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NEWS FLASH — Man shot in front of library

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ANOTHER MAN SHOT LATER NEAR MORGAN


In a brazen daytime attack, a gunman fired on a man standing on a crowded sidewalk outside the Enoch Pratt Free Library's Pennsylvania Avenue branch Monday evening, hitting him multiple times, Baltimore police said.

A 46-year-old man and another man were in front of the library at approximately 6 p.m. when they began arguing, according to Det. Donny Moses, a spokesman for the Baltimore Police Department. The gunman pulled out a gun and fired. Police earlier reported that the man was struck in the head and was in stable condition, but later corrected themselves and said he was hit multiple times in the back and was in critical condition.

Moses said the victim was conscious and breathing when rescuers arrived and was transported to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center.

The suspect is still at large.

The Pennsylvania Avenue library is located at West North Avenue; there are two subway entrances at that busy intersection.

Later in the evening, a man was shot in the upper back and leg on the 1600 block of Ralworth Road in Northeast Baltimore, according to police. The shooting occurred a block from Morgan State University and Northwood Shopping Center, where former Baltimore City Councilman Kenneth Harris was fatally shot.

A police source said there had been another shooting in the afternoon a few blocks away at Loch Raven Boulevard and Argonne Drive, although police did not issue any information about a shooting at that location. Detectives at the scene of the latest shooting around 8 p.m. were trying to determine if the two shootings were connected but did not believe they were.


— A.F. James MacArthur

 

 

ZERO TOLERANCE FOR ZERO TOLERANCE — Baltimore police officers get new orders for quality of life arrests

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Officers must be mindful that peaceful and orderly picketing or other lawful assembly and/or speech are not prohibited but are in
fact constitutionally protected rights and therefore do not fall under the auspices of disorderly conduct.
— Excerpted from new orders issued to
Baltimore City Police officers, July 2010

 

By Stephen Janis

Make no mistake about it, the Baltimore Police Department no longer supports the zero tolerance arrest policy that led to tens of thousands of people being busted but released without charges that embroiled the agency in controversy and lawsuits.

New orders distributed to police officers earlier this month as the result of a lawsuit settlement with the ACLU and the NAACP make it clear the days of arresting someone for spitting on the sidewalk, urinating in an alley, or simply loitering may be over.

In fact, the orders urge city officers to avoid arrests whenever possible for minor crimes like loitering, littering, and disturbing the peace, infractions that in the past usually earned residents in poorer neighborhoods a night in Central Booking and an arrest record.

“A verbal warning is preferable to a criminal/civic citation,” states the new orders issued by Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld 3rd.

“The Baltimore Police Department does not support a policy of Zero Tolerance Policing.”

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NEWS FLASH — Suspect arrested in weekend murder of Hispanic beat serious charges in 2007, 2009

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CHARGES OF ARMED ROBBERY DROPPED IN 2007;
DRUG  DEALING  CHARGES  DROPPED  IN  2009


The man who confessed over the weekend to beating a Hispanic male to death appears to be another case of a murder suspect who beat multiple charges en route to a more serious crime.

During a confession he told police he hates Hispanics, prompting police to characterize the beating death of the Honduran immigrant man early Saturday morning as a possible hate crime.

However, police have also learned the alleged attacker has a history of violent and erratic behavior along with serious charges for drug dealing in 2009 and armed robbery in 2007 that were dropped by prosecutors.

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NEWS FLASH — Domestic assault suspect wounded in Mount Airy after threatening Maryland state trooper

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MAN SHOT IN LEG AFTER REFUSING TO PUT DOWN GUN
 


By Kevin Dayhoff


A Maryland State Police trooper shot and wounded a Mount Airy man shortly before 9 p.m. Friday evening while responding to a report of domestic violence.

Portions of the incident unfolded live on the police scanner at 8:57 p.m. as the responding trooper was heard on the radio saying, “Put the ----- gun down now!”

As additional police were quickly dispatched to the scene, the trooper reported that the assailant had been shot, and asked for EMS personnel to respond to the scene. The trooper was heard on the scanner shortly afterwards reporting that the assailant’s gun had been secured.

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