Councilman Brandon Scott left) and Sen. Bill Ferguson wait outside in the rain. Photo via Sen. Bill Ferguson/Twitter.
Gov. Larry Hogan called a meeting in the city today about what can be done to address Baltimore’s ballooning violent crime problem. Unfortunately, he appears to have excluded two prominent local elected officials, both of whom have major stakes in addressing the issue.
Councilman Brandon Scott, chair of the council’s public safety committee, and Sen. Bill Ferguson, who represents Baltimore’s 46th legislative district, showed up at the William Donald Schaefer Building this morning to sit in on the gathering of public safety officials. However, when they walked in, they were “kicked out of the building,” Ferguson wrote in a Facebook post. “’We’re not on the list’ apparently. For a public meeting. About crime in our City.”
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