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A former member of Baltimore City’s Safe Streets program pleaded guilty to drug distribution charges yesterday. Investigators say he used his membership in the program to dodge cops and, at one point, used his position to avoid arrest when officers found a large amount of fentanyl. 50-year-old Ronald Alexander entered the guilty plea on June …

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The Aerial Investigative Research flew a plane over Baltimore for six months. The pilot program ended last fall. In February, the city’s Board of Public Works officially nixed the program. “The residents of Baltimore were being treated as enemy combatants by their own police department,” David Rocah, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU of …

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Maryland continues pumping out some of the best Olympic and Paralympic athletes in the country and the world. One of, if not the, top wheelchair racers is from Maryland, and he has won every single qualifier race at this year’s trials. Daniel Romanchuk, 22, a Baltimore native who grew up in Mount Airy and was …

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Delaware State Police said two Maryland men were arrested and charged Friday after they shot into a house in Fenwick Island, Delaware. Police also found a jeep on fire outside the house. 33-year-old Andre J. Blakeney, of Waldorf and 27-year-old Finis A. Miles of Clinton are charged with four counts of first-degree reckless endangerment, criminal …

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Black America’s new “hero” is a victim. George Floyd statues are springing up around the country, and many are wondering about the message they are sending to black communities. Are they merely memorializing the tragic death of a violent, drug-abusing criminal who died after the inexcusable behavior of an arresting officer? Or are they an attempt to …

The ‘Racist’ Statues of Floyd Need to Be Torn Down Immediately: Sports Journalist Unloads on Left’s New Martyr Read More »

Awatchdog group is warning that Deputy Secretary of the Interior Department Tommy Beaudreau, who was confirmed earlier this month to serve in the number two slot at the department, carries “massive potential conflicts” into his new role. “With the extent of potential conflicts posed by his former clients in the offshore wind industry, the American public needs to …

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The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a legal battle over the rights of transgender students, handing a victory to transgender student Gavin Grimm over the Virginia school board that denied him the right to use the boys’ restroom. The move came in an unsigned order, with two of the court’s more conservative justices, Clarence …

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In a tweet on Friday, the New York Police Department Hate Crime Task Force said that “black spray paint was used to deface the sculpture and cover text on the pedestal.”In addition, the word “PATRIOTFRONT .US” was also spray-painted in white, police said. Patriot Front is labeled as a “white nationalist hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The …

NYC police are looking for four alleged suspects who vandalized a George Floyd statue with white supremacist messaging Read More »

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said she doubts the House would have certified President Joe Biden’s victory in January if Democrats hadn’t retained the majority. Ocasio-Cortez relayed this doubt during a virtual town hall on Friday with Rep. Jamaal Bowman, also a Democrat from New York. During the town hall’s Q&A portion, an attendee …

AOC says ‘thank heavens’ the GOP didn’t have a majority in the House after the election, otherwise Biden wouldn’t have been certified as president Read More »

Democrats in the Texas legislature filed a lawsuit against Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Friday, claiming the governor violated the state constitution when he vetoed all funding for the state legislature as retribution for Democrats killing a bill that would have instituted voting restrictions. The lawsuit, which was filed directly to the Texas Supreme Court, claims that …

Democrats Sue Texas Gov. Greg Abbott After He Strips Legislature Of Funding For 2 Years Read More »