak. “Kami telah mengancam tersangka dengan Undang-undang perlindungan anak, karena lalai bermain senapan angin hingga memakan korban jiwa,”terang Sudartono

Sementara itu, pihak keluarga korban telah menyerahkan kasus ini kepolisi. Bahkan korban juga berharap pelaku dihukum dengan seberat beratnya.

“Karena tersangka bermain tembak-tembakan di gang rumah yang padat penduduk,” ujar Thoriq, keluarga korban.

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Museum fatahillah merupakan salah satu objek wisata bersejarah yang berada di kota DKI Jakarta yang dapat anda kunjungi bersama

Museum fatahillah merupakan salah satu objek wisata bersejarah yang berada di kota DKI Jakarta yang dapat anda kunjungi bersama keluarga ataupun teman – teman anda. Museum yang terdapat di Jakarta Barat ini tepatnya di Jalan Taman Fatahillah No 2, juga di kenal dengan nama lainnya sebagai Museum Batavia ataupun Museum Sejarah Jakarta oleh masyarakat sekitar.

Objek wisata museum fatahillah telah mempunyai luas sekitar 1300 meter persegi yang telah dibangun sekitar tahun 1707 hingga 1710. Sejarah Museum Fathillah ini di bangun sebagai pusat Balai Kota Stadhius oleh seorang Gubernur yang bernama Jendral Johan Van Hoorn. Namun setelah Indonesia mencanangkan dirinya telah merdeka, hingga pada tanggal 30 maret 1974 gedung tersebut telah di ambil alih secara penuh dan di fungsikan sebagai bangunan Museum Fatahillah oleh presiden Soekarno.

Arsitektur Bangunan Dan Koleksi Peninggalan Sejarah Museum Fatahillah

Jika anda memperhatikan dengan seksama, Bangunan Museum Fatahillah hampir sama dengan sebuah Istana Dam yang terdapat di Amsterdam Belanda. Di mana bangunan tersebut telah mempunyai arsitektur dengan dua sayap pada bagian barat dan timur dengan berbagai macam fungsi sebagai tempat kerja, tempat pengadilan dan beberapa ruangan penjara bawah tanah.

Museum Fatahillah telah memberikan berbagai macam peninggalan – peninggalan bersejarah mulai dari cerita perjalanan kota Jakarta, beberapa replika peninggalan kerajaan pajajaran dan tarumanegara, benda – benda arkeologi yang pernah di temukan di Jakarta, dan masih banyak lagi yang lainnya. Semua situs yang di temukan telah di simpan di sekitar 5 ruangan berbeda; Ruang MH Thamrin, Jayakarta, Sultan Agung, Tarumanegara dan Fatahillah.

Selain berbagai macam peninggalan bersejarah yang dapat anda temukan di Museum Fatahillah, anda juga dapat melihat berbagai benda – benda kebudayaan betawi, kendaraan becak dan sekarang ini ada sebuah patung Dewa Hermes yang merupakan seorang dewa perlindungan dan keberuntungan.

Anda juga akan menemukan berbagai macam fasilitas – fasilitas umum yang mempermudah untuk dapat melakukan berbagai aktivitas dengan aman dan nyaman, seperti tempat perpustakaan, kantin, toko perbelanjaan, sinema fatahillah, musholla (tempat ibadah umat islam), ruang pameran dan pertemuan, dan sebuah taman yang di tumbuhi berbagai macam tanaman hias dengan luas sekitar 1000 meter persegi. Taman tersebut juga sering digunakan untuk berbagai keperluan mulai dari pentas seni, gathering ataupun resepsi pernikahan.

Secara garis besar, objek wisata museum fatahillah juga merupakan salah satu wisata bersejarah yang patut anda kunjungi untuk lebih mengenal lebih jauh tentang sejarah yang ada di Indonesia, khususnya untuk kota Jakarta Sendiri. Museum ini di buka setiap hari mulai pukul 8 pagi hingga pukul 2 siang pada hari senin, hari jum-at hingga pukul 11:30 dan untuk hari sabtu hingga pukul 1 siang.

Demikian uraian singkat mengenai museum fathillah jakarta, semoga dengan kita selalu mengunjungi tempat seperti ini, akan dapat menambah wawasan kita mengenai sejarah dari Negara Indonesia yang kita cinta ini. Nah untuk kamu yang ingin menambah wawasan mengenai budaya Indonesia dan Sejarah Indonesia, anda juga dapat berkunjung ke Museum Wayang Jakarta dan Museum Satria Mandala yang lokasinya masih di Jakarta Juga.

