A Baltimore jury on Friday awarded $130,000 to a man whose arm was broken by police when he was forcibly removed from a bus during the unrest following the death of Freddie Gray in 2015. Myreq Williams was attempting to ...

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A Baltimore jury awarded $75,000 on Wednesday to a man who was sprayed with tear gas at close range and tackled by police during the 2015 civil unrest following the death of Freddie Gray. Larry Lomax filed an excessive force lawsuit ...

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A jury has awarded $75,000 to a man who sued two Baltimore police officers for excessive force during unrest prompted by a black man's fatal injury in police custody.

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Experts say three straight years with more than 300 homicides and frustration over a perceived lack of accountability for officers threaten to stymie efforts without a sustained push from the community.

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Excessive force and battery claims against a Baltimore police lieutenant who pepper-sprayed a man at close range and a sergeant who took the man to the ground during the 2015 civil unrest following the death of Freddie Gray will proceed ...

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A federal appeals court will determine if Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby is immune from a lawsuit by five police officers who claim she maliciously prosecuted them in the death of Freddie Gray. Maryland Assistant Attorney General Karl Pothier told ...

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A police disciplinary board has cleared the highest-ranking Baltimore officer involved in the arrest of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man whose death in custody sparked the city's worst riots in decades.

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The highest-ranking officer involved in the arrest of a black man who was fatally injured in a police van didn’t give a reason for failing to buckle Freddie Gray into a seatbelt as required, telling internal police investigators he “just ...

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A disciplinary panel has found a Baltimore police van driver not guilty on all administrative charges related to his transportation of Freddie Gray, the black man whose death in custody sparked riots in the city. The three-member board said Tuesday ...

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The Baltimore officer that arrested a black man who later suffered fatal injuries in a police van testified at the van driver’s disciplinary hearing Wednesday that he still considers it dangerous to put a seatbelt on an uncooperative prisoner in ...

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