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VIDEO: Man shouts ‘Heil Hitler’ during ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ show in Baltimore

BALTIMORE (AP) — An audience member says a man interrupted a performance of “Fiddler on the Roof” in Baltimore with a pro-Nazi and pro-Trump salute. Rich Scherr is a contributing sportswriter for The Baltimore Sun. He told the newspaper that a man seated in the balcony of the Hippodrome Theatre on Wednesday night began shouting “Heil Hitler, Heil Trump” during intermission. Scherr says people started running and he was “waiting to hear a gunshot.” But the man was escorted out and the show continued. Scherr uploaded video of the aftermath showing the audience reaction.

“Fiddler on the Roof” is based on a Yiddish story and tells the story of a Jewish family persecuted in tsarist Russia. The newspaper couldn’t reach a spokesman for the Hippodrome, and the report didn’t have comment from police. ___ Information from: The Baltimore Sun, http://www.baltimoresun.com

Hogan gives 34 posthumous pardons for racial lynching victims

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan issued posthumous pardons for 34 male victims of racial lynchings in the state that occurred between 1854 and 1933, saying the killings "violated fundamental rights to due process and equal protection of law." Hogan announced the pardons at an event in Towson, Maryland, on Saturday, held in honor of Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old Black boy lynched by a white mob in Baltimore nearly 136 years ago.
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