Cinta bukanlah pilihan tapi sebuah keadaan yang memang terjadi. Ini adalah sebuah insting.

Cinta bukanlah pilihan tapi sebuah keadaan yang memang terjadi. Ini adalah sebuah insting.

saco-indonesia.com, Pelaku pembunuhan terhadap Desi Hayatun Nupus yang berusia (21) tahun yang juga sedang hamil delapan bulan d

saco-indonesia.com, Pelaku pembunuhan terhadap Desi Hayatun Nupus yang berusia (21) tahun yang juga sedang hamil delapan bulan dan penganiaya ibunya, Fatoyah yang berusia (45) tahun diduga telah dilakukan oleh orang dekat korban. Pasalnya, warga juga sempat melakukan pengejaran terhadap terduga pelaku.

"Seperti orang ketakutan kemudian dia berlari," kata saksi Kasdi di lokasi, Minggu (26/01) kemarin malam.

Kasdi telah meyakini bahwa yang ia lihat itu merupakan E, yang tak lain juga merupakan suami dari Desi. E berlari kemudian naik mobil minibus. Tak hanya E saja , Kasdi juga melihat dua orang lain yang bersamaan dengan menggunakan dua sepeda motor. Meski demikian, warga sekitar juga enggan berspekulasi.

"Saya juga sempat mengejar, tapi tidak sampai dapat. Karena mereka bawa mobil dan sepeda motor, sedangkan saya hanya berlari," ujarnya.

Seperti yang telah diberitakan sebelumnya, Desi dan Ibunya telah ditemukan bersimbah darah di rumahnya Kampung Rawabebek RT 10 RW 11, Kelurahan Kota Baru, Kecamatan Bekasi Barat, Kota Bekasi, Minggu (26/01) malam.

Desi tewas mengenaskan dengan luka parah akibat senjata tajam di leher, mulut, telinga. Sedangkan, ibunya kritis karena luka tikam di bagian pinggang. Rumah korban pun juga dipenuhi bercak darah korban. Hingga berita ditulis belum ada keterangan resmi dari polisi.

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WASHINGTON — The former deputy director of the C.I.A. asserts in a forthcoming book that Republicans, in their eagerness to politicize the killing of the American ambassador to Libya, repeatedly distorted the agency’s analysis of events. But he also argues that the C.I.A. should get out of the business of providing “talking points” for administration officials in national security events that quickly become partisan, as happened after the Benghazi attack in 2012.

The official, Michael J. Morell, dismisses the allegation that the United States military and C.I.A. officers “were ordered to stand down and not come to the rescue of their comrades,” and he says there is “no evidence” to support the charge that “there was a conspiracy between C.I.A. and the White House to spin the Benghazi story in a way that would protect the political interests of the president and Secretary Clinton,” referring to the secretary of state at the time, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

But he also concludes that the White House itself embellished some of the talking points provided by the Central Intelligence Agency and had blocked him from sending an internal study of agency conclusions to Congress.

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“I finally did so without asking,” just before leaving government, he writes, and after the White House released internal emails to a committee investigating the State Department’s handling of the issue.

A lengthy congressional investigation remains underway, one that many Republicans hope to use against Mrs. Clinton in the 2016 election cycle.

In parts of the book, “The Great War of Our Time” (Twelve), Mr. Morell praises his C.I.A. colleagues for many successes in stopping terrorist attacks, but he is surprisingly critical of other C.I.A. failings — and those of the National Security Agency.

Soon after Mr. Morell retired in 2013 after 33 years in the agency, President Obama appointed him to a commission reviewing the actions of the National Security Agency after the disclosures of Edward J. Snowden, a former intelligence contractor who released classified documents about the government’s eavesdropping abilities. Mr. Morell writes that he was surprised by what he found.

“You would have thought that of all the government entities on the planet, the one least vulnerable to such grand theft would have been the N.S.A.,” he writes. “But it turned out that the N.S.A. had left itself vulnerable.”

