COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — White police officers in a Washington, D.C., suburb have used racist slurs, circulated text messages expressing a desire to “reinstitute lynching” and put a black face and Afro wig on a training dummy, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. Civil rights groups sued Maryland’s Prince George’s County and its […]
Samir Ahmed tried to help someone and get arrested outside of his home.
The video of her racism went viral.
Topics of inequality and police brutality have been forced to the forefront of American dialogue. Because this is the digital age, everything is online and we’re seeing horrible acts of racism and violence every day. Years ago you would have heard of some of these stories, but you wouldn’t have seen the murder of innocent […]
Ben Jealous is running for Governor of Maryland! His race is different because it’s not “candidate versus candidate, it’s candidate versus incumbent.” This makes it different because the voters already know Larry Hogan. Reports have been saying that Jealous doesn’t have a shot at winning, but he says that’s not true. Jealous told Roland Martin on […]
CNN reports, a Maryland police officer has been charged with rape. Ryan Macklin, 29, was taken into custody Monday evening, after allegedly raping a woman he pulled over. Police said Macklin pulled the woman over at about 1 a.m. on Oct. 11. During the stop, wptv reports, Macklin forced the woman “to perform a sexual act” […]
It has been over a week since Terrence Woods has heard from his son, Terrence Woods Jr. Fox 5 reports Woods Jr, 26, allegedly went missing on October 5 while shooting a documentary with a production crew in the rugged, back-country of Idaho. The station reports that rescue crews spent days searching for Woods Jr. and […]
Mistreatment at a medical practice.
ABERDEEN, Md. (AP) — Three people were killed Thursday morning in a shooting at a Rite Aid distribution center in northeast Maryland, officials said. A law enforcement official with knowledge of the shooting stressed that the number of dead is based on preliminary information. The official wasn’t authorized to discuss details by name and spoke […]
A Maryland man was arrested after a gun, marijuana and $15,000 in cash were found in the car that he used to take his drivers test. According to WBALL-TV, Reginald Wooding Jr., 22, was next in line to take his drivers test when an examiner told a trooper she thought she smelled marijuana coming from the […]
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) — Flash floods struck a Maryland city on Sunday that had been wracked by similar devastation two years earlier, prompting emergency rescues as raging waters engulfed cars and rose above the first floor of some buildings, authorities said. News outlets showed local photos and video of the turbulent floodwaters cascading down […]
