Frustrated Baltimore city councilmembers got few answers during a Thursday night hearing as to why broken facilities and a toxic culture of bullying by management have been allowed to continue at the Department of Public Works for so long.
Ronald Silver II, 36, died of heat exhaustion while collecting trash on August 2nd, a day when the heat index reached 105 degrees. His mother Faith Johnson, barely held back tears as she remembered her son “I wake up every day still at 4:30 in the morning, expecting him to greet me, as he did every morning before he went to work picking up trash to provide for his family. He was our provider and our protector, and he is gone,” she said.
Silver had allegedly complained of pain for hours before he died.
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