He concludes that most Wall Street firms had better cybersecurity than the N.S.A. had when Mr. Snowden swept information from its systems in 2013. While he said he found himself “chagrined by how well the N.S.A. was doing” compared with the C.I.A. in stepping up its collection of data on intelligence targets, he also sensed that the N.S.A., which specializes in electronic spying, was operating without considering the implications of its methods.

“The N.S.A. had largely been collecting information because it could, not necessarily in all cases because it should,” he says.

The book is to be released next week.

Mr. Morell was a career analyst who rose through the ranks of the agency, and he ended up in the No. 2 post. He served as President George W. Bush’s personal intelligence briefer in the first months of his presidency — in those days, he could often be spotted at the Starbucks in Waco, Tex., catching up on his reading — and was with him in the schoolhouse in Florida on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when the Bush presidency changed in an instant.

Mr. Morell twice took over as acting C.I.A. director, first when Leon E. Panetta was appointed secretary of defense and then when retired Gen. David H. Petraeus resigned over an extramarital affair with his biographer, a relationship that included his handing her classified notes of his time as America’s best-known military commander.

Mr. Morell says he first learned of the affair from Mr. Petraeus only the night before he resigned, and just as the Benghazi events were turning into a political firestorm. While praising Mr. Petraeus, who had told his deputy “I am very lucky” to run the C.I.A., Mr. Morell writes that “the organization did not feel the same way about him.” The former general “created the impression through the tone of his voice and his body language that he did not want people to disagree with him (which was not true in my own interaction with him),” he says.

But it is his account of the Benghazi attacks — and how the C.I.A. was drawn into the debate over whether the Obama White House deliberately distorted its account of the death of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens — that is bound to attract attention, at least partly because of its relevance to the coming presidential election. The initial assessments that the C.I.A. gave to the White House said demonstrations had preceded the attack. By the time analysts reversed their opinion, Susan E. Rice, now the national security adviser, had made a series of statements on Sunday talk shows describing the initial assessment. The controversy and other comments Ms. Rice made derailed Mr. Obama’s plan to appoint her as secretary of state.

The experience prompted Mr. Morell to write that the C.I.A. should stay out of the business of preparing talking points — especially on issues that are being seized upon for “political purposes.” He is critical of the State Department for not beefing up security in Libya for its diplomats, as the C.I.A., he said, did for its employees.

But he concludes that the assault in which the ambassador was killed took place “with little or no advance planning” and “was not well organized.” He says the attackers “did not appear to be looking for Americans to harm. They appeared intent on looting and conducting some vandalism,” setting fires that killed Mr. Stevens and a security official, Sean Smith.

Mr. Morell paints a picture of an agency that was struggling, largely unsuccessfully, to understand dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa when the Arab Spring broke out in late 2011 in Tunisia. The agency’s analysts failed to see the forces of revolution coming — and then failed again, he writes, when they told Mr. Obama that the uprisings would undercut Al Qaeda by showing there was a democratic pathway to change.

“There is no good explanation for our not being able to see the pressures growing to dangerous levels across the region,” he writes. The agency had again relied too heavily “on a handful of strong leaders in the countries of concern to help us understand what was going on in the Arab street,” he says, and those leaders themselves were clueless.

Moreover, an agency that has always overvalued secretly gathered intelligence and undervalued “open source” material “was not doing enough to mine the wealth of information available through social media,” he writes. “We thought and told policy makers that this outburst of popular revolt would damage Al Qaeda by undermining the group’s narrative,” he writes.

Instead, weak governments in Egypt, and the absence of governance from Libya to Yemen, were “a boon to Islamic extremists across both the Middle East and North Africa.”

Mr. Morell is gentle about most of the politicians he dealt with — he expresses admiration for both Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama, though he accuses former Vice President Dick Cheney of deliberately implying a connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq that the C.I.A. had concluded probably did not exist. But when it comes to the events leading up to the Bush administration’s decision to go to war in Iraq, he is critical of his own agency.

Mr. Morell concludes that the Bush White House did not have to twist intelligence on Saddam Hussein’s alleged effort to rekindle the country’s work on weapons of mass destruction.

“The view that hard-liners in the Bush administration forced the intelligence community into its position on W.M.D. is just flat wrong,” he writes. “No one pushed. The analysts were already there and they had been there for years, long before Bush came to office.”

Mr. Bartoszewski was given honorary Israeli citizenship for his work to save Jews during World War II and later surprised even himself by being instrumental in reconciling Poland and Germany.

