Baltimore

Baltimore Police Used Force 2,818 Times In Six Years. They Found One Violation

  • August 10, 2016
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A Department of Justice report found the police force holds an “us-versus-them mentality” and routinely abuses residents’ rights. WASHINGTON ― The Baltimore Police Department routinely abused residents’ civil rights, performed unconstitutional searches, retaliated against individuals exercising free-speech rights and failed to hold cops accountable for misconduct, according to a damning federal report. The Justice Department report, to be formally released on Wednesday, confirms what some Baltimore residents already know ― that Baltimore police routinely and disproportionately stop, frisk and arrest poor black residents without legal justification. “Baltimore’s legacy of government-sanctioned discrimination, serious health hazards, and high rates of violent crime…

Police officer absolved in Freddie Gray case

  • June 23, 2016
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Baltimore police officer Caesar Goodson Jr. on Thursday was cleared of criminal wrongdoing in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died of injuries sustained while in police custody. Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams found Mr. Goodson, who is also black, not guilty of all criminal counts including second-degree depraved heart murder, the most serious accusation against any of the six officers charged in connection with Gray’s death. Prosecutor had failed to secure convictions in two earlier trials of police officers. Mr. Goodson, 46, was the driver of a police transport van in which Gray broke…

6 Baltimore Police Officers Charged in Freddie Gray Death

The New Yorck Times By ALAN BLINDER and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑAMAY 1, 2015 BALTIMORE — Baltimore’s chief prosecutor charged six police officers on Friday with a range of crimes including murder and manslaughter in the arrest and fatal injury of Freddie Gray, a striking and surprisingly swift turn in a case that has drawn national attention to police conduct. The state’s attorney for Baltimore City, Marilyn J. Mosby, filed the charges almost as soon as she received a medical examiner’s report that ruled Mr. Gray’s death a homicide, and a day after the police concluded their initial investigation and handed over…