By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com On May 21, Baltimore County Police Officer Amy Caprio was doing her job when she confronted a male in a Jeep suspected of being part of a burglary in the Perry Hall community of Baltimore County. Caprio ordered the driver of the car, 16-year old Dawnta Harris to exit the […]
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Teen Charged With Murder in Killing of Baltimore County Cop
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Baltimore County Police identified the 16-year old accused of killing a County police officer May 21 in the Perry Hall community of Baltimore County. A statement of probable cause issued today identified Dawnta Anthony Harris as the suspect in the killing of Officer Amy Caprio. Dawnta Anthony Harris is facing […]
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Earvin: `Maryland is ready for a woman of color at the top of the ticket’
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Valerie Ervin, the former running mate of Kevin Kamenetz, the gubernatorial candidate who died suddenly last week, today decided she would pursue the governor’s mansion at the top of ticket. Ervin, a former Montgomery County Council president told the AFRO, “I’ve been all over the state with Kevin and we […]
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Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Race Heats Up
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Ivan Bates, the defense attorney, former prosecutor and candidate for Baltimore City State’s Attorney, has been on the campaign stump incessantly attacking State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and her record. Mosby says her office’s 92 percent felony conviction rate speaks volumes about her record. Mosby, Bates and former Maryland Deputy Attorney […]
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`Ceasefire’s’ Bridgeford Laments De Sousa Resignation
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com After a little more than two months in the chair, Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa resigned this week in the wake of three federal misdemeanor charges of not filing income taxes in 2013, 2014 and 2015. However, it seems abundantly clear to many that there is much more connected […]
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De Sousa Out, Pugh Begins National Search for New Police Commissioner
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Just days after Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh suspended Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa, Pugh has accepted De Sousa’s resignation. “Today I received the resignation of Darryl De Sousa as Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department and have accepted it. I have initiated a national search to identify the new […]
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Mother’s Day ‘Ceasefire’ Weekend: Zero Homicides
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com For the second time in a row, a Baltimore Ceasefire weekend has ended with no homicides due to shootings or stabbings. The result of the Mother’s Day Ceasefire is particularly welcome since Baltimore had endured a recent spike in violence and homicides in April and the first week of May […]
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Mosby Announces Debate Schedule, Defends Record
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Veteran defense attorney Ivan Bates and former Maryland Deputy Attorney General Thiru Vignarajah, both vying to unseat Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, have both accused her of ducking them on the debate stage. Mosby replied to those accusations by releasing the dates and venues for debates she says she […]
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With Violence Spiking, Mother’s Day `Ceasefire’ Right On Time
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Even as Baltimore was tagged as, “the nation’s most dangerous city,” by USA Today back in February, what the nation wasn’t aware of was our city was in the midst of its fourth consecutive month of decreases in crime across the board for the first time in several years, according […]
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Balt. Co. Executive, Gubernatorial Candidate Kamenetz Dies Suddenly
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Kevin Kamenetz, the two-term Baltimore County Executive and gubernatorial candidate died early this morning of cardiac arrest, sending shockwaves across the state. He was 60. According to a press release by Baltimore County Police, Kamenetz was at his home in Owings Mills when he awoke around 2 a.m. saying that […]
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Defamation Lawsuit Against Mosby Blocked
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com It’s been almost three years since the six Baltimore Police Department (BPD) officers charged in the homicide of Freddie Gray were officially indicted by a grand jury. This week, a court blocked a defamation lawsuit by five of the six officers against Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby (police van […]
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Trump White House Wants to Talk About Race
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Perhaps sensing some sort of momentum with Black Americans in the wake of Kanye West’s seemingly ubiquitous, rambling, full embrace of Donald Trump, the president’s most obedient Black supporters are allegedly proposing a series of conversations about race. According to a report by Politico, Trump adviser Pastor Darrell Scott, of […]