BALTIMORE (AP) — A man was shot and killed after he swung a baseball bat at a person who cleans windshields at intersections for cash, Baltimore’s police commissioner said Thursday.
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The 48-year-old man who was shot was driving through an intersection near Baltimore’s Inner Harbor in the afternoon when he encountered so-called squeegee workers and had a heated interaction, Commissioner Michael Harrison told reporters.
Squeegee workers, also known as squeegee kids, consist mostly of teens from low-income neighborhoods who clean drivers’ windshields at intersections in exchange for money. Some drivers in Baltimore have complained about them.
The man drove through the intersection, parked his car and came back with a baseball bat, Harrison said.
“He swung the bat at one or more of those squeegee workers. In return, one of the squeegee workers pulled out a gun and fired, striking this male victim,” the commissioner said, adding that police didn’t know if he hit anyone with the bat.
The man was pronounced dead at a hospital. His name wasn’t released.
The workers fled the scene on foot, Harrison said. No arrests had been made as of late afternoon.
A witness told The Baltimore Sun that he saw a squeegee worker shoot the man after he got out of his car with the bat. Cody Bro, who was visiting Baltimore for a convention, said he saw the driver “arguing with one of the squeegee people — the people who squeegee your windows.”
Rudy got rid of that scourge in NYC close to three decades ago.
“Persons who cleans windshields at intersections for cash” is a term for groups of often armed youths who jump on your car, claim they washed it for you, and menacingly demand you give them money.
Welcome to life in Dem cities and their Soros prosecutors.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
Never bring a bat to a gunfight.
If somebody swung a baseball bat at your head, and you had a gun, what would you do?
too bad he didn’t hit a home run
Those squeegee thugs are just that – thugs. They’ve been terrorizing Baltimore for 10 years or so. Nobody wants to drive downtown anymore, mostly because of these thugs. These black men act in groups, they attack your car and demand you pay them. If you refuse their “services,” they either vandalize your car or, if your door is inadvertently unlocked, punch you in the head. Successive black mayors of Baltimore refuse to deal with these criminals. The current mayor, instead, offered them real jobs. Needless to say, those hoodlums don’t want jobs. Some animals can’t live in captivity, right?
Cities need mayors like Rudy to clean up the streets
Who keeps cash around anymore? Do the squeegee people accept credit cards? all kidding aside, this is terrible reflection of society, a family has lost their loved one and for no reason. police need to deal with the kids, programs to get the kids productive rather than bored are a worthwhile investment,
Good for the squeegee guy. He felt his life was being threatened. Every cop in America would have done the same and no DA in America would bring charges against him.