Contraceptive Equity Act makes birth control and vasectomies free statewide. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, the moderate Republican who has come out strongly in criticism of GOP front-runner Donald Trump and the emergence of his party’s extremists in the mainstream, signed into law a bill this week that is being hailed …
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A man dressed in a panda costume already being dubbed by the media as the “Baltimore Panda Bomber” walked into Baltimore television station WBFF-TV Thursday, claiming he had a bomb and would detonate it in the station if the video on his flash drive wasn’t played on air. As first …
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Just after 4 PM yesterday a 14-year-old boy who did not pose a real threat to anyone was shot by a police officer in East Baltimore. It was the one year anniversary of Freddie Gray’s funeral, the event two weeks after Gray’s death from spinal injuries in the care of police …
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Baltimore Officer avoids felony child abuse charges for assaulting a teenager A Baltimore police officer who was caught on a viral video slapping and kicking a teenager and was then subsequently charged with second-degree felony child abuse, second-degree assault, and misconduct in office has avoided the felony child abuse charges. The original …
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Well known activist and artist Kwame Rose was found guilty Tuesday of failing to obey an order from law enforcement while protesting the December mistrial of a Baltimore police officer charged with negligence following the death of Freddie Gray. His attorneys have promised to fight this verdict through appeal. Rose, …
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The two officers who appeared in a viral video last week have been arrested and each released on $50,000 bond for criminal and police misconduct charges. The video depicts one Baltimore school police officer Saverna Bias looking on as officer Anthony Spence curses, hits and kicks a sixteen-year-old student at …
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Two school officers and Baltimore Schools Police Chief Marshall Goodwin were put on administrative leave Wednesday as the Baltimore Police Department began investigating a deeply-troubling video of an officer slapping, kicking, and cursing a teenager which is going viral around the country. CBS Baltimore WJZ first brought the video to the …
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Well, if it feels like we’ve written this story before, it’s because practically every week it takes on a different iteration. Previously, it was high school students in Phoenix taking a senior photo with a racial slur, and today its a white Maryland high school student making a video criticizing …
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As President Barack Obama is set to become the first sitting US President to visit a mosque during his presidency, at least one of his adversaries is not impressed. Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, who recently endorsed Donald Trump for the presidency, suggested Sunday that Obama’s motives were so …
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Accusations are surfacing that officers Duane Williams Jr., Bijay Ranabhat, and Lonnie White Jr. assaulted a juvenile at Sinai hospital in Baltimore a year ago. All have been suspended while Williams was the only official taken off the job without pay. Indictments were issued to two of the officers Wednesday …
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We’ve consistently seen our criminal justice system behave much more benevolently when the defendants are law enforcement officers: Are the Freddie Gray trials just the latest example? Via Slate: Jury selection in the trial of Officer Caesar Goodson, who drove the van in which Freddie Gray was allegedly killed, lasted …
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There is no precedent for the ruling of Baltimore circuit court judge Barry Williams. The judge will allow William Porter, who currently is waiting for a new trial after his own ended in a mistrial, to take the stand against the van driver Caesar Goodson in his second degree murder …
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“Baltimore is in the news again, not just for the killing of Black men by the police, but also for emerging as a center of the national eviction crisis. A report by the Public Justice Center, a civil legal aid organization, sounds the alarm on the problem of evictions, which …
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“Baltimore County police said they plan to review the arrest of a 19-year-old man outside a popular bar in Towson after a video showed officers taking him to the ground and at least one appearing to punch him several times in the face. Police said Zachary C. Blumenstein of Chevy …
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BREAKING: Judge declares mistrial in case of officer charged in Freddie Gray case Full Story – Washington Post
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