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Showing posts with label MD Baltimore city crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MD Baltimore city crime. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

U.S. Department of Justice investigation of the Baltimore City Police Department

U.S. Department of Justice investigation of the Baltimore City Police Department


August 9, 2016 - Document: U.S. Department of Justice investigation of the Baltimore City Police Department: “The full report of the Justice Department's investigation into Baltimore police, which found the department routinely violated the constitutional rights of residents.” Courtesy of the Baltimore Sun http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-document-u-s-department-of-justice-investigation-of-the-baltimore-city-police-department-20160809-htmlstory.html


Related – see also: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-doj-report-whats-next-20160810-story.html DOJ report starts years of costly reform efforts in Baltimore

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Friday, September 11, 2015

Yvonne Wenger, Baltimore Sun reports: Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says she won't seek re-election


Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says she won't seek re-election


By Yvonne Wenger, The Baltimore Sun

Elections Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Freddie Gray Baltimore Riots

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will not seek re-election in 2016.

Freddie Gray trials likely to cost the city millions

Catherine Pugh, Carl Stokes enter Baltimore mayor's race

Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has decided that she will not seek re-election to the office. (Baltimore Sun)

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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, beleaguered by the death of Freddie Gray and the protests and rioting that followed, announced Friday she won’t seek re-election.

She said she is stepping out of the race to focus on "work to move our city forward," and not out of any concern she might not win the race against a growing field of challengers.

"It was a very difficult decision, but I knew I needed to spend time, the remaining 15 months of my term, focused on the city's future and not my own," she said at a news conference at City Hall.

Rawlings-Blake, 45, has no plans to seek another office. She briefed her Cabinet and staff on the decision this morning.

She spent recent months ramping up her campaign by building a field organization in the city, hosting fundraisers and courting voters with events such as "Mondays with the Mayor" at local bars and restaurants. But sources familiar with her decision said she felt it would be inappropriate to ask donors for money while the city copes with the aftermath of the April riots.

City leaders and police have meanwhile been readying for the possibility or more unrest. The first trial in the Gray case is scheduled for Oct. 13, though that date could change, and a judge ruled Thursday the cases would move forward in Baltimore courts. The officers involved face charges ranging from second-degree murder to assault and misconduct in office.

The mayor's decision also comes days after her administration agreed to pay Gray's family $6.4 million in a settlement that accepted all civil liability in his death but did not acknowledge any wrongdoing by police.

The mayor abandons her re-election campaign as the field of Democratic challengers in the April primary grows, including former Mayor Sheila Dixon, state Sen. Catherine Pugh and City Councilman Carl Stokes.


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Monday, July 13, 2015

Baltimore Crime Beat May 6 - July 12, 2015: About 130 Baltimore Police officers injured during Baltimore riots


Baltimore Crime Beat May 6 - July 12, 2015: About 130 Baltimore Police officers injured during Baltimore riots 

Old Harley Davidson police motorcycle and mobile booking center.



Actually I do not know the date of the picture. I saw it on Pinterest and it really captured my imagination. I am working on a column about the early history of the Maryland State Police - and in particular, the early line of duty deaths. One of which occurred in Westminster at the intersection of Washington Road and Colonial Avenue. Officer Clinton R. Rhodes was killed in a motorcycle mishap in January 28, 1931.

I also found this:

BALTIMORE CRIME BEAT July 12, 2015

About 130 officers injured during Baltimore riots released from hospital

By Staff Reports - The Baltimore Sun MAY 6, 2015, 7:00 AM
 
All police officers injured during last week's protests and riots have been released from the hospital, Baltimore police said….

About 130 officers were hurt in protest­related injuries, said police spokesman Det. Jeremy Silbert…

Gov. Larry Hogan visited injured officers … at Shock Trauma last week


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BALTIMORE CRIME BEAT July 12, 2015


Kevin Rector and Natalie Sherman

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, law enforcement officials and prosecutors have created an around-the-clock "war room" to address the spike in violent crime that has racked Baltimore since the death of Freddie Gray, they said Sunday.

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Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Kevin Rector - The Baltimore Sun: Baltimore prosecutor asked police to target area where Freddie Gray was arrested

Baltimore prosecutor asked police to target area where Freddie Gray was arrested

Defense lawyers for police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody have called for Marilyn Mosby to step down as prosecutor, citing an email calling for increased police activity.

