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Kwame Rose, holding a megaphone, helps lead a group of several hundred people in Baltimore during a march protesting police on May 2, 2015.

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How Have Baltimore Protests Stayed Peaceful? Activists Take Lessons From 2015

10:07am June 04, 2020

by Rebecca Hersher

Unlike the demonstrations that rocked the city five years ago after Freddie Gray, 25, died in police custody, this week's unfolded peacefully. Local activists are helping to avoid unplanned violence.

Jody LeCornu (L) and her twin sister, Jennifer Carrieri, were inseparable.

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3 Billboards In Baltimore: How One Woman Is Trying To Find Her Sister's Killer

5:24pm March 10, 2019

Jennifer Carrieri's twin was shot and murdered in an empty parking lot in 1996, but nobody knows why. This year, Carrieri put up billboards in Baltimore, Md., in the hopes of solving the cold case.

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Joel Fitzgerald is currently the chief of police for the Fort Worth Police Department, a position he's held since 2015. He is the mayor's leading candidate to become the top cop in Baltimore.

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Baltimore's New Police Commissioner Would Be City's 5th In 4 Years

5:37pm December 06, 2018

by Brakkton Booker

The Baltimore Police Department's reputation is in tatters with the community after a series of scandals ranging from officer misconduct to corruption.

A short video posted on social media showed a police officer repeatedly punching a man on the street.

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Former Baltimore Officer Charged With Assault After Viral Video

8:00pm August 14, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

Arthur Williams has been indicted by a grand jury on criminal charges including first-degree assault after a video surfaced on social media that showed him repeatedly punching a man in the face.

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.

Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa resigned on Tuesday. In charges last filed last week, federal prosecutors said he "willfully" failed to file tax returns for 2013, 2014 and 2015.

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Baltimore's Top Cop Resigns Days After Being Charged With Not Filing Tax Returns

4:57pm May 15, 2018

by Brakkton Booker

Darryl De Sousa had only been in the job of commissioner for a few months. Federal prosecutors say he failed to file for the tax years 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Jurors are deliberating in the corruption trial of a Baltimore Police Department unit that witnesses say was rife with crime and cover-ups.

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After Jaw-Dropping Testimony, Baltimore Police Corruption Trial Heads To Jury

6:58pm February 08, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

The case centers on the Gun Trace Task Force, an elite unit that was supposed to be recovering illegal guns. But witnesses say it sold guns and drugs it seized right back onto the streets.

Body camera footage of a Baltimore police operation released by the public defender's office appears to show an officer hiding drugs and later discovering them.

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Baltimore Police Caught Planting Drugs In Body-Cam Footage, Public Defender Says

12:25pm July 20, 2017

by Bill Chappell

The officer has been suspended and two others are on administrative duty, Baltimore Police say. The public defender's office is questioning the officer's involvement in 53 active cases.

A mural dedicated to Freddie Gray was painted near the location where he was arrested in Baltimore, Md. A judge has approved a court-enforceable consent decree to overhaul the city's police department, after an investigation prompted by Gray's death.

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Federal Judge Approves Consent Decree To Overhaul Baltimore Police

5:38pm April 07, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he had "grave concerns" about the decree, negotiated during the Obama administration. But a judge rejected the Trump administration's request to delay the deal.

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.