Seventeen-year-old Sean Johnson is being charged with attempted murder after brutally beating his football teammate.
It’s been a whirlwind week of news coming out of Baltimore surrounding the Freddie Gray case. In the latest development, embattled Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who has been dealing with the fallout since Gray’s in-custody death and subsequent protests and riots in April, has announced that she has no further plans to seek re-election, the Baltimore […]
The city of Baltimore is slated to pay the family of Freddie Gray – the 25-year-old Black man who died of a severe spinal cord injury in police custody – a settlement of $6.4 million, the Baltimore Sun reports. The settlement, which stemmed from a civil lawsuit filed by the family after Gray’s unlawful arrest and death […]
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A fundraiser to benefit the officers in the Freddie Gray case was canceled Wednesday due to backlash from the main event: a former Baltimore police officer performing in blackface. Bobby Berger, 67, planned to perform an Al Jolson routine in blackface to raise funds for the six officers involved in Gray’s unlawful April arrest and […]
Prince released an official video for his song ‘Baltimore’ surround the tragic incident that took place surrounding Freddie Gray who died while in police custody.…
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In what must be filed under “you can’t be serious,” the Baltimore police is investigating a sign found inside the rear door of a police…
After a vociferous public outcry over the death of Freddie Gray, who suffered a fatal spinal cord injury in police custody this spring, Baltimore officials announced plans Wednesday to equip transport vans with video recording cameras, according to Reuters. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said the change comes in the wake of protests after the death […]
An autopsy report obtained by the Baltimore Sun indicates that Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old whodied in police custody in April, suffered from a “high-energy injury” to his neck and spine. Gray, whose death sparked weeks of protests in Baltimore, was unsecured when placed in a police van with shackled feet and hands. The deadly injury was […]
Baltimore we have a problem! And I’m not talking about police excessive force or the shooting of unarmed black men. The numbers are startling.…