Dan Rodricks: The Baltimore squeegee tragedy is that we didn’t act sooner COMMENTARY

In a marble-lined courtroom in the grand old courthouse on North Calvert Street, a Baltimore Circuit Court jury hears a story that makes the list of the most tragic in the city’s modern history.It’s about a middle-aged man — a husband, father of three, an engineer with a degree from the city’s most prestigious university — shot to death after swinging a baseball bat at a group of young squeegee workers last summer.