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Saturday, Jul 14 A little more than two years later, Melvin Townes is ready to talk about the night that he says a Baltimore police officer slammed the then-16-year-old to the ground, put a knee on his back and struck him repeatedly. | | | |
| A Jewish Johns Hopkins University professor said that German police brutally beat him after mistaking him for an anti-Semitic attacker. |
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| Baltimore police have determined who the officer was who declined to respond to a firefighter's report of a man with a gun, police said today. She has not been suspended and is under 'active investigation.' |
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| The judge overseeing federally mandated reform of the Baltimore Police Department is expressing doubt the department has the leadership ability or resources to implement the needed changes. |
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| Baltimore County police officer has been suspended and another officer is no longer with the department after an investigation into claims made against them in the city police Gun Trace Task Force corruption scandal, the department confirmed Tuesday. |
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| Baltimore County Police are looking into the death of a 50-year-old man who was found on a sidewalk in Essex. |
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| A 59-year-old man died after being shot in Better Waverly. |
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| Homicide detectives are investigating after the body of a 36-year-old man was found in Leakin Park on Sunday. |
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