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94% of police use of force in DC is against Black people, study finds
WASHINGTON — Out of all use of force incidents by police in 2023, a DC government study found that 94% of all the people involved in these incidents were Black, according to a report released on Tuesday. This statistic from the DC Office of Police Complaints was higher than...
Oliver mass shooting: Man charged with murder held without bail; attorney calls him ‘peacemaker’
A Baltimore judge denied bail Wednesday for a motorcycle club member accused of murder in a fatal fight that started over a parking spot. Eric Kibler, 43, of Hagerstown, is charged with first- and second-degree murder and related assault and firearms offenses in the Aug. 18 death of 36-year-old Anthony Martin, one of eight people shot in the Oliver neighborhood that night. Kibler belongs to ...
Man arrested for deadly shooting in NE DC
WASHINGTON — Police have arrested a man they say is behind a deadly shooting in Northeast D.C. in winter of last year. Just after 4 p.m. on Dec. 3, 2023, officers responded to Benning Road in Northeast for a report of a shooting. Once there, officers located a man on the sidewalk who had been shot. He was taken to an area hospital for treatment of his injuries where he later died. That man was identified as 38-year-old Michael Hansley.
Single Mother Of Two Identified By Police As Pedestrian Killed Crossing Gaithersburg Road
Dinora Aleman Amaya was on her way home from work in Montgomery County when she was struck and killed by a vehicle while crossing the road in Gaithersburg, friends say.Investigators have identified the 30-year-old single mother of two from Germantown as the pedestrian who was fatally struck crossin…
DC residents say they do not want holding cells in their neighborhood, the city says it is necessary
WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Residents in the Mount Vernon Triangle are pushing back on the city's plan to temporarily move the Department of Corrections (DOC) central cell block to their neighborhood as the District advances renovations at police headquarters. The Department of General Services (DGS) filed a special exception...
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