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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts) Fri Aug 21, 2015, 06:43 AM Aug 2015

Police patrol Rosedale neighborhood after man who waved Confederate flag charged in assault (MD)

By Alison Knezevich and Pamela Wood
The Baltimore Sun

Baltimore County police say they have stepped up patrols in a Rosedale neighborhood after a man who had been seen waving a Confederate battle flag in the area was accused of shouting racial slurs and threatening neighbors.

Brandon Michael Herold, who is white, was charged with assaulting two white neighbors Sunday in the 8000 block of Duvall Ave, according to court records. He faces charges of first- and second-degree assault.

A victim in the alleged assault told The Baltimore Sun on Thursday that Herold pointed at the homes of black families, used racial slurs and threatened to kill people ...

Herold was released on his own recognizance on the condition he enter mental health treatment at Sheppard Pratt Health System, according to court records ...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/bs-md-co-flag-assault-20150820-story.html

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struggle4progress

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1. Confederate Flag-Wielding Neighbor Causes Tensions In Rosedale

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Sat Aug 22, 2015, 03:10 AM

Aug 2015

August 21, 2015 11:18 PM
Derek Valcourt

... on Sunday Herold was back with his flag and was heard saying, “F these (expletive) N word and F this entire neighborhood, I’ll kill you all.”

Neighbors say Herold was confronted and a fight broke out.

Neighbor, Dave Buza, said he was just trying to break up the fight when the suspect came up to him with a knife ...

“The father came back the next day and made it worse. He came back the next day started threatening everybody saying you better stop pressing charges,” said Buza ...

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/08/21/confederate-flag-wielding-neighbor-causes-tensions-in-rosedale/

struggle4progress

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2. Confederate flag-waving teen faces charges after stabbing

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Sat Aug 22, 2015, 03:12 AM

Aug 2015

Jeff Hager
5:48 PM, Aug 21, 2015
5:49 PM, Aug 21, 2015

... "I tried to tell everybody I'd call the police and tell them to stop. The neighbor was already stopping and then the guy came at me with a knife," said Dave Buza.

Buza got seven stitches for his involvement.

"I was just protecting myself," he said.

Police arrested 18-year-old Brandon Herold on assault and weapons charges, and later charged his father, Harry Herold, after he allegedly peeked in the windows of several victims ...

http://www.abc2news.com/news/crime-checker/baltimore-county-crime/flag-bearing-teen-faces-charges-after-stabbing

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