A watershed moment as the death of a driver on a downtown street brings Baltimore s long-running squeegee worker debate to a head Baltimore Sun
For whatever reason, it all came to a head on Thursday afternoon at one of Baltimore s most inviting intersections: Go one way to the city s showpiece harbor, the other to its bandbox of a baseball park. Head north to downtown, or south to the redbrick, rowhouse-scaled charm of Federal Hill.
But beneath the surface of these postcard vistas, decades of a slow-burning anger in the city found its ignition on Conway and Light streets. A driver got out of his car with a bat to confront a group of squeegee workers, one of who police said fatally shot him and fled the scene.