{"id":32242,"date":"2020-10-17T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32242"},"modified":"2020-10-17T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T19:33:11","slug":"32242","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32242","title":{"rendered":"INTIMIDATION AT THE BALLOT BOX: &#8220;Attempted Robbery&#8221; in Baltimore"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8220;Attempted Robbery&#8221; &#8211; Security Guard Assigned To Ballot Box Shot In Baltimore<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>The virus pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/democrats-gain-early-voting\">number of Americans voting by mail<\/a>\u00a0or using ballet drop boxes this election season. Some of these drop boxes, especially those in Baltimore City, are guarded by a private security force, considering the liberal-run metro area is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/violence-spreads-across-us-45-shot-11-killed-baltimore-last-week\">violent mess<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Baltimore City police confirmed a ballot box security guard was shot and wounded in Northeast Baltimore, reported local news\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/article\/sources-guard-shot-at-ballot-box-located-at-achievement-academy\/34384789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WBAL-TV 11<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/md%20ballot%20box.jpg?itok=W-n5X7-Q\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/md%20ballot%20box.jpg?itok=W-n5X7-Q\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/md%20ballot%20box.jpg?itok=Ci6aMKvg 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/md%20ballot%20box.jpg?itok=Ci6aMKvg 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/md%20ballot%20box.jpg?itok=Ci6aMKvg 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/md%20ballot%20box.jpg?itok=Ci6aMKvg 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/md%20ballot%20box.jpg?itok=Ci6aMKvg 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/md%20ballot%20box.jpg?itok=W-n5X7-Q 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/md%20ballot%20box.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"ec4cafee-90a6-4948-a30b-e46e43657f2a\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>City police said the incident occurred in the early morning hours on Thursday, outside the Achievement Academy in the 2200 block of Pinewood Ave. Officers found the 24-year-old security guard shot multiple times &#8211; was immediately taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1316800422858895360&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fattempted-robbery-security-guard-assigned-ballot-box-shot-baltimore&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1316800422858895360\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Baltimore City Election Director Armstead Jones told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/crime\/bs-md-ci-cr-ballot-box-security-guard-shot-20201015-sih3zakbjrdippjzsxmwnwu7au-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Baltimore Sun<\/a>\u00a0that the guard was contracted by a private security company operating on behalf of the Baltimore City Board of Elections to monitor the city&#8217;s ballot drop boxes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After looking at video surveillance footage of the parking lot, detectives learned that armed subjects approached the victim&#8217;s vehicle and tried to open the car door,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement continued, &#8220;the ballot box was not touched and did not appear at any time to be the focus of the gunmen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Election officials said the guard was in serious but stable condition:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our thoughts are with the victim of this morning&#8217;s tragic shooting as well as his loved ones. We are actively cooperating with the authorities investigating this matter. Because this is an ongoing investigation&#8230;,&#8221; Maryland Elections tweeted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>While police do not believe the attempted robbery had anything to do with the ballot box, the incident&#8217;s timing is suspicious weeks before the presidential election.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/attempted-robbery-security-guard-assigned-ballot-box-shot-baltimore\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/attempted-robbery-security-guard-assigned-ballot-box-shot-baltimore<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Attempted Robbery&#8221; &#8211; Security Guard Assigned To Ballot Box Shot In Baltimore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}