Maddi O’Neill
@maddioneill.bsky.social
Freelance criminal justice reporter in Baltimore. Yes, I can find that court record for you. Hire me: madeleineoneill.com
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November 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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My story about Cumberland’s former police chief and his 2015 admission about “filthy“ conversations with a teenager also appeared in the local newspaper today: www.times-news.com/news/local_n...
November 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
My story about Cumberland’s former police chief and his 2015 admission about “filthy“ conversations with a teenager also appeared in the local newspaper today: www.times-news.com/news/local_n...
And simply took the police's word that the repeal of this law was very bad because it stopped the police from doing their jobs
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
And simply took the police's word that the repeal of this law was very bad because it stopped the police from doing their jobs
Texts from my dad
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Texts from my dad
Open enrollment seems to be going well
November 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Open enrollment seems to be going well
NEW: I obtained body camera footage from when Baltimore County Police officers responded to a false gun alert triggered by Baltimore County Public Schools’ AI-powered gun-detection system. The "gun" was a bag of Doritos. Here's the image officers were referencing:
October 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
NEW: I obtained body camera footage from when Baltimore County Police officers responded to a false gun alert triggered by Baltimore County Public Schools’ AI-powered gun-detection system. The "gun" was a bag of Doritos. Here's the image officers were referencing:
Just a couple of rats in love
October 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Just a couple of rats in love
The Baltimore Sun’s managing editor is personally writing articles citing Laura Loomer and naming an academic that Loomer has accused of creating an ICE tracking app (a practice that experts widely agree is legal)
October 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The Baltimore Sun’s managing editor is personally writing articles citing Laura Loomer and naming an academic that Loomer has accused of creating an ICE tracking app (a practice that experts widely agree is legal)
I have been welcomed into the featherhood (a.k.a. invited to a pigeon club cookout)
September 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I have been welcomed into the featherhood (a.k.a. invited to a pigeon club cookout)
Someone PLEASE let me be a Baltimore media critic
September 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Someone PLEASE let me be a Baltimore media critic
A little girl saw me buying some extra copies of @baltimoremagazine.com and asked me why I needed so many dog books
September 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A little girl saw me buying some extra copies of @baltimoremagazine.com and asked me why I needed so many dog books
Great read and I appreciated this:
September 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Great read and I appreciated this:
Where were all these free speech warriors when Rumeysa Ozturk was getting snatched off the street by masked men *for writing an op-ed*
September 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Where were all these free speech warriors when Rumeysa Ozturk was getting snatched off the street by masked men *for writing an op-ed*
Our governor’s most recent post
September 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Our governor’s most recent post
Bishop Jaron Spriggs, brother of Pytorcarcha Brooks, who was killed by police during a mental health crisis in June, implores Baltimore City Council members to fix the crisis response system that failed his sister. “Something must be done other than what we are seeing play out repeatedly,” he said.
August 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Bishop Jaron Spriggs, brother of Pytorcarcha Brooks, who was killed by police during a mental health crisis in June, implores Baltimore City Council members to fix the crisis response system that failed his sister. “Something must be done other than what we are seeing play out repeatedly,” he said.
NEW: Stancil McNair, an outsider candidate who says he will fight more aggressively for city workers and better working conditions, just won an election to lead Local 44, the union that represents sanitation workers and other municipal employees. Story coming soon for @baltimorebrew.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
NEW: Stancil McNair, an outsider candidate who says he will fight more aggressively for city workers and better working conditions, just won an election to lead Local 44, the union that represents sanitation workers and other municipal employees. Story coming soon for @baltimorebrew.bsky.social
A moment of appreciation for my boyfriend @maxgrobinson.bsky.social, who not only listened to me talk about pigeons constantly for months, but encouraged me to write my first magazine feature about them 😍
August 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A moment of appreciation for my boyfriend @maxgrobinson.bsky.social, who not only listened to me talk about pigeons constantly for months, but encouraged me to write my first magazine feature about them 😍
Anyone who spoke to me in the past year probably heard me mention the pigeon story I’ve been working on… and it’s finally here! My first feature story for @baltimoremagazine.com, with incredible photos by @jmgiordanophoto.bsky.social, will be on newsstands and online soon!
August 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Anyone who spoke to me in the past year probably heard me mention the pigeon story I’ve been working on… and it’s finally here! My first feature story for @baltimoremagazine.com, with incredible photos by @jmgiordanophoto.bsky.social, will be on newsstands and online soon!
He also seems to have forgotten that a week after this shooting, BPD officers forced their way into the home of a 70-year-old woman having a mental health crisis and fatally shot her
August 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
He also seems to have forgotten that a week after this shooting, BPD officers forced their way into the home of a 70-year-old woman having a mental health crisis and fatally shot her
Here’s Baltimore’s police chief calling a Black neighborhood “filthy” and seemingly not understanding why it’s different when armed agents of the state, funded by taxpayers, shoot people vs. when regular people shoot each other
August 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Here’s Baltimore’s police chief calling a Black neighborhood “filthy” and seemingly not understanding why it’s different when armed agents of the state, funded by taxpayers, shoot people vs. when regular people shoot each other