BALTIMORE — In the afternoons, the streets of Locust Point are clean and nearly silent. In front of the rowhouses, potted plants rest next to steps of brick or concrete. There is a shopping center nearby with restaurants, and a grocery store filled with fresh foods.

And the National Guard and the police are largely absent. So, too, residents say, are worries about what happened a few miles away on April 27 when, in a space of hours, parts of this city became riot zones.

“They’re not our reality,” Ashley Fowler, 30, said on Monday at the restaurant where she works. “They’re not what we’re living right now. We live in, not to be racist, white America.”

As Baltimore considers its way forward after the violent unrest brought by the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died of injuries he suffered while in police custody, residents in its predominantly white neighborhoods acknowledge that they are sometimes struggling to understand what beyond Mr. Gray’s death spurred the turmoil here. For many, the poverty and troubled schools of gritty West Baltimore are distant troubles, glimpsed only when they pass through the area on their way somewhere else.

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And so neighborhoods of Baltimore are facing altogether different reckonings after Mr. Gray’s death. In mostly black communities like Sandtown-Winchester, where some of the most destructive rioting played out last week, residents are hoping businesses will reopen and that the police will change their strategies. But in mostly white areas like Canton and Locust Point, some residents wonder what role, if any, they should play in reimagining stretches of Baltimore where they do not live.

“Most of the people are kind of at a loss as to what they’re supposed to do,” said Dr. Richard Lamb, a dentist who has practiced in the same Locust Point office for nearly 39 years. “I listen to the news reports. I listen to the clergymen. I listen to the facts of the rampant unemployment and the lack of opportunities in the area. Listen, I pay my taxes. Exactly what can I do?”

And in Canton, where the restaurants have clever names like Nacho Mama’s and Holy Crepe Bakery and Café, Sara Bahr said solutions seemed out of reach for a proudly liberal city.

“I can only imagine how frustrated they must be,” said Ms. Bahr, 36, a nurse who was out with her 3-year-old daughter, Sally. “I just wish I knew how to solve poverty. I don’t know what to do to make it better.”

The day of unrest and the overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations that followed led to hundreds of arrests, often for violations of the curfew imposed on the city for five consecutive nights while National Guard soldiers patrolled the streets. Although there were isolated instances of trouble in Canton, the neighborhood association said on its website, many parts of southeast Baltimore were physically untouched by the tumult.

Tensions in the city bubbled anew on Monday after reports that the police had wounded a black man in Northwest Baltimore. The authorities denied those reports and sent officers to talk with the crowds that gathered while other officers clutching shields blocked traffic at Pennsylvania and West North Avenues.

Lt. Col. Melvin Russell, a community police officer, said officers had stopped a man suspected of carrying a handgun and that “one of those rounds was spent.”

Colonel Russell said officers had not opened fire, “so we couldn’t have shot him.”

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The colonel said the man had not been injured but was taken to a hospital as a precaution. Nearby, many people stood in disbelief, despite the efforts by the authorities to quash reports they described as “unfounded.”

Monday’s episode was a brief moment in a larger drama that has yielded anger and confusion. Although many people said they were familiar with accounts of the police harassing or intimidating residents, many in Canton and Locust Point said they had never experienced it themselves. When they watched the unrest, which many protesters said was fueled by feelings that they lived only on Baltimore’s margins, even those like Ms. Bahr who were pained by what they saw said they could scarcely comprehend the emotions associated with it.

But others, like Lambi Vasilakopoulos, who runs a casual restaurant in Canton, said they were incensed by what unfolded last week.

“What happened wasn’t called for. Protests are one thing; looting is another thing,” he said, adding, “We’re very frustrated because we’re the ones who are going to pay for this.”

There were pockets of optimism, though, that Baltimore would enter a period of reconciliation.

“I’m just hoping for peace,” Natalie Boies, 53, said in front of the Locust Point home where she has lived for 50 years. “Learn to love each other; be patient with each other; find justice; and care.”

A skeptical Mr. Vasilakopoulos predicted tensions would worsen.

“It cannot be fixed,” he said. “It’s going to get worse. Why? Because people don’t obey the laws. They don’t want to obey them.”

But there were few fears that the violence that plagued West Baltimore last week would play out on these relaxed streets. The authorities, Ms. Fowler said, would make sure of that.

