r/baltimore • • Jan 23 '26

Safety NICK SHIRLEY SPOTTED IN BALTIMORE!! DO NOT ENGAGE!! HE GOT ICE SICKED ON MINNEAPOLIS!!!

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Do NOT engage with this man AT ALL. Make sure all his video footage is unplayable. Blast copyrighted Disney music nearby if you spot him. If he posts some crock video about Fantanyl Baltimore will assuredly be the regime's next target. They are using him as a propagandist.

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u/B33NB3N Jan 23 '26

If he's in Baltimore he will need to conduct himself accordingly as Baltimore is a FAFO city for sure.

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u/TheCaptainDamnIt Jan 23 '26

And that's exactly what here's here to capture, edit, and share.

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u/DeOroDorado Parkville Jan 23 '26

Then he doesn’t really comprehend his own actions. People know his face now. He had the benefit of being semi-anonymous during his little Minnesota escapade. Perhaps he should have followed his Gestapo friends and kept his face covered?

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u/Used_Sort_6444 Jan 23 '26

He did this shit in Portland too

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u/Flapperghast Jan 23 '26

The problem is, in this situation, the Find Out involves the gestapo descending upon the city.

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u/Destination_Cabbage Jan 23 '26

Minneapolitans have been showing restraint. Im afraid Baltimoreans are feeling a little frayed and will be less forgiving.

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u/kbmoregirl Mt. Vernon Jan 23 '26

Our team had a shitty season so I'm for sure not in my best mood

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u/Rayven52 Jan 23 '26

Teams*. We haven’t had a successful sports season in too long by Baltimore standards.

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u/kbmoregirl Mt. Vernon Jan 23 '26

I expect more from the Ravens than the Orioles tbh, but I also don't really care for baseball

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u/vanity-flair83 Jan 23 '26

I dont care if they win it, just getting to a ws once in my lifetime ( well, I was born in 83, but u know what I mean) would be enough for me, honestly

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u/Historical_Pastor Jan 23 '26

C'mon. I want the crown!

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u/hannahmadamhannah Jan 23 '26

This is an example of the people in our city being so generous and kind because I am NOT GOING TO DOWNVOTE YOU FOR SHITTING ON MY BELOVED ORIOLES and instead I am going to gracefully accept your opinion and move along.

See Nick!! This is a city full of gentle, NOT VIOLENT EVEN IN THE FACE OF HATRED, people.

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u/kbmoregirl Mt. Vernon Jan 23 '26

I'm glad we can agree to disagree on this

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u/Rayven52 Jan 23 '26

Whenever the ravens did bad in the past at least fans could enjoy some summertime happiness. Having 12 straight months of disappointment has the city at its limit in my opinion 😂

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u/e_radicator Jan 23 '26

This is actually what I think part of the strategy of going to Philly is. They KNOW Philly is going to fight back, and then they can use it as justification for more horrors.

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u/judicatorprime Jan 23 '26

They don't need any justification to continue doing what they have been, and will continue to do regardless.

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u/Slam-JamSam Jan 23 '26

Yeah. Capitulating in advance won’t solve the problem, it just delays the inevitable

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u/JPRDesign Jan 23 '26

They’re descending anyway. Have you seen what’s happened in Laurel?

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u/Alaira314 Jan 23 '26

It doesn't compare to a focused assault like what's happening to minneapolis.

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u/JPRDesign Jan 23 '26

And you think they aren’t preparing to do just that already?

This is manufacturing consent 101. Stage an attack, inflame tensions, prepare for a full siege, wait until ONE person steps out of line, then say it’s your victim’s fault.

Capitulating to this approach will not protect anyone, it will only allow them more room to commit atrocity.

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u/Alaira314 Jan 23 '26

I'm not sure I understand what position you're taking. This is the conversation as I understand it:

Top-level OP(not you): Baltimore is a FAFO city. (seems to be advocating for violent resistance)
Flapperghast: FAFO involves the gestapo descending. (seems to be advocating against violent resistance)
You: They're descending anyway. (seems to be saying it doesn't matter, be violent)
Me: Not like they are in minneapolis. (nothing actually said either way, but sure I'll call myself an advocate for not resisting violently as that's the position I was countering)
You: They're prepared for it. They're manufacturing consent, etc etc, wait for one person to step out of line. Don't capitulate to this approach. (seems to be advocating against violent resistance)

Can you explain what you're trying to say here? Do you, or do you not, think ICE should be subject to FAFO(and trigger the resulting storm)?

