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Maryland County Reaches $20 Million Settlement in Fatal Police Shooting of Handcuffed Man
In Maryland, officials for Prince George’s County have agreed to pay $20 million to the family of a man who was shot and killed by a police officer while handcuffed in a police cruiser. The Baltimore Sun reports that Michael Owen Jr., the officer responsible for shooting William Green, has been in jail since being…
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Prince George's County Police Officer Indicted in Fatal Shooting of Handcuffed Man
A grand jury has indicted Prince George’s County police officer Michael A. Owen Jr. on second-degree murder, manslaughter and assault charges in the fatal shooting of a man in police custody. WUSA-9 reports that Owen was also indicted on charges of misconduct in office and using a handgun, according to an announcement from County State’s…
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Maryland Officer Charged With Murder After Shooting Handcuffed Suspect in Cruiser
To hear Prince George’s Police Chief Hank Stawinski tell it, it was a case so egregious, the department had to act quickly. Stawinski announced Tuesday night that Cpl. Michael Owen Jr. had been charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and weapons charges for shooting and killing William Howard Green, who was handcuffed in the front seat…
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Handcuffed Man Shot and Killed by Maryland Police Officer
An unidentified man died in the front passenger seat of a police cruiser in Prince George’s County, Md., on Monday night—fatally shot by the officer driving the car. What’s not clear is what led the cop to shoot the handcuffed suspect in the first place. NBC News, citing police spokesperson Christina Cotterman, reports that cops…
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‘Conspicuously Deficient’: NAACP Challenges 2020 Census’ Ability to Count Communities of Color
The NAACP, in a lawsuit filed against the U.S. Census Bureau last Friday, is alleging the federal government is unprepared to accurately count America’s black residents—an issue that could result in political disenfranchisement and billions of dollars in losses for black and brown communities. The suit, filed alongside Prince George’s County, one of the country’s…
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Maryland County Passes a Black Lives Matter Week of Action for All Its Schools
The Prince George’s County school board voted unanimously on Friday to pass a resolution (pdf) called the “Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools” so that the 128,000 students in the second-largest school district in Maryland will learn about and discuss the Black Lives Matter movement starting Monday. Fox 5 DC reports that the…
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I Wanted to Do a Good Deed. I Talked Myself Out of It Because I Thought of All the Ways It Might Get Me Killed
Last night, while heading to drop my daughter off at her mother’s house after her martial arts class, I noticed that the lights on a car in her mother’s neighborhood were blinking on and off. It was fairly windy, so maybe a gust had set off the car alarm, though no sound was coming from…
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Spelman Grad Bringing Prince George’s County, Md., Its 1st Medicinal-Cannabis Dispensary
At 25, Hope Wiseman is set to become the country’s youngest black female owner of a cannabis dispensary. The medicinal-cannabis dispensary, Mary and Main, will open in winter 2018 in Prince George’s County, Md., and will offer a variety of products and therapy treatments. With a recommendation from a registered physician in hand, customers can…
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Md. Man Confesses to Killing 6-Year-Old Sister, 2 Young Cousins: Report
A 25-year-old man has confessed to killing his 6-year-old sister and his two young cousins while he was supposed to be baby-sitting the little girls at a family home in Maryland, authorities say. CNN reports that the man in question, Antonio Williams, is facing charges of first- and second-degree murder in the deaths of his…
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Md. Father Accused of Punching Infant Son to Death and Burying Body in the Woods Pleads Guilty
A Maryland father who was accused of fatally punching his infant son to death before burying the child’s body in the woods has pleaded guilty. According to the Washington Post, 33-year-old Antoine Petty was convicted of first-degree child abuse resulting in death in the killing of 2-month-old Antoine Flemons. Authorities said that Petty attacked the…