Baltimore Cops Carried Toy Guns to Plant on People They Shot, Trial Reveals – VICE

One officer involved in the city’s massive corruption scandal said officers kept the replicas “in case we accidentally hit somebody or got into a shootout, so we could plant them.” Last week, the beginning of an explosive corruption trial involving eight members of Baltimore’s elite Gun Trace Task Force revealed that a handful of Baltimore…

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Baltimore’s Confederate Monument Was Never About ‘History And Culture’ | HuffPost

08/17/2017 11:11 am ET Updated 1 day ago Americans have probably had about enough of Confederate monuments this week, but the dual equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson whisked away from its pedestal Wednesday morning in Baltimore is worth examining, especially in light of President Trump’s continued fixation on the issue….

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Police allege IT worker at Washington Post was impersonating ICE officer – The Washington Post

An IT worker at The Washington Post impersonated a federal law enforcement officer in Northern Virginia and was seen wearing a ballistic vest bearing the label “ICE” across the front, according to police allegations filed in Montgomery County District Court. Itai Ozderman, 35, of Gaithersburg was suspended by The Post on Monday, his attorney Thomas…

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Police Pledge “Fresh Look” At Rape Cases After BuzzFeed News Investigation – BuzzFeed News

View this image › Jim Johnson, Baltimore County Police Department chief of police. Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call,Inc. ID: 9591600 One day after a BuzzFeed News investigation exposed how the Baltimore County Police Department declares many rape reports “unfounded” after only minimal investigation, the department has promised to “re-examine” three years’ worth of such reports….

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Two Videos of the Same Arrest in Baltimore Shows How MSM Does Not Give You the Whole Truth | The Free Thought Project

Baltimore, MD — Just minutes after the police state curfew went into effect in Baltimore Saturday night, the brutality began. However, the actual coverage of that brutality varies depending on who is telling this story. The first video of the arrest is put out by CNN. It begins with a semi-conscious man laying on the ground…

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Riots work: Wolf Blitzer and the Washington Post completely missed the real lesson from Baltimore – Salon.com

When Oscar Grant was shot by transit cop Johannes Mehserle in Oakland in the early hours of January 1, 2009, a week passed with no institutional response, while videos of Grant’s murder spread on YouTube like a prairie fire. Then people rebelled, rioted, and took over the streets of Oakland twice—on January 7 and January 14—and just…

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