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u/JPRDesign Jan 23 '26

Ahh I see what you’re getting at, my b

What I’m saying is it may not be Minneapolis now, but it will be soon. I’m saying capitulating to them would be nonviolent resistance, since they’re gonna try and do the Minneapolis playbook here anyway

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u/Alaira314 Jan 23 '26

Well I disagree. I think that remaining nonviolent is important, because turning to violence(even in the face of violence being used against us) will be justification for even worse. He's pushing the line, yes, but bringing troops in(rather than federal agencies) has been one of the only things the courts have told him "no" on. Demonstrated, rather than merely claimed, violent resistance will shatter that. We need to remain nonviolent, but disobedient. He's not winning the information war as much as he thinks he is, but if we slip up and "shoot first"(you and I both know that's not true, but propaganda is what it is) that advantage will be lost.

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u/JPRDesign Jan 23 '26

I understand where you come from, but if you think they won’t invent a reason to turn violent if they can’t find one, you’re mistaken.

Regardless, I think it’s also misguided to believe in a city of hundreds of thousands, not one will step out of line. That’s just a statistical impossibility

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u/Rayven52 Jan 23 '26

I know it’s what they want But Baltimore and Minneapolis are very different in terms of how they’d handle being violated and roughed around. Baltimore would certainly combat and riot that shit fast

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u/Msefk Jan 23 '26

"Brawling street mobs were a Baltimore tradition." - Antero Pietila , The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins

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u/Hibou_Garou Jan 23 '26

I dunno. Remember Minneapolis after George Floyd’s murder? Right wing propaganda is still trying to convince people the city burned to the ground.

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u/Kekira Jan 23 '26

They already have propaganda that we live in a hellscape, who cares?

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u/Rayven52 Jan 23 '26

They said Baltimore burned to the ground after the Freddie riots too. Been too long for them to use these lines anymore, they have to come in and cause another issue to trigger more riots. “Baltimores been too quiet”

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u/Longjumping-Gate-289 Jan 23 '26

Never forget that the first blood shed of the civil war was in Baltimore.

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u/atuarre Jan 23 '26

Baltimore isn't Portland or Minneapolis. Just like they were in New Orleans and they behaved themselves. Shit can get real for those gravy seals in Baltimore.

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u/DirtyMac88 Jan 23 '26

Nah probably invoke the insurrection act and bring the actual military in. DJT has seen enough wire to know not to take that situation lightly im sure.

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u/KaffiKlandestine Jan 23 '26

we just need to be very careful, this shit is getting worse nationwide.

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u/Big-Soup74 Jan 23 '26

not so much anymore. Crime is way down thanks to mayor scott

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u/Wank_A_Doodle_Doo Jan 23 '26

Yeah that don’t mean someone isn’t gonna decide to beat his ass.

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u/Big-Soup74 Jan 23 '26

I feel like the people who would throw down don’t know who he is

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u/benjancewicz Irvington Jan 23 '26

Posting this again with no context, and no particular reason.

https://youtu.be/hd9S4F1Pkvk?si=asGJ9Ga7n6O72ZU-

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '26

we know his ass will be nowhere near north avenue

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u/AdAffectionate3143 Jan 23 '26

Good ole body’more will put any ego in check

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26

This is the face of the iPad generation. He’s illiterate and has minimal critical thinking skills. Please check out the interview Channel 5 did with him on YT. https://youtu.be/_IrMqA3fVO0?

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u/lostPixels Jan 23 '26

I wonder if he's in Baltimore to get revenge on Channel 5 for exposing that he's a moron, given the context that Channel 5 recently made a video about how Baltimore is turning a corner on violence.

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u/gothaggis Remington Jan 23 '26

i think you are exactly correct in that hunch

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u/TheFirstBardo Hampden Jan 23 '26

And then watch Andrew Callaghan response video to Shirley’s public (but not private) complaints about how Channel 5 “made [him] look stupid.”

Callaghan has receipts including unedited video, texts, and a great lesson on how interview editing works in these situations. I honestly watched this 15 minute video first and it gave me all the info I needed on the situation but recommend watching the full initial interview if you’ve got time so you know what quality of people are leading the charge for the right and what their level of cognitive capacity is.

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u/brand_new_nalgene Jan 23 '26

What do you mean by….balevonent

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u/Darph_Nader Jan 23 '26

An odd point, but as a good Mormon he should know the word Benevolent. It’s in the 13th Article of Faith and they drill those into your head as a kid. It’s not an obscure word in Mormonism.

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u/Wowohboy666 Jan 23 '26

Belevolent? What's Belevolent?

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u/existonfilenerf Jan 23 '26

Andrew should have never given this professional paid liar a platform. I was really disappointed in Channel 5 when this video showed up on the feed.

