Anton Black’s family filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against three Eastern Shore towns and the Maryland medical examiner’s office, alleging the unarmed 19-year-old Black man was killed by police and that the slaying was covered up by a forensic pathology ...

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The General Assembly appears poised this coming session to sharply alter – if not outright repeal – a 46-year-old law governing how police departments discipline wayward officers, amid criticism that the procedures are too protective of them and largely shielded ...

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The Memorial Day death of an unarmed Black man at the knee of a Minneapolis police officer caught on video sparked not only nationwide protests this year but calls from Maryland legislators for law enforcement reform in their state when ...

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Welcome to Monday, the 139th anniversary of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Here are some news items to get your week started. — American runner who uses prosthetic legs loses appeal of Olympics proportion. — George Floyd’s family attorney ...

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The Baltimore Police Department might finally be on its way toward implementing reforms required under an agreement it reached with the federal government to end unconstitutionally excessive tactics, the federal judge overseeing the three-year old accord said Thursday. Chief U.S. ...

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The U.S. Naval Academy has opened an investigation into social media posts allegedly made by a midshipman in the wake of protests over the police custody death of George Floyd in Minnesota, a news outlet reported.

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Baltimore's city council has approved more than $22 million in cuts to police department spending in its 2021 budget as calls for reallocating law enforcement funding have intensified during nationwide demonstrations.

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Johns Hopkins University, a thriving private research institution with one of the world’s foremost medical schools, is suspending the creation of a new armed police force similar to those patrolling numerous other U.S. colleges and universities.

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Support is growing on a four-member panel to remove a plaque from Maryland’s Capitol that honors the Civil War’s Union and Confederate soldiers from the state and once showed a Confederate flag that has been covered over.

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Providing a right to counsel for indigent defendants in civil litigation will be a top agenda item for a task force Maryland’s attorney general has convened amid the economic havoc wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide calls for racial ...

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