Baltimore’s Apartheid Schools: Students Forced To Sit in 40 Degree Classrooms

The problem is not that funding is especially hard to come by in Maryland in any general sense. In fact, Maryland has been ranked as the wealthiest state in the United States. The problem is that schools in the city of Baltimore are considered to be “apartheid schools.”

Thandisizwe Chimurenga
By Thandisizwe Chimurenga

BALTIMORE – Usually people – especially children – look forward to snowy days. In addition to building snow creatures and throwing snowballs, it sometimes means no school. Usually. But not in Baltimore; in Baltimore, during one of the coldest winter storms on record, children were in school. They were shivering, wearing coats, hats and gloves, in

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Baltimore Police Vet About to Break Blue Wall of Silence Shot Dead: Dept. Refuses FBI Help in Investigating

It is rare that a police officer is willing to come forward to testify against fellow officers. When the officer in question is shot dead with his own gun the day before such testimony is scheduled, the case is suspicious and troubling — as is the Baltimore P.D.’s refusal of FBI help in investigating the death.

Thandisizwe Chimurenga
By Thandisizwe Chimurenga
Members of the Maryland State Police march into position past police vehicles outside Baltimore Police Det. Sean Suiter's funeral at Mount Pleasant Church in Baltimore, Nov. 29, 2017. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Update: Baltimore’s Police Commissioner has officially requested the FBI to take over the investigation of the death of 18-year veteran Sean Suiter. Suiter was killed two weeks ago one day before he was scheduled to testify in front of a federal grand jury investigating racketeering charges against eight Baltimore police officers. Suiter was not a

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As 34 Innocent People Set Free, Second Video Of Baltimore Cops Planting Evidence Discovered

The new video involves different police officers than the ones depicted in the original video which led to the release of 34 suspects.

Matt Agorist
By Matt Agorist
As 34 Innocent People Set Free, Second Video Of Baltimore Cops Planting Evidence Discovered

Baltimore, MD — After their department gained national shame last week over a video showing an officer plant drugs to frame an innocent man while his fellow cops watched, the Baltimore police department is now under fire again. This time, the Baltimore Public Defender’s office has a second video that allegedly “appears to depict multiple officers

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Watch: Baltimore Officer Accidentally Films Himself Planting Drugs

The victim of the officer’s unscrupulous action spent six months in jail until the video was released and prosecutors subsequently dropped all charges related to the incident.

The Anti-Media
By The Anti-Media
As 34 Innocent People Set Free, Second Video Of Baltimore Cops Planting Evidence Discovered

https://www.facebook.com/TheAntiMedia/videos/847527545372282/ Baltimore — Charges against a Maryland man who has been sitting in jail since January have been dropped after video surfaced of a cop falsifying evidence in the case, it was reported Wednesday. From the Baltimore Sun: “Baltimore police and prosecutors have launched investigations

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Baltimore Police Have Been Secretly Spying On Entire City From The Air

“Imagine Google Earth with TiVo capability.”

Claire Bernish
By Claire Bernish
Aerial view of Baltimore from Persistent Surveillance’s Cessna.

Baltimore Police didn’t bother to inform the public (or anyone, for that matter) when they implemented a privately-funded mass surveillance program in January using a wide-angle camera-equipped plane flying above the city — which instantly uploaded and stored everything it recorded, just in case they needed it later. As Bloomberg’s Monte Reel

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Report On Baltimore Police Shows Pattern Of Discrimination Against Blacks

The report found officers make a large number of stops — mostly in poor, black neighborhoods — with dubious justification and unlawfully arrest citizens when officers “did not like what those individuals said.”

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Police stand in formation as a curfew approaches in Baltimore. Baltimore police officers routinely discriminate against blacks, repeatedly use excessive force and are not adequately held accountable for misconduct, according to a harshly critical Justice Department report being presented Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016.

BALTIMORE — With startling statistics, a federal investigation of the Baltimore Police Department documents in 164 single-spaced pages what black residents have been saying for years: They are routinely singled out, roughed up or otherwise mistreated by officers, often for no reason. The 15-month Justice Department probe was prompted by the

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