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Baltimore City Councilman: 'This is bigger than Freddie Gray'

Apr 29, 2015, 06:19 IST

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The chaos overtaking Baltimore in recent days has become something of a media spectacle as police and local government officials are being criticized for their handling of the unrest surrounding the death of Freddie Gray.

Media outlets have been under scrutiny, accused of ignoring what were largely peaceful protests, until they became violent.

Baltimore City Councilman Nick Mosby says the widespread unrest goes far beyond Freddie Gray's death.

In an interview with Fox News Monday night, Mosby said it's about the "social economics of poor, urban America." He describes those protesting in the community as "showing decades old of anger, frustration for a system that's failed them."

Mosby said that failed system has introduced a type of socioeconomic stagnation in Baltimore, where there's "a lack of education, lack of commercial development, lack of opportunities" - the culmination of which creates exactly the kind of environment volatile enough to "erupt anywhere in socially economically deprived America."

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Here's the full video of Mosby's interview:

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