A federal judge reopened a case last week challenging aspects of Baltimore’s pension system for police and firefighters that had been stayed for more than two years while state litigation was pending. The plaintiffs, active and retired Baltimore first responders ...

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The Greater Baltimore Committee urged Baltimore City Council President Jack Young and the council not to cut police resources as outlined in Mayor Catherine Pugh’s budget in a letter sent to Young last week. The letter from GBC President Donald ...

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A Baltimore man has filed suit against a city police officer who allegedly punched and tackled him in an altercation that was captured on video in February. Antonio Moore is seeking a combined $6 million in compensatory and punitive damages ...

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Baltimore police Officer William G. Porter was not present when Freddie Gray was arrested in April but might become the linchpin of the criminal trials of officers charged in connection with Gray’s death.

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Attorneys for three of the police officers charged in connection with the death of Freddie Gray in April are seeking to have reckless endangerment charges dismissed because they claim failing to seatbelt a prisoner alone does not constitute a crime. ...

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The Baltimore Board of Estimates is scheduled to consider Wednesday a $150,000 settlement with a physically and mentally disabled man who allegedly was wielding a knife when he was allegedly shot by a city police officer in 2012. David Yim ...

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A Baltimore City Circuit judge has dismissed wrongful death actions against Baltimore police officers for a 2011 incident that killed two men, including a plainclothes officer, outside the Select Lounge. Judge Videtta A. Brown granted a motion for judgment of ...

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A photo featuring Del. Jon S. Cardin and a Prince George's County Police Department helicopter is raising eyebrows just a day before the Primary Election.

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"Citizens have a right to film us," Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts said during a news conference at the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland.

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A Baltimore woman is suing the city’s police department, alleging that officers arrested her and destroyed her cellphone in retaliation for her using the phone to film police beating up someone else.

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