No matter what your opinions on what’s going on in Baltimore, we can all agree on the fact that the media’s coverage of the rioting isn’t doing anyone any favors. While media outlets are busy focusing on the negative (all the while failing to report that reporters make up the majority of the “growing crowd”), they are failing to showcase what community members in Baltimore are doing to keep their city in one piece. Luckily, social media allows Baltimore residents to share the positive things they’re doing during this nightmare with the rest of the world. Check out the hopeful photos and videos below.
They not showing this on the news https://t.co/oUPk2ItvC1 — Rastakid25 (@Let_Me_Work) April 27, 2015
Was this on the news? #baltimore #blacklivesmatter #baltimoreriots #wearebaltimore #baltimorestrong A photo posted by Megan Nicole (@meganthomas86) on Apr 28, 2015 at 10:32am PDT
RT @ProfessorPash: BOOST THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! #Baltimore RT @CurvaceousCodi: Make this go viral pic.twitter.com/IkYjSuFTN3 — Miss Petty Wap (@LilPhatty_) April 28, 2015
regram @kaycee082 God bless this child and the parents who are raising him properly. #baltimoreriots #dountoothers #hatebreedshate A photo posted by Richie (@gnnabgib) on Apr 28, 2015 at 7:42pm PDT
Stand for something, or you will fall for anything! #RIP #freddiegray #BALTIMORE A photo posted by rod_da_god (@rod_da_god) on Apr 28, 2015 at 7:33pm PDT
Milan, 8, and Zamarai, 9, are classmates and live nearby the CVS. “We wanted to help the community out.” pic.twitter.com/mEbawmQ9qW — Nicolás Medina Mora (@MedinaMora) April 28, 2015
Dozens of volunteers out in force to clean up #Baltimore this morning. pic.twitter.com/o3mzzyejPf — Hannah Marr (@_hmmarr) April 28, 2015
Performance for the crowd #FreddieGray pic.twitter.com/0N9qW299wf — Sputnik US (@SputnikNewsUS) April 27, 2015
People clean up a CVS store that was looted http://t.co/tquCyZ5ldK pic.twitter.com/VZmxOOSXaY — Colin Campbell (@BKcolin) April 28, 2015
Now this is what the media should be portraying. Powerful black men protesting the right way #Baltimore pic.twitter.com/pnXtYpcdWD — Jayrell Cephas (@BuiltToWin_) April 28, 2015
#Baltimore police have asked parents to find their kids amid #BaltimoreRiots. Here’s a van @Darielm saw. #FreddieGray pic.twitter.com/i7j25i6Vmd — AJ+ (@ajplus) April 27, 2015
The pain my city is in #Baltimore I repeat…I do not condone the violence #ilovemycity #operationcleanup #prayersup #news #cnn #teamHarmornyRoxx ? #vocalist #songwriter #HarmonyRoxx #HarmonyRoxxontherise #instamusic #instadaily #indieartist #indiemusic #RandB #hiphop We’ve got to do better #BlackLivesMatter #alllivesmatter A photo posted by Harmony Roxx (@harmonyroxx_official) on Apr 28, 2015 at 6:52am PDT