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Black News, Commentary and Culture | The Washington Informer

Tag: Baltimore Police Department

Courtesy of NNPA Newswire
Posted inBlack Experience

A Troubled Police Force and Hope for Change

by WI Guest Author July 11, 2019December 21, 2021

For more than 50 years, the Baltimore Police Department has earned the reputation as a tough, bruising force that leveled most of its rough treatment and casual cruelty on Charm City’s Black residents.

A roll of police tape (police line) lies on the ground outside a home being foreclosed on in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2009.
Posted inCommunity

Baltimore Mayor Advises Caution After Good Samaritan Killed by Panhandlers

by WI Guest Author December 10, 2018October 31, 2020
Posted inCommunity

Baltimore Detectives Convicted of Robbery, Racketeering

by WI Guest Author February 13, 2018October 31, 2020
Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died a week after he was arrested April 12 by Baltimore police, sustained a severe spinal injury while in police custody. (Screen grab courtesy of WJZ-TV)
Posted inBlack Experience, National

DOJ Will Not Charge Officers in Freddie Gray Death

by WI Guest Author September 13, 2017October 31, 2020
From left: Joe Rich, co-director of the Fair Housing and Community Development Project; former Oakland, Calif., police Capt. Ron Davis; Catherine Lhamon, chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Roy Austin, former U.S. ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago; and former Greenville, N.C., police Chief Hassan Aden participate in a forum on civil rights under the Trump administration at the Rayburn House Office Building in Northwest on April 6. (Mark Mahoney/The Washington Informer)
Posted inNational

Judge Defies Trump Administration, Orders Police Reform in Baltimore

by Tatyana Hopkins – Washington Informer Contributing Writer April 12, 2017October 30, 2020
Posted inNational

Officer Trials in Freddie Gray Death Will Stay in Baltimore

by Washington Informer September 10, 2015October 30, 2020
Posted inNational

Freddie Gray’s Family Settles with City for $6.4M

by Washington Informer September 8, 2015October 30, 2020
Posted inPolitics

Judge Refuses to Drop Charges Against Police in Gray Death

by Washington Informer September 3, 2015October 30, 2020
Posted inNational

Understanding Freddie Gray Pre-Trial Hearing

by Washington Informer September 2, 2015October 30, 2020
Posted inNational

Police Secretly Track Cellphones to Solve Routine Crimes

by Reporter II August 24, 2015October 30, 2020

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