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Meet the 20-year-old pastor who wore the First Amendment to Baltimore

There are plenty of things people typically bring to protests: signs, water, cell phones and an occasional gas mask. But ShaiVaughn Crawley, a 20-year-old Baltimore native, showed up to Wednesday night’s protests against the mistrial of an officer accused in the death of Freddie Gray with the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution stapled to the lapel of his brown blazer. 

He wore it to remind people “we’re not really here just to be here.”