Along-standing and much-loved celebration that typically draws hundreds of people – that’s how City Councilwoman Phylicia Porter describes the “Brooklyn Day” block party in her South Baltimore district that erupted into lethal gunfire early Sunday morning.
“It’s a reunion with people who are at Brooklyn Homes now or grew up there, returning to get together every summer,” Porter said today. “We see these type of events all over the city – Park Heights, Westport, Mt. Winans.”
So how did a big party, held at the public housing complex every summer for the last 27 years with police officers always on hand, wind up with no law enforcement presence this year?
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