By Kevin Rector The Baltimore Sun

Marilyn Mosby asked police to target corner where Freddie Gray ran.



About three weeks before Freddie Gray was chased from a West Baltimore corner by three Baltimore police officers — the start of a fatal encounter — the office of prosecutor Marilyn Mosby asked police to target the intersection with "enhanced" drug enforcement efforts, court documents show.

"State's Attorney Mosby asked me to look into community concerns regarding drug dealing in the area of North Ave and Mount St," Joshua Rosenblatt, division chief of Mosby's Crime Strategies Unit, wrote in a March 17 email to a Western District police commander.

The email was disclosed for the first time Tuesday in a motion filed in Baltimore Circuit Court by defense attorneys for the six officers being prosecuted in Gray's arrest and death. The attorneys said Mosby's involvement in the police initiative means that she should be removed from the case.

"Mrs. Mosby herself is now an integral part of the story and as such is a central witness," the defense attorneys argued. "This is a case where the witness and the prosecutor are one and the same."

Mosby, through spokeswoman Rochelle Ritchie, said, "Consistent with our prosecutorial obligations, we will litigate this case in the courtroom and not in the media." Mosby's office received the motion Tuesday afternoon, Ritchie said… Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-ci-mosby-email-20150609-story.html?track=rss#page=1
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Monday, May 04, 2015

A new digest of articles in the Baltimore Sun on the recent unrest and other related events

A new digest of articles in the Baltimore Sun on the recent unrest and other related events

Just trying to catch-up after being away for a while.... May 4, 2015 at 6 a.m.... 




After more than a week of angry protests over the death of Freddie Gray, marred at times by violence and rioting, hundreds rejoiced and sang outside City Hall on Sunday.

Mary Jackson was watching CNN when the rioting broke out in West Baltimore last Monday, and she couldn't take her eyes off the screen.

Dr. Ben Carson, the celebrated pediatric neurosurgeon who spent his career at Johns Hopkins Hospital before becoming a darling of conservative voters, said Sunday he will seek the Republican nomination for president next year.

A message of hope was delivered by Baltimore elected officials and clergy at Southern Baptist Church Sunday afternoon, nearly a week after the Mary Harvin Transformation Center (a project of the church) and senior apartments were destroyed by a fire nearby during riots last Monday.

Mark Dantzler arrived home from a party early Sunday morning to find his neighborhood blocked off and his street saturated with blue police lights.
Baltimore began to move beyond unrest Sunday when Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake lifted a citywide curfew, the Maryland National Guard began withdrawing its forces and shoppers returned to Mondawmin Mall, which had been shuttered after looting.

Baltimore could be set to host a blockbuster sequel with Kentucky Derby champion American Pharoah and top rivals Firing Line and Dortmund all pointed toward the May 16 Preakness.

Pushing back against criticism of his own policing strategies in Baltimore, former Gov. Martin O'Malley said the tensions that erupted into riots last week would be central to his presidential campaign if he decides to run.

Baltimore City officials estimate the 39 hours an employee spent watching pornography on the job during a two-week period equated to about $1,166 in salary. They fired him in January after monitoring and documenting the employee's porn viewing.

One man is dead after two separate overnight shootings Saturday, Baltimore police said.

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings said Sunday he was "comfortable" with State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby's decision to charge six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray.

Gov. Larry Hogan attended mass at a Catholic church in the Sandtown-Winchester community Sunday, part of a "day of prayer and peace" he had declared in the wake of a tense week that saw looting and violence following the death of Freddie Gray.

As the 10 p.m. curfew went into effect Saturday night, police detained one man at Pennsylvania and North avenues, the site of a riot and looting earlier this week. The handcuffed man had been pepper-sprayed and police were pouring water into the man's eyes to try to ease the effects of the spray....

A group of about 50 mostly white protesters stood on a corner in Hampden on Saturday just as the citywide 10 p.m. curfew went into effect because, they said, they knew they'd be treated differently than black protesters in poorer parts of the city.

In a fourth-floor conference room at Baltimore police headquarters, two training officers in blue T-shirts and blue pants lowered themselves onto the carpeted floor to demonstrate the leg hold officers used to restrain Freddie Gray the day he was arrested — and sustained a fatal spine injury.

