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Baltimore Orioles COO John Angelos tweets powerful defense of protests

Published Apr. 27, 2015 10:53 p.m. ET

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During the Baltimore Orioles and Boston Red Sox's series this past weekend, protests filled the streets outside of Camden Yards. Brett Hollander, a broadcaster at WBAL, took to Twitter to voice his opinion about the disruptions:

As a response, Orioles COO John Angelos, son of owner Peter Angelos, passionately defended those protesting in Baltimore. Here it is, transcribed by USA Today from his Twitter:

"That said, my greater source of personal concern, outrage and sympathy beyond this particular case is focused neither upon one night’s property damage nor upon the acts, but is focused rather upon the past four-decade period during which an American political elite have shipped middle class and working class jobs away from Baltimore and cities and towns around the U.S. to third-world dictatorships like China and others, plunged tens of millions of good, hard-working Americans into economic devastation, and then followed that action around the nation by diminishing every American’s civil rights protections in order to control an unfairly impoverished population living under an ever-declining standard of living and suffering at the butt end of an ever-more militarized and aggressive surveillance state.

"The innocent working families of all backgrounds whose lives and dreams have been cut short by excessive violence, surveillance, and other abuses of the Bill of Rights by government pay the true price, and ultimate price, and one that far exceeds the importances of any kids’ game played tonight, or ever, at Camden Yards. We need to keep in mind people are suffering and dying around the U.S., and while we are thankful no one was injured at Camden Yards, there is a far bigger picture for poor Americans in Baltimore and everywhere who don’t have jobs and are losing economic civil and legal rights, and this makes inconvenience at a ballgame irrelevant in light of the needless suffering government is inflicting upon ordinary Americans."

(h/t USA Today)

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