Videos showing Ocean City police officers kneeing one Black teen and using a stun gun on another on the Boardwalk in separate confrontations that began over vaping are stirring criticism of the department’s use of force.

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The Community Foundation of Harford County has elected new officers.

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City police released a department policy Friday that tells officers that members of the public have the right to record them carrying out their duties, just days before a hearing on a lawsuit over the issue. The general order was ...

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The four Baltimore police officers who failed to recognize William H. Torbit Jr. as one of their own and shot him dead Jan. 9 refused to cooperate with an independent review board that released its report Thursday. But the public ...

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A federal judge in Baltimore has dismissed Bel Air police officers as defendants in a lawsuit brought by anti-abortion demonstrators, finding the officers were simply acting as backup for Maryland state troopers and did not participate in the alleged constitutional-rights ...

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Records of an internal police investigation into the conduct of two officers are “personnel records” and thus cannot be released to a county inspector general reviewing whether a drunk-driving cover-up occurred, Maryland’s top court ruled Wednesday. With its 5-2 decision, ...

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After a week of trial in Baltimore City Circuit Court, it is now up to a jury to decide whether four men who were frisked and detained for about an hour in a Westside bar while another patron was arrested ...

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Four former members of the disbanded Southwestern District Flex Squad have lost their $40 million federal lawsuit alleging that police department leaders violated their constitutional and civil rights by suspending them from active duty. The officers also alleged that internal ...

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