It was part dance party, and part angry cry for justice.

James Henderson grabbed his daughter Kya's tiny hand and reminded his youngest, Kendall, to hold on to him as the family joined a crowd of about 100 Saturday on a march to City Hall.

Unrest in Baltimore put on display the widely different leadership styles that Gov. Larry Hogan and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake brought to a crisis that could come to define their administrations.

As more than a dozen pharmacies remained closed after fires and looting in Baltimore, city health officials on Saturday urged people who can't get their medicines to call 311 for help.

After riots overtook West Baltimore on Monday, a hashtag began to appear on Twitter and other social media — #BALTIMORELOOTCREW — linking together posts that depicted pilfered prescription drugs and demolished store shelves.

Tonight's Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao bout may be the fight of the century, but for some Baltimore bar and club owners, it's just another way the city's ongoing curfew is costing them and their employees money.

As arson investigators from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives dug through the charred rubble of a West Baltimore pawn shop Saturday, the bureau put out a call for citizen-captured videos of fires that erupted during Monday's riots. Anyone with fire videos can upload...

Baltimore City's top prosecutor, State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby, charged all six officers who had been suspended in connection with Freddie Gray's death. The highest charge, second-degree depraved heart murder, went to the driver of the van.

Baltimore police arrested at least 53 people during peaceful protests Friday, the day charges were brought against the six officers involved in the arrest of Freddie Gray.

A popular fundraising website has disallowed contributions for the Baltimore officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray.

The obstacles the Orioles have faced through the first four weeks of the season – several untimely injuries, an inconsistent pitching staff and this week's forced scheduling twist – pales in comparison to what has been going on in Baltimore over the past seven days.


Two men were arrested amid the ongoing unrest in Baltimore on Tuesday night after stealing a Maryland Transit Administration mobility van that police then tracked through GPS, a MTA spokesman confirmed.

A 49-year-old Highlandtown corner store employee was fatally shot at his business on Friday morning, one of two shootings reported in Southeast Baltimore.

Amid a cacophony of people shouting and car horns honking, Baltimoreans pulled each other into close hugs and joyful handshakes Friday as word spread that State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby was charging six police officers involved in the arrest of Freddie Gray.


All six police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray were released from the Central Booking and Intake Center downtown Friday night after posting bail, court records show.
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Friday, May 01, 2015

Baltimore Mayor Treads Fine Line in Divided City By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and NIKITA STEWART

Baltimore Mayor Treads Fine Line in Divided City

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and NIKITA STEWART

APRIL 29, 2015


BALTIMORE. — With buildings ablaze and looters rampaging through city streets, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake faced television cameras Monday night and sternly denounced the rioters as “thugs.” The next day, with some black residents in an uproar over a word they call racially charged, she walked it back.

“There are no thugs in Baltimore,” the mayor, who is African-American, said at a church, where she met with members of the clergy. “Sometimes, my own little anger translator gets the best of me.”

The episode demonstrates the fine line Ms. Rawlings-Blake, 45, walks as she tries to lead this majority black city out of what she calls “one of our darkest days.” It is also a vivid reminder that the presence of a black mayor (and black police commissioner) does not guarantee a bond or rapport with poor black residents that might help calm a city going through the kind of trauma facing Baltimore.


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Any mayor would surely face challenges under such circumstances. But for Ms. Rawlings-Blake the challenges are especially acute. She must try to bring together two Baltimores, neither of which she is entirely a part of: the gentrified Baltimore of the Inner Harbor and Camden Yards and the frustrated, low-income black Baltimore, with its boarded-up rowhouses.


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Monday, December 15, 2014

A POLICE OFFICERS CHRISTMAS

We give thanks to those who are serving our country. We Pray and ask the Lord for the protection of our military personnel, law enforcement, firefighters and EMS personnel and their families.

We especially pray at this time our military, the CIA and members of the intelligence community who risk their lives for our safety and quality of life. 

We pray for the quick recovery of Andrew Groman, a three-year veteran of the Baltimore City Police Dept. that was shot last night in the line of duty.


Labels: #Baltimore_Police, #Law_Order #Police_safety, #Police, #Military, #Military_Chaplain, #Chaplain, #Firefighter_Chaplain, #EMS_Chaplain



A POLICE OFFICERS CHRISTMAS

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the streets,
not a person was stirring, 'cept an officer on the beat.
As he quietly patrolled the town with great care,
children and parents slept peacefully there.

