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Officer involved in Freddie Gray's death will oversee Baltimore police integrity unit

5:00am February 14, 2024

by Jonathan Franklin

Captain Alicia White's move to the Public Integrity Bureau went into effect on Feb. 11, officials say. She is one of the six officers involved in Freddie Gray's death, none of whom were convicted.

Dawnta Harris, who is now 17, was charged as an adult, accused of murdering police officer Amy Caprio in May of 2018.

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Teen Gets Life Sentence For Killing Police Officer In Baltimore County

3:57pm August 21, 2019

by Bill Chappell

Dawnta Harris was 16 when the stolen Jeep he was driving ran over Officer Amy Caprio, 29, in the spring of 2018. Harris will be able to seek parole.

Protesters march to the Thomas F. Eagleton Federal Courthouse on Aug. 10, 2015, in St. Louis.

'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' Examines What Led To Ferguson And Baltimore Protests

4:14pm August 01, 2019

by Nicholas Cannariato

Unlike many academic tomes, Jennifer Cobbina's book doesn't presume prior knowledge; it establishes historical and cultural context for the distrust many African Americans feel toward law enforcement.

A short video posted on social media shows DaShawn McGrier with his back against a wall, having an argument with a Baltimore police officer that then turned violent.

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Baltimore Officer Resigns After Video Shows Him Repeatedly Punching Man

12:06pm August 13, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

The Baltimore Police Department said it suspended the unnamed officer within hours of Saturday's incident, and that late Sunday the police commissioner accepted had accepted the officer's resignation.

Fire shoots out from a Baltimore store on Gay Street as looting erupted in a five-block business section in Baltimore on April 6, 1968. Police sealed off the area.

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50 Years Ago Baltimore Burned. The Same Issues Set It Aflame In 2015

6:01am April 07, 2018

by Brakkton Booker

Riots in Baltimore broke out days after Martin Luther King Jr.'s murder. Segregation and economic tensions led to civil unrest. Those issues were still present in 2015 after the death of Freddie Gray.

Samirah Franklin, 19, is lead organizer of the Baltimore Youth Organizing Project. She lives in West Baltimore, near where the violence and looting broke out after Freddie Gray's funeral two years ago.

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2 Years After Unrest, Baltimore's Youth Are 'Still Fighting For The Basics'

5:00am April 27, 2017

by Pam Fessler

After unrest in Baltimore two years ago brought national attention and some help to the city's problems, activists say young people in the city's poorest neighborhoods still need more help.

The Justice Department released a report Wednesday morning that was highly critical of the Baltimore Police Department for systematically stopping, searching and arresting the city's black residents, frequently without grounds for doing so.

DOJ's Withering Baltimore Report Says 'What Black Folks Have Been Saying For Decades'

6:45pm August 12, 2016

by Leah Donnella

"I don't know people who weren't aware of the stats that were just published. ... We already know the score," says D. Watkins, an author and journalist who grew up in the city.

People walk by a mural depicting Freddie Gray in Baltimore on June 23, at the intersection where Gray was arrested in 2015.

Justice Department Issues Critical Report On Baltimore Police Department

9:51pm August 09, 2016

The report finds that Baltimore Police disproportionately targeted African Americans for stops and arrests and police retaliated against citizens for exercising their right to free speech.

Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, center, speaks during a news conference Wednesday after her office dropped remaining charges against the three Baltimore police officers who were still awaiting trial in Freddie Gray' death. Third from left, in a

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WATCH: Marilyn Mosby: 'The System Is In Need Of Reform'

2:50pm July 27, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

The Baltimore state's attorney has dropped all remaining charges related to the death of Freddie Gray, but she says she stands by the legitimacy of the criminal charges.

People walk by a mural depicting Freddie Gray in Baltimore on June 23, at the intersection where Gray was arrested in 2015. Prosecutors in Baltimore have dropped all remaining charges against police officers related to Gray's death while in police custody

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Prosecutors Drop All Remaining Charges Against Officers In Freddie Gray's Death

1:41pm July 27, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

After four trials ended without convictions, prosecutors announced Wednesday that they were dropping all remaining charges. Gray died in 2015 after injuries sustained while in police custody.