The lawsuit by Baltimore police and firefighters has been winding through the courts since a 2010 city council decision to change existing laws on when employees can retire and receive pension benefits.
Two Baltimore Police officers working with the U.S. Marshals Service were shot in Baltimore Tuesday morning, and the suspect has died, the Baltimore County Police Department says.
The letter is a sharp response not only to the violence of the weekend, but also to the policies of State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who earlier this year announced that she will no longer prosecute a host of crimes, including drug possession, public drinking and urination, and trespassing, among others.
"As a squad, we decided to come together," Officer Jason Sagel said. "We have some handy guys on the squad and her neighbor is an actual roofer and is going to oversee the project and make sure that it's done correctly."
The Charles County sheriff's deputies were stable and in good condition "thanks to a bulletproof vest, the officers who were able to get them out of the situation and good doctors and nurses," spokeswoman Diane Richardson said.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott announced last week that he wants police to focus on violent offenders and said officers should not be handling calls for people having behavioral health issues.
Well-meaning officers need to be trained that the ‘warrior model’ of policing does not fly in Baltimore; that the city is not made safer by a perception in the community that officers are fearsome and predisposed to use force to solve problems,” U.S. District Judge James Bredar said in a statement.
The suspect, 21-year-old Duncan Socrates Lemp was reportedly a supporter of the "Boogaloo" movement, which is linked to white supremacy and violence against police and promotes racial warfare.
A Montgomery County, MD, officer was shot by a suspect after attempting to arrest the suspect for a homicide on Tuesday, police say. The officer was airlifted from the scene by a U.S. Park Police helicopter and condition is unknown.
The man then got into the empty police car, turned it around and drove toward officers, he said. The man struck and killed one of his family members who was in the road. She had come to the scene to try to help “de-escalate the situation,” according to Hector Velez, the interim police chief in Prince George’s County.
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