The officer was clad in his blues and his vest,
gun on his hip, always looking his best.
He'd just pulled aside for a quick bite to eat,
When all of a sudden, out on the street,

A bright light appeared from out of nowhere,
He shielded his eyes from the brilliant glare.
'Twas an angel of the Lord at the squad's rear,
He smiled and spoke, "Dear Officer, don't fear."

"I've been sent by God with a message for you
who faithfully serve while wearing the blue.
He wants you to know He loves you all,
He's pleased with the way you've answered His call.

"To protect and serve others, so selfless you've been,
Your bravery and kindness have known no end.
Even in tragedy, when nights became long,
You've helped countless strangers by being strong.

"God sees your heart, the joy and the pain,
He knows the profession can often bring strain.
So he sent me here to let you know,
That as you patrol, He goes where you go.

"As you protect others, your Father protects you,
His angels go with you, His Spirit does, too.
No bullet too fast, no bad guy too strong,
I'm sent to make sure that your life will be long.

"So fear not the night, and fear not the day,
fear not the threats that might come your way.
I'm sent to accompany you on your beat,
There's not one moment you're alone on the street."

The officer sat stunned by the love of His God,
He bowed his head, with a tear gave a nod.
As the officer said thank you, the angel took flight,
"God's got your back, carry on, and goodnight."

Retrieved December 15, 2014


Author unknown – if you are the author of this poem, let me know because it is a great Christmas poem and I would love to give you credit. Just saying… 

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10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,[a] against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints— Ephesians 6: 10-18

Ephesians 6:10-18 New King James Version (NKJV.) The Whole Armor of God

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Monday, March 17, 2014

The man suspected of shooting a Baltimore City police officer on Friday turned himself in to police on Sunday evening - baltimoresun.com

The man suspected of shooting a Baltimore City police officer on Friday turned himself in to police on Sunday evening - baltimoresun.com

"Man accused of shooting Baltimore City officer turns himself into police 

 By Colin Campbell and Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun
7:42 a.m. EDT, March 17, 2014 

 The man Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts termed "Public Enemy No. 1" Sunday afternoon turned himself in at police headquarters less than an hour later, ending a two-day manhunt following the Friday night shooting of a well-liked sergeant.

Gregg Thomas, 34, was arrested Sunday evening in the shooting of off-duty Sgt. Keith Mcneill, after police spent the weekend serving six search warrants and fielding tips from the public.

Thomas was being held without bail at the Baltimore City Detention Center after seeing a court commissioner Monday morning."


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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

John Hawkins: 10 Quotes That Tell You How Bad The Occupy Wall Street Movement Has Gotten

10 Quotes That Tell You How Bad The Occupy Wall Street Movement Has Gotten

John Hawkins is a professional blogger who runs Right Wing News


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The mainstream media spent Obama's entire first term falsely condemning the Tea Party as a potentially violent hate-filled mob. Then, a violent hate-filled mob actually showed up and the MSM embraced it.

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9) To date there have been at least four reported rapes and at least one attempted rape at these “occupy” encampments. Two of the victims were at the main Wall Street encampment and say they were urged not to report the attacks to the authorities.

Rapes also reportedly occurred at encampments in Dallas and Cleveland.

Now a fourth rape victim reports being raped at the Occupy Baltimore encampment. The victim say that other members of the encampment are protecting the perpetrator to avoid bad publicity for the movement. A reporter also finds masked thugs and evidence of heroin use at the Occupy Baltimore squatter camp. A leader for Occupy Baltimore laughs while admitting that the group urges it’s followers to conceal information about crimes committed at the encampment.

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[20111107 Hawkins 10 Quotes That Tell You How Bad OWS Movement]


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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Adam Bednar North Baltimore Patch: Male Shot in Harwood


North Baltimore PatchBREAKING NEWS
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Male Shot in Harwood
Police are investigating a shooting near Whitridge Avenue and Barclay Street.
By Adam Bednar | Jul 14, 2011
A male was shot in the back near Whitridge Avenue and Barclay Street in Harwood on Thursday, according to Baltimore City police. A neighbor said she heard five shots and that a male she described as … Read More

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