“They kept us safe here,” she said. “I didn’t feel uncomfortable when I was in my house three blocks away from here. I knew I was going to be O.K. because I knew they weren’t going to let anyone come and loot our properties or our businesses or burn our cars.”

Mr. Lechleider helped invent DSL technology, which enabled phone companies to offer high-speed web access over their infrastructure of copper wires.

Public perceptions of race relations in America have grown substantially more negative in the aftermath of the death of a young black man who was injured while in police custody in Baltimore and the subsequent unrest, far eclipsing the sentiment recorded in the wake of turmoil in Ferguson, Mo., last summer.

Americans are also increasingly likely to say that the police are more apt to use deadly force against a black person, the latest New York Times/CBS News poll finds.

The poll findings highlight the challenges for local leaders and police officials in trying to maintain order while sustaining faith in the criminal justice system in a racially polarized nation.

Sixty-one percent of Americans now say race relations in this country are generally bad. That figure is up sharply from 44 percent after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown and the unrest that followed in Ferguson in August, and 43 percent in December. In a CBS News poll just two months ago, 38 percent said race relations were generally bad. Current views are by far the worst of Barack Obama’s presidency.

The negative sentiment is echoed by broad majorities of blacks and whites alike, a stark change from earlier this year, when 58 percent of blacks thought race relations were bad, but just 35 percent of whites agreed. In August, 48 percent of blacks and 41 percent of whites said they felt that way.

Looking ahead, 44 percent of Americans think race relations are worsening, up from 36 percent in December. Forty-one percent of blacks and 46 percent of whites think so. Pessimism among whites has increased 10 points since December.

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Do you think race relations in the United States are generally good or generally bad?

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Do you think race relations in the United States are getting better, getting worse or staying about the same?

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The poll finds that profound racial divisions in views of how the police use deadly force remain. Blacks are more than twice as likely to say police in most communities are more apt to use deadly force against a black person — 79 percent of blacks say so compared with 37 percent of whites. A slim majority of whites say race is not a factor in a police officer’s decision to use deadly force.

Overall, 44 percent of Americans say deadly force is more likely to be used against a black person, up from 37 percent in August and 40 percent in December.

Blacks also remain far more likely than whites to say they feel mostly anxious about the police in their community. Forty-two percent say so, while 51 percent feel mostly safe. Among whites, 8 in 10 feel mostly safe.

One proposal to address the matter — having on-duty police officers wear body cameras — receives overwhelming support. More than 9 in 10 whites and blacks alike favor it.

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How would you describe your feelings about the police in your community? Would you say they make you feel mostly safe or mostly anxious?

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In general, do you think the police in most communities are more likely to use deadly force against a black person, or more likely to use it against a white person, or don’t you think race affects police use of deadly force?

Police more likely to use deadly force against a black person

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Do you favor or oppose on-duty police officers wearing video cameras that would record events and actions as they occur?

Favor

Oppose

Don't know/No answer

All adults

Whites

Blacks

92%

93%

93%

6%

5%

5%

2%

2%

2%

 

 

Asked specifically about the situation in Baltimore, most Americans expressed at least some confidence that the investigation by local authorities would be conducted fairly. But while nearly two-thirds of whites think so, fewer than half of blacks agree. Still, more blacks are confident now than were in August regarding the investigation in Ferguson. On Friday, six members of the police force involved in the arrest of Mr. Gray were charged with serious offenses, including manslaughter. The poll was conducted Thursday through Sunday; results from before charges were announced are similar to those from after.

Reaction to the recent turmoil in Baltimore, however, is similar among blacks and whites. Most Americans, 61 percent, say the unrest after Mr. Gray’s death was not justified. That includes 64 percent of whites and 57 percent of blacks.

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As you may know, a Baltimore man, Freddie Gray, recently died after being in the custody of the Baltimore police. How much confidence do you have that the investigation by local authorities into this matter will be conducted fairly?

A lot

Some

Not much

None at all

Don't know/No answer

All adults

Whites

Blacks

29%

31

22

14

5

31

33

20

11

5

20

26

30

22

 

 

In general, do you think the unrest in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray was justified, or do you think the unrest was not justified?

Justified

Not justified

Don't know/No answer

All adults

Whites

Blacks

28%

61

11

26

64

11

37

57

6

 

 

Mr. King sang for the Drifters and found success as a solo performer with hits like “Spanish Harlem.”