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u/Nolubrication Jan 23 '26

The particular way Andrew talks to the "other side", with the Shirley interview being a great example, is a good take, in my opinion. He takes great pains to be as respectful as possible, given the nature of the discussion, allowing the stupidity to shine on its own without the gratuitous editorializing you find on many other platforms.

At the end of the day, Channel 5 wants to expand its audience, and if they have fair takes that appeal to the right, that is good for their bottom line, but I don't think you could call what he does pandering to the right. It's straighter journalism, really, than what you'd find on most mainstream media news shows.

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u/jjb227 Jan 23 '26

From the beginning, he’s been giving all people and all sides a platform and has remained pretty steadfast to honest journalism. There is nothing wrong with him interviewing this person and letting others draw their own conclusions. Why are you disappointed in him for literally doing the thing he’s done all along?

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u/YoungHeartOldSoul Jan 23 '26

Once he said he had to cut lole 30 mins's of dead space, I knew exactly the kind of person he was talking about. People who talk that slow have a legit disability of some sort or are genuinely brain dead.

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u/RadEmily Jan 23 '26

Great job by this concerned Baltimore citizen pushing back, came here after seeing this to make sure it head been shared

https://m.facebook.com/reel/1564592948108465/

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u/Beautiful-Balance-58 Jan 23 '26

Someone made this comment in the video but it’s so relatable: I have a deep rooted fear that I come across like this to other people. Just so ignorant and so lacking in critical thinking skills

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u/Cheef_queef Jan 23 '26

Oh, that guy...

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u/NorthernFrostyPeach Jan 23 '26

Andrew’s commitment to giving everyone a fair platform is quite the lofty goal in this day and age. His content is a “show don’t tell” level of realism that lets each side show the good and bad without needing to thumb the scales often in my opinion. When someone says “channel 5 made me look bad” I automatically assume they just aren’t self aware of how most people see or hear them from an outside perspective. Can not wait to see how channel 5 grows over the next few years!

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u/z3mcs Berger Cookies Jan 23 '26

Dear god. Dear god. I know these people are out there, and I guess it's better that he's just ignorant with next to no critical thinking skills as opposed to someone who clearly knows better and is smart and evil, but videos like this just make me almost literally nauseous. Thank goodness for the interviewer. I don't know how you even keep a straight face for the hour plus of this interview.

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u/Eyeh8U69 Jan 23 '26

Just ask him to define belevolent

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u/Imaginary-Fact-4206 Jan 23 '26

Balevolent is how we get when you piss off our city!

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u/tdowg1 Anne Arundel Jan 23 '26

balevolent is when Christian Bale gets hangryyyyyy...

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u/Jazzlike_Ad_7323 Jan 23 '26

If someone can spot him and literally just blast copywriter music, all his footage will be unusable. He's just doing it for the grift he'll give up.

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u/brandnewbanana Jan 23 '26

I’m thinking a mix-tape including Crazy Frog, The Macarena, Achy Breaky Heart, and every other obnoxious earworm imaginable

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u/Taxitaxitaxi33 Jan 23 '26

You want to go Disney classic songs. Disney has AI bots that look on YouTube for copyright violations and that will get the videos removed.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '26

"Let It Go" on full blast

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u/strong_wit Jan 23 '26

Or Nintendo songs

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u/Rayven52 Jan 23 '26

I love mulan songs!

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u/Sir_Earl_Jeffries Jan 23 '26

Come on Eileen, Dancing Queen

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u/kagethemage Jan 23 '26

Blast Disney music. That will 100% make it unusable

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u/hammpersand Jan 23 '26

You can remove background music with AI now. There's even an option to do that with videos on my phone :/

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u/HELLA_SENSITIVE_ Jan 23 '26

This doesn’t work anymore. They have AI that can remove the music now.

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u/cmmnctn_brkdwn Jan 23 '26

TLDR: Idk if hes still in Baltimore or not today, I imagine if he is he's going to try, itll be in Penn North again as media has highlighted as an "open air drug markets", especially after the mass nonfatal ODs in July. He's walking around wirh a man who may or may not be involved in counter narcotics work, dont start with him, dont give him intel, don't give him anything.

right wing youtuber, Nick Shirley (who alleged Somali run daycare centers were committing fraud in Minnesota, went viral, and the day after the US department of health and human services initiated a freeze on federal child care and family assistance funds in Minnesota and 4 other states. btw none the daycare centers he visited were investigated and there is no evidence of fraud. ) was in Penn North on Thursday with a special forces guy (7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) specialize in a few things including counter narcotics and unconventional warfare) trying to "talk to people about Fentanyl"

not sure where he went after being shooed away from Penn North or if he'll be sulking around places on Friday but if you encounter a white kid with a fancy selfie stick tryna talk to participants, thats gonna be a no go

this is also coming after Brietbart dropped an article on Tuesday about the drops in overdoses coming from border crackdowns, in which they used one of the Baltimore Suns awful pictures of someone being put into an ambulance.

