Small groups of Morgan State University and Baltimore City Community College students marched on the edges of campus early Monday afternoon carrying signs in protest of the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
The demonstrations followed student protests last Tuesday that had shut down multiple intersections around Morgan for hours. No streets were blocked Monday as demonstrators kept to sidewalks.
Several Baltimore police and Morgan State police officers stood at intersections such as Hillen Road and Cold Spring Lane while Baltimore police's FoxTrot helicopter hovered overhead in the Hillen neighborhood. At interesections near BCCC, several police officers stood at street corners while a group of uniformed officers assembled in the parking lot of a nearby 7-Eleven.
Officers vastly outnumbered demonstrators at both campuses.
Police had prepared for a large-scale student walkout at 1:01 p.m., scheduled at the same time Brown had been shot dead by a Ferguson police officer on Aug. 9. The event was organized as a "Hands Up Walk Out" protest at colleges and universities across the nation, according to news reports and social media posts.
Baltimore police had prohibited parking on Argonne Drive along Morgan's campus to prepare for any demonstrations while the department's Twitter account warned motorists in the nearby Hillen neighborhood and also in the 2900 block of Liberty Heights Ave. near BCCC that demonstrators could disrupt traffic during protests. But those warnings were quickly rescinded when the demonstrators carrying signs such as "Ferguson to Baltimore, Not 1 More" kept to sidewalks.
At about 3:20 p.m., Baltimore police tweeted that "the demonstration at Cold Spring and Hillen has disbanded. No traffic was impacted."
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