Colin Flaherty: White Flight Ethnic Cleansing in Baltimore Families Uprooted Fleeing Black Violence

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BALTIMORE (WBFF) – Courtney and Jon Coles decided to leave Baltimore earlier this year and move to Lancaster, Pennsylvania after a day in January they say they will never forget.

“We stopped at the lights on Light and E Lombard and the squeegee boys came up and we told them no,” said Jon Coles. “They hit the window on the car and they hit the car and then I got out and asked them to wait in the car.”

Jon says he got out of the car to protect his three children inside, and pulled out pepper spray which didn’t work.

He says the squeegee kids came toward him.

“They started throwing squeegees and stuff at me. They hit me in the back of the head with a squeegee and banged the car more after I got in, and it broke off and hit my wife in the lip and busted her lip open. They took off running after that,” he said.

The family says they filed a police report and police confirmed they were investigating after the incident in January.

The Coles say they even sat down with then Mayor Catherine Pugh, but in the end after 26 years in the city Jon said he felt it best to uproot his family and leave.

“After that happened I started seeing more incidents with them. It was just getting bad downtown. They were everywhere,” he said. “I didn’t want to work in the city anymore. That was one of the reasons why. The homicide rate is going up the violence is getting worse and that’s just topping it off.”

The Coles are not alone.