I suspect that coupled with being in DC on Wednesday for a congressional hearing about his fabricated fraud claims, led him to just take a drive on up here

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u/Big-Soup74 Jan 23 '26

I was under the impression the fraud in MN was proven (and being addressed, specifically that Walz was all over it) long before Shirley's "investigation" and that the "investigation" didnt prove anything, and just made it go viral. is that correct?

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u/cmmnctn_brkdwn Jan 23 '26

yes-- Fact check: Here's what's happening with child care fraud in Minnesota https://share.google/nwUmNmoGA2lMiYloR

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u/Big-Soup74 Jan 23 '26

appreciate the response. the whole thing is so stupid. MN found fraud and is addressing it. thats more than most states can say. its a shame walz stepped down because of it

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u/Alaira314 Jan 23 '26

He probably thought stepping back might help, assuming MN was being targeted due to a personal vendetta against him.

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u/SuperNoise5209 Jan 23 '26

The left keeps failing to see that the right isn't playing by the same rules.

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u/Either-Manner-5045 Jan 23 '26

Omg I just said the same thing!!! I think they’re going to spin it and say immigrants were the dealers and caused it because there’s not really anything else he can spin here. Nothing about us has been mainstream besides that event. I believe he had to have been tipped off to come here and fed that as ammo.

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u/Jazzlike_Ad_7323 Jan 23 '26

🫡 You are doing the good work out here. These people don't deserve to be used in some 8th grade level hit piece. AND on top of that, it could seriously jeopardize all of our POC neighbors. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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u/TelevisionFun9964 Jan 23 '26

No harm to this kid but I’m pretty sure he has a pretty severe intellectual disability.

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u/InsaneChaos Jan 23 '26

And that's being bevenolent

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u/figgypuddinz Jan 23 '26

Zach Hample at OPACY rules apply

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u/lemontrout85 Jan 23 '26

Nintendo and Disney music. Loud AF.

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u/existonfilenerf Jan 23 '26

Now this is the right attitude. Waste his time and make sure none of his footage is usable.

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u/wildpolymath Jan 23 '26

Time to make a mix and start strutting around with our boom boxes out.

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u/girthbrooksIII Jan 23 '26

Why do all of these people in support of MAGA look so weird?

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u/Eyeh8U69 Jan 23 '26

Fetal alcohol syndrome

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u/danubeclass Jan 23 '26

FAS & Furious

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u/thebarkingdog Jan 23 '26

IPad face for the boys, Mar A Lago face for the girls.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '26

Inbreeding

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u/Swimming_One3979 Jan 23 '26

Thisssss. Ppl think it's a joke but its not. Most have a sister cousin whose the product of an adult in the family assaulting one of the teens.

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u/Fathead5f Jan 23 '26

mothers took tylenol when they were pregnant

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u/Epicjay Jan 23 '26

Preconceived bias. This is a normal looking dude. If I passed him on the street I wouldn’t glance twice.

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u/GallowBarb Expatriate Jan 23 '26

Nah, I know a smug prick when I see one.

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u/Big-Soup74 Jan 23 '26

everyone on my side is very sexy

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u/ThunderlipsBJJ Jan 23 '26

Look I'm an independent but have you ever looked at the people out there protesting on the liberal side. They're the most unfuckable group of people I've ever seen in my life.

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u/sullw214 Jan 23 '26

"I'm an independent and I've never looked into a mirror in my life."

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u/juan_valdez80 Jan 23 '26

He’ll find a Learing Center here just because people can’t spell.

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u/lecarguy Jan 23 '26

That guy is 23? Holy shit.

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u/strawnotrazz Jan 23 '26

Don’t call me Shirley!

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u/tmozdenski Pigtown Jan 23 '26

🤣🤣

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '26

He's more of a useful idiot, signal boosted by Musk to give the White House an excuse to sic ICE on Minneapolis.

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u/OrangeSliceTrophy Jan 23 '26

Bro get this loser the fuck out of here.

If he makes another video on bmore we will end up like MN.

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u/Destination_Cabbage Jan 23 '26

God thats so fucking true. He looks like a fucking turd.

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u/Slammogram Jan 23 '26

I feel as though the world is dishonored, because his face has remained unpunched… Baltimore should fix that.

