The parents of a 21-year-old man killed by police at a Gaithersburg McDonald's last year have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Montgomery County.

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The Baltimore County Police Department is facing a lawsuit over a 2019 vehicle chase that led to the death of a 20-year-old carjacking suspect when an officer ran over the man with a cruiser.

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The mother of a man who died after a violent encounter with Prince George's County police has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.

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Anne Arundel has moved to dismiss an excessive force lawsuit brought by a young Black man who said an officer kneeled on his neck after a traffic stop in 2019.

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A Silver Spring family, saying they were brutalized during a no-knock warrant, has filed a million-dollar federal lawsuit against the Montgomery County Police Department for what the family describes as a poorly drafted and violently executed early-morning search for the 20-something son of their basement apartment tenant.

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The Maryland Senate on Wednesday passed police reform proposals to curtail excessive force, limit no-knock warrants, prevent departments from acquiring military equipment, mandate body cameras, make the police disciplinary process transparent and uniform and empower the state prosecutor to investigate ...

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Welcome to Monday, the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s establishment of the Peace Corps. Here are some news items to get your week started. — Should a judge decide who prosecutes alleged police use of excessive force? — ...

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In a case centering on video of a police-involved shooting, a divided Maryland high court Tuesday reinstated a jury’s civil verdict that a Baltimore officer used excessive force by firing four shots into a motorist who ran toward him during ...

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An Elkton man has filed suit against the town’s police department and two officers, alleging he was forcefully arrested without cause at his home in 2018. Darryl T. Wilson claims Officers Enos Detweiler and Jakob Brown came to his home for ...

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When a prisoner shattered glass panes in a control center at a Baltimore jail, the staff summoned a paramilitary-style tactical team to help quell the disturbance. Some inmates used pieces of shirts or bedsheets to hide their faces.

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