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In reply to the discussion: Eyewitnesses: The Baltimore Riots Didn't Start the Way You Think [View all]JonLP24
(29,322 posts)He was the peaceful activist whose sudden disappearance into a phalanx of riot police on a Baltimore street sparked a viral panic.
Sixteen hours after Joseph Kent, 21, was filmed being snatched by police out of a road in the west side of the city, the Guardian has established his whereabouts.
The Morgan State University student is currently in a large bullpen with other inmates on the second floor of Baltimore central booking, a jail 10 minutes from the city hall.
Kent, who has been charged with one count of breach of a 10pm curfew, wants the public to know he is well and safe and is asking Baltimore residents to follow his lead by refraining from violence.
Kents sudden disappearance around 11.10pm ET Tuesday was filmed by live CNN cameras, and prompted an outcry on social media. He had his hands in the air when riot police swooped in, and a police humvee-style truck temporarily blocked him from view of the media.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/29/baltimore-protester-kidnapped-on-live-tv-joseph-kent
Certainly appears to be the case in Baltimore especially with the mass arrests without charges & the hundred thousand bond amounts. The second floor had to be cleared out to make room just for people detained at protests.