Baltimore’s second Ceasefire weekend
For the second time this year, activists flooded the streets to promote 72 hours free of killing.
This second ceasefire began just a few hours after the city crossed a dark milestone: By Thursday night, Baltimore had suffered 300 homicides in the first 307 days of the year.
On the second day of the truce, another name was added to the list of victims.
Tony Anthony Mason Jr., 40, an off-duty Washington police officer who lived in Baltimore, was shot and killed early Saturday morning in the Panway/Braddish Avenue neighborhood. A woman who was with him was shot in the leg, police said.
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- Dorothea Powe of Edmondson Village loses her voice, shouting, “Cease the fire!” during the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend, held at Edmondson Village Shopping Center. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Participants hold hands during the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend, held at Edmondson Village Shopping Center. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Participants hold hands during the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend, held at Edmondson Village Shopping Center. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Community activist Valerie Keys, burns sage incense which she claims, cleanses the energy wherever people are, as Darlene Cain, with Mothers on the Move, Inc., holds out her arms during the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend, held at Edmondson Village Shopping Center. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- A participant holds a placard during the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend, held at Edmondson Village Shopping Center. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Miguel Carmona of Baltimore (left) and Mary Buchanan of Catonsville, who attends church in the neighborhood, hold up placards for passing motorists during the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend, held at Edmondson Village Shopping Center. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Community activist Valerie Keys, burns sage incense which she claims, cleanses the energy wherever people are, as Darlene Cain, with Mothers on the Move, Inc.,follows to keep the vessel filled as people hold hands during the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend, held at Edmondson Village Shopping Center. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Jules O’Quinn of Remington (left) and Karen Mattes of Remington commence smudging during a stop at Baltimore’s City Hall, on a bike run recognizing the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Shelley Purnell of Walbrook gets her sage stick lit, by Stacie Henderson of Mt. Vernon at Baltimore Bicycle Works before riding to City Hall and Wyman Park to participate in “smudging,” on a bike run recognizing the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Manny Ruiz of Union Square lights his smudging stick along with others at Baltimore Bicycle Works before riding to City Hall and Wyman Park to participate in “smudging,” on a bike run recognizing the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- The bicyclists arrive at City Hall, on a bike run recognizing the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Bicyclists speak about their efforts of smudging during a stop at Baltimore’s City Hall, on a bike run recognizing the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Stacie Henderson of Mt. Vernon holds her smoldering sage stick as the smoke rises toward Baltimore’s City Hall, on a bike run recognizing the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Having finished smudging, bicyclists leave Baltimore’s City Hall for Wyman Park, on a bike run recognizing the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Bicyclist Tina Carroll of Hampden blows on her smoldering sage stick while smudging at the site of one of Baltimore’s removed confederate monuments at Wyman Park, on a bike run recognizing the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Bicyclists stand on the base of one of Baltimore’s removed confederate monuments at Wyman Park, on a bike run recognizing the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Bicyclists smudge on the base of one of Baltimore’s removed confederate monuments at Wyman Park, on a bike run recognizing the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Erricka Bridgeford, Baltimore Cease Fire Weekend organizer at the spot where witnesses claim a victim was fatally shot wails in anguish at an overnight shooting on the 2800 block Elgin Avenue during the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend. Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Sgt. Tony Mason Jr. was shot, along with a female just after midnight. Sgt. Mason later died. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Erricka Bridgeford, Baltimore Cease Fire Weekend organizer leans into the road bed, pressing her hands at the spot where witnesses claim a victim was fatally shot at an overnight shooting on the 2800 block Elgin Avenue during the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend. Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Sgt. Tony Mason Jr. was shot, along with a female just after midnight. Sgt. Mason later died. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Timing her smudging to begin twelve hours after the expiration of the deceased, Ellen Gee uses smoldering sage for smudging at the spot where witnesses claim a victim was fatally shot at an overnight shooting on the 2800 block Elgin Avenue during the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend. Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Sgt. Tony Mason Jr. was shot, along with a female just after midnight. Sgt. Mason later died. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- A flier sits on a car windshield as Ellen Gee uses smoldering sage for smudging at the spot where witnesses claim a victim was fatally shot at an overnight shooting on the 2800 block Elgin Avenue during the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend. Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Sgt. Tony Mason Jr. was shot, along with a female just after midnight. Sgt. Mason later died. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Timing her smudging to begin twelve hours after the expiration of the deceased, Ellen Gee uses smoldering sage for smudging at the spot where witnesses claim a victim was fatally shot at an overnight shooting on the 2800 block Elgin Avenue during the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend. Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Sgt. Tony Mason Jr. was shot, along with a female just after midnight. Sgt. Mason later died. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Used purple medical gloves, used by first responders, rests on the street near the scene of an overnight shooting on the 2800 block Elgin Avenue during the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend. Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Sgt. Tony Mason Jr. was shot, along with a female just after midnight. Sgt. Mason later died. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- A flash mob dance commences at Edmondson Village Shopping Center, during the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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- Ellen Gee (left), Tammy Warner (background) and Jai Joyce (right) flash mob dance at Edmondson Village Shopping Center, during the second Baltimore Cease Fire weekend. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)
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