Baltimore Private Schools Embroiled in Controversy from Racially Charged Social Media Photos

10/31/17

By Ethan McLeod, Baltimore Fishbowl

Some of Baltimore’s private schools are in the worst kind of spotlight this week, thanks to some deplorable Halloween antics from a group of students and an alum.

The photos began circulating Sunday evening. One picture depicts a male, an alumnus of the Boys’ Latin School of Maryland now enrolled at the College of Charleston, in an orange jumpsuit with “Freddie Gray” written across his back. The caption reads, “ur going to jail tonight.” The picture was taken at a party near the college’s campus.

The other picture shows two teens, one boy and one girl, wearing orange jumpsuits and making supposed gang signs, with an overlaid caption that reads, “N***s broke out,” referencing Ice T’s 2012 song, “Chrome plated 357.” The boy and the girl the picture attend the all-boys Gilman School and the all-girls Roland Park Country School, respectively, school administrators confirmed in letters to the school community. The caption was not written nor the photo posted by the students in the picture but by a third student who attends another local independent school.

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