Updated: A de-escalation training expert and law enforcement veteran viewed the body-cam footage, tells me officers appeared to be not assessing their options, not getting enough information about the patient, and should have waited for a supervisor to arrive before making further moves.
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Downtown Bethesda is completely overrun with No Kings protesters: Crowd along Wisconsin Ave appears to be in the thousands.

Baltimore City Councilwoman Odette Ramos was in attendance at a rally organized by Maryland's Latino Caucus in support of Sen. Chris Van Hollen's trip to El Salvador, in downtown Silver Spring this afternoon.
Ramos "wanted to make it clear that Baltimore wants Kilmar home."

Maryland's corrections department, which incarcerates people who break the law, comes under fire in a budget analysis for repeatedly violating the state's public records law. Anyone else see a problem here?
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From today's City Council hearing: Baltimore Police finished 2024 with a 71% homicide clearance rate, well above the national average. The department's detectives benefited from a 23% drop in deadly gun violence last year.

Maryland's corrections department confirms that a CO was stabbed by someone incarcerated at Bookings last night, sent to "outside medical facility" with "non life threatening injuries." DPSCS is investigating.

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DPSCS (Maryland's corrections dept) is pushing back against this prisoner's account. I am asking follow-up questions but wanted to provide this update in the interim.

With the Mid-Atlantic in a cold snap, I'm receiving messages similar to the ones I used to get covering Florida prisons in the summer. This dispatch is from a prisoner in Western Maryland (I've asked the corrections department to respond).

Wednesday: Maryland's spending board will vote on whether to approve $123K in legal fees owed to plaintiffs' attorneys in the class action challenging Baltimore jail healthcare. The case, brought decades ago by ACLU/local groups, has a long history. h/t @brendawintrode.bsky.social

The city was required to form the task force due to the federal police consent decree it entered into after the death of Freddie Gray. BPD was just deemed to be in "full and effective compliance" for the "civilian oversight task force" section of the decree, despite not following its recommendations

In 2018, the Task Force called for an independent office that would not answer to the mayor or city attorneys. That recommendation is still top of mind for police reform advocates today, and they're eyeing the newly empowered City Council for help making it happen.

Currently obsessed with this guy leaving a review for my local Five Guys that is akin to something an alien would relay re: its first hours on Earth.