Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Representatives of the neighborhood watch group doesn't know how the Spanish-speaking woman got the number for the mostly Orthodox Jewish group's emergency hotline—thousands of miles away.
It was 12:01 a.m. Tuesday when Shomrim of Baltimore neighborhood watch group received a call from a frantic woman, who was locked with two children in a storage unit—far away in San Francisco. "We don't know how she got our number," said Ron Rosenbluth, Shomrim vice president, noting that she may have misdialed one number when calling for help, and ended up getting Shomrim's hotline number: 410-358-9999. But, the group that patrols the neighborhoods and helps find missing people in the northwest Baltimore, Upper Park Heights, Pikesville and Greenspring areas, helped coordinate the search effort from thousands of miles away. They contacted the San Francisco Police Department, spoke with the mostly Spanish-speaking woman to get information …
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Friday, August 3, 2012
The president of the NAACP's Baltimore chapter told Patch that the Jewish neighborhood watch group should use better judgment.
The president of NAACP's Baltimore chapter on Friday called Shomrim of Baltimore's Facebook page "disgusting" and said its depiction of black people displays a "prejudice" that she believes was also seen during a criminal trial this summer involving a member of the Jewish neighborhood watch group. However, a Shomrim leader said that the group's Facebook postings are only meant to help police solve crimes. On Tuesday Shomrim published a photo of a young, black male riding a bicycle in Upper Park Heights while towing another, riderless bike beside him. It was posted without an explanation as to why it was posted between Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. Some of Shomrim's Facebook readers' comments joked or implied that the male had stolen the …
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Within the same hour that Pikesville Patch published an article about a controversial photo posted on Shomrim's Facebook page, the group posted an explanation about why the picture was posted.
The Shomrim of Baltimore neighborhood watch group published an explanation on Thursday about why it has been featuring a photo on its Facebook page since Tuesday that shows a black male riding a bike and towing another. The photo garned several critical comments on Facebook that the picture implied that the man was stealing the bike—a racially charged accusation by a group that recently was the center of an incident that heightened tensions between Jews and blacks in Northwest Baltimore. The explanation on the group's Facebook page—whose stated mission is to "gather intelligence on security and safety issues affecting our community"—said the photo is not meant to indicate the man is involved in wrongdoing. "As always all photos are taken …
Photo of an African American male riding a bike, with another in tow, was posted on the site of the Shomrim of Baltimore's Facebook page. Most commentors were critical of the group's posting of the photo for implying he is stealing the bike.
The Jewish neighborhood watch group at the center of an incident that had inflamed black-Jewish tensions in Northwest Baltimore posted a photo of an African American man this week on its Facebook page that led many commenters to criticize the picture's implication of wrongdoing. The photo, posted on Shomrim of Baltimore's publicly-accessible Facebook page, is simple enough: it shows a young, black male riding a bicycle and towing along another, riderless bike. The photo—posted without a caption, credit or explanation (see clarification below)—drew nearly 20 comments, some of which implied the unidentified black youth was a thief. The photo, like most on the page, was posted by someone with administrative privileges to the site—and not by a…
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Baltimore Circuit Judge Pamela White sentenced the former member of Shomrim of Baltimore to probation, with the condition that he research and write about Baltimore City's diverse neighborhoods and special interest groups.
A Baltimore judge on Wednesday sentenced a Jewish former neighborhood watch member to three years of probation for assaulting and illegally detaining a black teenager in the fall of 2010. But the judge also tacked on an unusual form of punishment for Eliyahu Werdesheim: homework. Werdesheim, 24, must read, research and write about Baltimore City's special interest groups and the strengths and weaknesses of its neighborhoods. "I'm not contemplating any incarceration," Baltimore City Circuit Judge Pamela White said Wednesday afternoon as she declared her sentence. "You need to broaden your sense of community." White advised Werdesheim that he could find the publications he needed for his research at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, where she …
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Baltimore Circuit Judge Pamela White gave her verdict Thursday afternoon, convicting Eliyahu Werdesheim of false imprisonment and second degree assault, but clearing his brother Avi Werdesheim of all charges.
Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Pamela White is handing down her verdict in the bench trial for Eliyahu and Avi Werdesheim.
UPDATE (3:58 p.m.)—Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Pamela White is deciding the fate of Eliyahu and Avi Werdesheim, according to a CBS News report. Eliyahu and Avi Werdesheim each are charged with false imprisonment and second-degree assault of a 15-year-old African American teen in November 2010. The confrontation occurred at the intersection of Labyrinth and Fallstaff roads. The trial ended Wednesday after a week of testimony, mainly from witnesses for the state. Get daily and breaking news email updates from Pikesville Patch by signing up for newsletters here, and from North Baltimore Patch by signing up here. Assistant State's Attorney Kevin Wiggins maintains it was Avi Werdesheim who struck Corey Ausby on the head with a radio, …
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Medical student Avi Werdesheim, who is on trial for assaulting a teen, assisted a Baltimore Sun reporter.
Avi Werdesheim, a medical student on trial for assault in Baltimore City, assisted a woman who had fainted in the courtroom on Tuesday, according to a report in the Baltimore Sun. Werdesheim, a medical student at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, checked Sun reporter Tricia Bishop's vital signs before she was transported to a local hospital, the report states. Bishop was treated and released. Werdesheim and his brother, Eli, residents of Cheswolde, are on trial for a Nov. 19, 2010 incident, in which the brothers allegedly followed and beat Corey Ausby, then 15, in Upper Park Heights. Get daily and breaking news email updates from Pikesville Patch by signing up for newsletters here, and from North Baltimore Patch by signing up here…
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
"In my heart I didn't want to testify," 16-year-old Corey Ausby, a witness for the state, and the alleged victim in the state's case against two Upper Park Heights brothers, said in court Wednesday.
The 16-year-old alleged victim of a beating involving two members of a Jewish neighborhood watch group declined to testify against his alleged attackers in court. He also said he didn't want to press charges. "I feel in the heart I did wrong,” Corey Ausby said, frequently pausing between unfinished sentences. “At the same time I didn't mean to call the police on them (referring to the Werdesheims)," he said Wednesday after Baltimore City Circuit Judge Pamela White ordered him to testify. Get daily and breaking news email updates from Pikesville Patch by signing up for newsletters here. Prosecutors say Eliyahu Werdesheim, now 24, who at the time was a member of the neighborhood watch group Shomrim, and his brother, Avi Werdesheim, now 21, …
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
A lawsuit claims that the brothers, from Northwest Baltimore's Cheswolde neighborhood, allegedly beat a teenager while on patrol in November 2010, are on trial tomorrow in Baltimore City.
The racially-charged trial for two Northwest Baltimore brothers Eliyahu and Avi Werdesheim, accused of false imprisonment and second-degree assault of a 15-year-old African American teen in November 2010, is set to begin Tuesday, according to court records. During a hearing Monday in Baltimore, the Werdesheim's attorney, Andrew Alperstein, asked the judge to postpone the trial. He said it might reignite passions created by the recent Trayvon Martin case in Florida, according to a report in the Baltimore Sun. Get daily and breaking news email updates from Pikesville Patch by signing up for newsletters here. Recently, numerous media outlets have drawn comparisons between the Florida incident in which a neighborhood patrolman George Zimmerman…
MarkSindone
2:02 am on Wednesday, April 17, 2013
I wonder how the woman could have misdialed the neighbourhood watch group’s hotline. It is obviously more complicated than the 911 hotline. Perhaps it was on speed dial? Nonetheless, it is definitely beyond the call of duty for the members to continue helping the woman. Hopefully after this incident, the woman and her two children will be more careful about getting locked in a storage unit. I can… more ›