Baltimore Protests: Orioles Executive Offers Perspective on 'Lives and Dreams Cut Short'

It's written in our Constitution In the first Amendment "right of the people peaceably to assemble" I think a key word is 'peaceably."

— Brett Hollander (@BrettHollander) April 26, 2015

Everyone should feel fortunate for our freedoms in this country, as written in our Constitution.... (1/4)

— Brett Hollander (@BrettHollander) April 26, 2015

I'm by no means a legal scholar, so please understand that, but protests should not violate the basic freedoms of non-protestors. (2/4)

— Brett Hollander (@BrettHollander) April 26, 2015

People of a community should be able to commute, commerce should happen & citizens who want to go to a ballgame should be able to go. (3/4)

— Brett Hollander (@BrettHollander) April 26, 2015

And any really important message out of these protests is lost when the rest of the community is disrupted. (4/4)

— Brett Hollander (@BrettHollander) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop Brett speaking only for myself i agree with your point that the principle of peaceful, non-violent protest

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop and the observance of the rule of law is of utmost importance in any society. MLK, Gandhi, Mandela, and all

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop great opposition leaders throughout history have always preached this precept. Further, it is critical .

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop that in any democracy investigation must be completed and due process must be honored before any government

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop or police members are judged responsible. That said, my greater source of personal concern, outrage and

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop sympathy beyond this particular case is focused neither upon one night's property damage nor upon the acts

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop group but is focused rather upon the past four-decade period during which an American political elite

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop have shipped middle class and working class jobs away from Baltimore and cities and towns around the US to

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop 3rd world dictatorships like China and others plunged tens of millions of good hard working americans

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop into economic devastation and then followed that action around the nation by diminishing every American's

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop civil rights protections in order to control an unfairly impoverished population living under an

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop declining standard of living and suffering at the butt end of an ever-more militarized and aggressive

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop surveillance state. The innocent working families of all backgrounds whose lives and dreams have been cut

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop short by excessive violence, surveillance, and other abuses of the bill of rights by government pay the

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop true price, an ultimate price, and one that far exceeds the importance of any kids' game played

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop tonight, or ever, at Camden Yards. We need to keep in mind people are suffering and dying around the US and

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop while we are thankful no one was injured at Camden Yards, there is a far bigger picture for poor Americans

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop in Baltimore and everywhere who don't have jobs and are losing economic civil and legal rights and this is

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop makes inconvenience at a ball game irrelevant in light of the needless suffering government is inflicting

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015

@BrettHollander @ThBaltimoreChop upon ordinary Americans.

— John P Angelos (@JohnPAngelos) April 26, 2015