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Nov 13, 2008, 10:19AM

More on the Baltimore Election Night Arrests

How a 42-year-old senior Johns Hopkins employee and freelance journalist ended up in the back of a patty wagon on election night.

More here and here on the arrests in Baltimore which Splice editor Andrew Sargus Klein mentioned in his column, "Obama the Figurehead."

It struck me, then--the pathetic and surreal absurdity of my situation. Why was I, a 42-year-old husband and father of two young daughters, a senior employee of Johns Hopkins, a freelance journalist, and a law-abiding, civic-minded guy, sitting in my piss-soaked underwear in the back of a paddy wagon outside the Northern District police station?The day had begun with such promise.

 

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