Officials predict the costs of reforming the Baltimore Police Department department will be steep. “While we understand Baltimore doesn’t have a blank check, in order for those reforms to happen there has to be a commitment to the dollars,” said Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on Wednesday. Her remarks came after the U.S. Justice Department announced the […]
According to an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Baltimore Police Department has engaged in a multi-year pattern of making unconstitutional stops, searches and seizures of residents and using disparate enforcement strategies that targeted African-Americans. In a copy of the report summarizing the Justice Department’s findings, which was originally obtained by The New […]
Baltimore City Police Commissioner Kevin Davis and State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby together on Monday praised a pair of city police officers who testified against fellow officer Wesley Cagle. Cagle was found guilty of first-degree assault last week after prosecutors say he shot Michael Johansen in the groin following a burglary in December 2014. Cagle had been […]
Charges against the three remaining officers in the Freddie Gray case have been dropped...
UPDATE: Thursday, September 10, 2015 11:10 AM EST: A judge has ruled that trials for the six officers involved in Freddie Gray’s arrest and death…
Arrested at 17, Carlos Montero has been in Riker’s Island for 7 years without being convicted http://t.co/aMP8eaWNs0 via @dailykos — JoeInWV (@wvjoe911) June 16, 2015…
The trial of the man charged with fatally shooting Renisha McBride began this week. Theodore Wafer‘s lawyer has tried entering evidence into the proceedings to defame McBride’s…
Saturday, a Florida jury found Michael Dunn guilty of three counts of attempted murder and another count stemming from his shooting into a car full of…
John Philips, the lawyer for the family of Jordan Davis, joined Roland Martin Friday to discuss the trial of Michael Dunn, Jordan killer, and the…
