The 12 O’Clock Boys, an infamous group of Baltimoreans who ride dirt bikes and four wheelers throughout the city, stopped by the protests at North and Pennsylvania Avenues today and treated the crowd to several sick wheelies. The anchors narrating the telecast on WBAL were not amused.

“Here would be my suggestion, now we have identified that they are out there, I would suggest that we not give them any more attention because they thrive on it,” anchor Stan Stovall says in the second video below. “Bikers will see this and they’re going to want to join them. ‘Hey we can get on TV too.’ Maybe we should stop focusing on them and start paying attention to the positives.”

I don’t know. For a town that’s gone through as much as Baltimore has in the past 24 hours, a set of apparently crowd-awing tricks from a group representing a segment of the city’s unique culture is probably a nice morale booster.

[There was a video here]

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