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douglas9

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Sun May 3, 2015, 04:03 PM May 2015

These Photos of the Vegas Fight and the Baltimore Protests Perfectly Sum Up Inequality in America

On Saturday night, the biggest news story in America was the welterweight championship fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, in Las Vegas (Mayweather won). The second biggest was probably the continuing demonstrations across the nation over the death of Freddie Gray: Police in Baltimore deployed pepper spray and arrested protesters defying a 10 p.m. curfew.

The two events are completely unrelated, of course, unfolding on opposite sides of the continent. But it's hard to resist making some simple comparisons, especially when you see a photo like this one posted on Twitter by Los Angeles sports reporter Liz Habib. Just look at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas:




http://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/05/baltimore-protests-las-vegas-fight-mayweather-photos-inequality

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