Better luck next time.
Via Daily Caller:
Baltimore residents’ attempt to have a violence-free weekend were stopped when an off-duty cop was shot Saturday morning.
City activists planned a 72-hour ceasefire weekend, urging the local community to put down the guns in an effort to combat the city’s rising homicide count, reports the Baltimore Sun. The ceasefire was interrupted when a man gunned down an off-duty Washington, D.C., cop in his neighborhood.
Despite the shooting, organizers continued with the events planned for their ceasefire weekend. They hosted “vent” booths where people could go inside to express frustrations with violence plaguing their city. A flash mob of women dancing broke out and men participated in a basketball tournament called “Hoop Don’t Hurt.”
“This is what my kids love to do, so if you’re giving them something that they want to do on a regular basis anyway, it keeps them busy and in a safe place,” high school teacher Adam Brown told the local newspaper. “And having the refs here is great, because it kind of diffuses any of the arguments that might start in a basketball game and evens the playing field.”