Michael Moore takes to Twitter with Baltimore demands

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Activist filmmaker Michael Moore is taking to Twitter again to voice his outrage against the government and police in light of the recent protests and riots in Baltimore.

According to Fox News, Moore called for police to be disarmed and the release of all African-Americans jailed for nonviolent offenses, blaming "a modern day slave system" for the jailing of African-Americans and poor white Americans.

Read what he posted:

Of course his tweets stirred up controversy on social media.

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