‘Slave freedom travel papers’: Photo of 'Peacekeepers' badge from @BaltimorePolice sparks anger among protesters

Rising protest star Deray Mckesson shared a photo last night on Twitter reportedly of a special badge the Baltimore Police Department gave to certain activists in an effort to identify those in the crowd who were exempt from the 10 p.m. — 5 a.m. emergency curfew.

Makes sense, right?

This is the badge that the @BaltimorePolice have given to those allowed to stay past curfew. #BaltimoreUprising pic.twitter.com/rVEAe8q4lx

— deray (@deray) May 1, 2015

Well, not to the protesters who are quite angry with everything about it:

https://twitter.com/stevozone4/status/593951199814144000

@deray Ohmyword.

— Elizabeth Rogers Drouillard (@ThingsBright) May 1, 2015

@deray PeaceKeepers like In hunger games when peacekeepers Abused the people more than they help the…nvm..the odds are never in our favor

— Queen Nzinga (@QueenNzinga13) May 1, 2015

https://twitter.com/TheShipped/status/593951872999784448

To be fair, it does look like it would be quite easy to forge a duplicate.

https://twitter.com/idlediletante/status/594106698987610112

@deray What a strange backstage pass that is, @BaltimorePolice.

— Rachel Weidinger (@rachelannyes) May 1, 2015

More anger:

@deray … Then all Citizens should have one & the cops should go home! #BaltimoreUprising

— Original “got God?”® (@ugotGod) May 1, 2015

@deray So "respectable" white folks who agree to comply with all police orders (snitches and collaborators)?

— No Name (@FuckthisshitNo) May 1, 2015

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@deray shouldn't come from "Baltimore Police" but from "The City." It's like it's designed to offend. @BaltimorePolice

— Bruce Godfrey (@BruceGodfrey) May 1, 2015

@deray @BaltimorePolice Slave freedom travel papers

— CherronRambles.com (@CherronLampkins) May 1, 2015

@deray @PatrickKearns @BaltimorePolice allowed to stay out passed curfew haha. What is this? Stalin's Russia?

— Who Killed Dove? ? (@damagecase1982) May 1, 2015

@BWGREENLEAF @deray peacekeepers are a divisive element of any movement

— Who Killed Dove? ? (@damagecase1982) May 1, 2015

And some Constitutional scholars weighed in, too:

https://twitter.com/sasnfbi1234/status/593959253032841217

@sasnfbi1234 True. But most of it still holds up pretty well. @TheShipped @deray @BaltimorePolice

— FiredUpNow (@liz_belcher) May 1, 2015

https://twitter.com/sasnfbi1234/status/593959698807689216

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