Baltimore: What’s Behind the Uprising

National and international attention is still focused on Baltimore this week and on the way authorities have handled the case of Freddie Gray. Our correspondent Clayton Conn explores the elements behind this uprising. In East Baltimore, long-time residents decry what they say is a systematic process of gentrifying their neighborhood. Others speak of letting the neighborhood run down with a budget spent on policing instead of education and job training. There’s a 40% unemployment rate in the community with more than 30,000 homeless in the city of Baltimore even though the state of Maryland is one of the wealthiest in the nation. Residents say that it’s necessary to go beyond issues of racial profiling and police brutality and tackle issues of uneven development and the disintegration of the city’s communities. Clayton Conn reports from Baltimore for teleSUR.