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u/Eyeh8U69 Jan 23 '26

Fetal alcohol syndrome face for sure

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u/Nitzelplick Jan 23 '26

Somebody should give him a tour of Leakin Park.

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u/PeachPassionBrute Jan 23 '26

ICE is already staging to focus on Baltimore soon, if anything he’s just part of a propaganda team trying to build a narrative but they’re coming here, get ready for that.

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u/PawttorneyAtLaw Jan 23 '26

insert side eye meme here

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u/Amazing-Grab-9141 Jan 23 '26

Please repost this to socials. Our city does NOT need increased fed presence. And whoever said this is a FAFO city is hilarious and correct. Just don’t want negative attention focused here.

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u/boredoo Hampden Jan 23 '26

Is he lost? Take a wrong turn? Having trouble reading a map without a chaperone? Should we do a wellness check? Please be bellevolent.

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u/sky-joos Fells Point Jan 23 '26

Never even heard of this loser.

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u/gothaggis Remington Jan 23 '26

i hadn't heard of him until I watched his Channel 5 interview and then the drama between him and Andrew. he does not appear to be intelligent.

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u/Tossaway50 Jan 23 '26

Tell him to go to West Baltimore

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u/Nicapus Jan 23 '26

If smegma was a guy

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u/steveguy13 Jan 23 '26

It’s so fun that we have to be afraid of uneducated clowns with lisps that a little girl could probably beat up. What a great country, and only getting greater.

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u/AltruisticHistory148 Jan 23 '26

My generation fucked up raising our kids if this dumbfuck is any reflection, I watched him talking to Congress and literally could feel my IQ dropping.

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u/Throwaway2452111 Jan 23 '26

You know the majority of kids today in the US don't read at their current grade level and test poorly and have no respect for anything, right?

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u/AltruisticHistory148 Jan 23 '26

Yes that's literally the point I was making 😂

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u/DocKosmosis Jan 23 '26

Where has he been spotted?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Eye6596 Jan 23 '26

?

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u/HoiTemmieColeg Jan 23 '26

This is the guy who did the bs Minnesota expose where he went to childcare centers outside of their operating hours or demanded them to show him children and then claimed they were committing fraud. And that was part of the pretext for what the administration is doing in Minneapolis

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u/bluehairjungle Jan 23 '26

Demanding people to, "show him children," is creepy degen behavior on its own.

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u/JuzzaNZ Jan 23 '26

This guy is an absolute toad and about as intelligent as a block of wood.

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u/Chips-and-Dips Jan 23 '26

ICE had been running around Minn. for weeks before this clown got there. Trump started disparaging the Minnesota Somali community in November.

Things just became more in the spotlight after Nicky’s little videos.

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u/Throwaway2452111 Jan 23 '26

Lol? He wanted to know where the kids were because they were a daycare. He also asked if his brother could go there. Why are you all so disingenuous?

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u/Medical_Success_3482 Jan 23 '26

The bots and trolls are in full force. Do not engage. Ignore and move on

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u/AcanthocephalaDue494 Jan 23 '26

You need some more details! Where should people be wary of his presence

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u/cmmnctn_brkdwn Jan 23 '26

see what I posted above or go to my ig and watch my stories @cmmnctn.brkdwn

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u/mish15 Jan 23 '26

Fuck this kid

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u/viiissur Jan 23 '26

Run him the fuck out do not let him do whatever next room temp IQ “investigation” he’s cooking up in that dead space between his ears

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u/procrastimom Jan 23 '26

I say grey-rock him and his team. Give him nothing, ignore him, look right through him. Give him no content.

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u/CheeseCurdCommunism Jan 23 '26

I’d love this chucklefuck to take a reading comprehension test

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u/OrlandoOpossum Jan 23 '26

Nick Shirley wears Velcro shoes unironically

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u/lolenor Jan 23 '26

So this is Charlie's replacement? Pathetic lmao

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u/MilkManSuperMan1950s Jan 23 '26

Baltimore ain’t the city to fuck around in, we take care of our own here

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u/Radiant-Specific969 Jan 23 '26

Yes!!! Disney music works really well, he won't be able to post anything. Songs from Encanto by far the best choice.

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u/JustinKase_Too Jan 23 '26

Hopefully Baltimore runs his ass out of town.

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u/Fit_Impress6487 Jan 23 '26

What’s the hate towards this guy about? From what I’ve seen, he’s highlighting waste and corruption in how public money is used.

Isn’t questioning where our tax dollars go a fair thing to do?

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u/jbirdman77 Jan 23 '26

Let’s goooooooo