BALTIMORE (AP) — A proposed plan to overhaul Baltimore’s troubled police force faces public scrutiny Thursday despite the Department of Justice’s efforts to delay the hearing. A judge on Wednesday denied an attempt to delay the public airing, calling the request by President Donald Trump’s administration a “burden and inconvenience.” The Justice Department asked for […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — Authorities in Baltimore are investigating after a body was found in a van days after police had it towed to a city-owned impound lot. Police say an employee at Baltimore City’s Impound Lot discovered an unidentified man’s body Tuesday morning inside the 2001 Chevy Astro van. Det. Jeremy Silbert says there didn’t […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Thursday stepped up the pressure on Baltimore officials to reach a deal with the federal government to overhaul the city’s police practices, saying “the ball is in the city’s court” to conclude negotiations soon. Lynch, who took office in April 2015 as riots roiled Baltimore after the […]
A Baltimore City school tutor faces felony charges for slamming a second-grader into a wall on Monday, WBAL-TV reports. Travon Grayson, 7, was hospitalized with facial injuries that will require surgery, several missing teeth and multiple bruises, his mother, Lateekqua Jackson told the news outlet. Travon told his parents that the tutor, Timothy Korr, “threw” […]
Charles Barkley may be a basketball icon and popular sports commentator, but his views on race have led many in the Black community to cast him a side-eye. But TNT thought his controversial views would make for compelling TV and signed him up for a six-part TV series on race called The Race Card, airing […]
The unnamed Harlem Park Elementary School instructor was given the pink slip for using inflammatory language when trying to get control of her class.
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore school bus driver who died along with five others in a collision with a commuter bus was found at fault in three traffic-related cases in the last eight years, according to civil and criminal court records and an attorney interviewed by The Associated Press on Wednesday. Glenn R. Chappell, 67, […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s police commissioner is criticizing the decision of three officers charged but not convicted in the death of Freddie Gray to attend a conservative group’s gala where they were honored for their service. WBAL-TV reports Commissioner Kevin Davis said Wednesday he doesn’t condone their appearance at the Media Research Center’s annual gala […]
MIDDLE RIVER, Md. (AP) — Baltimore County officials say a man who fought with police officers over the weekend has died at a hospital. Tawon Boyd, 21, was injured in the Sunday confrontation outside his home in Middle River and taken to the hospital, where he died Wednesday. Police officials said in a news release […]
Roland Martin talks to Baltimore State Attorney Marilyn Mosby about the recent department of justice report that exposed the systematic racism in the city’s police department. “It confirms not just what people in Baltimore experience, but people all over the country experience. It’s a problem. I come from five generations of police officers and what I understand is […]
A lawsuit accuses 13 St. Louis suburbs of extorting poor Black residents. Attorneys say they're operating debtor's prisons.
The Justice Department delivered a scathing report on the Baltimore Police Department. Yes, the same department that arrested Freddie Gray who ended shortly thereafter. The Justice Department states that there were systemic problems that plague the police department. Much like the Ferguson findings, the DOJ report alleges that for more than a decade the police […]
