Dictionary definition of word treason, selective focus. On January 6, 2021, a violent mob stormed the Capitol building in Washington, DC. The riot led to the lockdown of the building, property damage, countless injuries and, when the dust cleared, five deaths. In the ensuing days of confusion and chaos, Americans are hearing terms we haven’t talked about since we were in history class – words like sedition, coup, insurrection, and even treason. Today’s [...]

Instagram is one of the most popular social media apps. Its popularity does not diminish its dangers, however. While witness intimidation is nothing new, the sheer numbers of people who are threatening one another online seem to grow every day. According to reports, multiple Instagram accounts based in Baltimore were deactivated after it was found those accounts were involved in the intimidation of people who cooperated with police investigations. Even though the accounts were removed, [...]

A tragic accident in Alabama took the life of a five-year-old boy. A Russell County Sheriff told CBS News that the boy was forced to exit the car he was riding in on a busy highway as punishment for ‘acting up.’ The child has been identified as Austin Birdseye. He was riding in the car on Saturday, November 28, with his mother’s boyfriend, Bryan Starr. The Sheriff said that the vehicle was traveling on an [...]

In one of the more shocking news stories of the year, teen siblings who found fame on America’s Got Talent were detained, strip searched, and forced to spend a night in a juvenile detention center. The teens, 15 and 13, were arrested by police in Louisiana in November for refusing to leave their father and go to their mother in a custody battle. The story takes a turn when reports of a strip search reached [...]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently released is 2019 hate crimes statistics, and Maryland had 19 hate crime incidents recorded in 2019. Hate crimes are separated into multiple categories based on the type of incident, location, and agency reporting the crimes. The data was provided by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program. The hate crimes reported in Maryland in 2019 include: 7 reports of hate crimes involving race/ethnicity/ancestry 4 reports of hate crimes [...]

On November 17, 2020, Circuit Judge Stacy McCormack ruled that Darius Devon Mackell was not guilty of murder, robbery, and firearms charges stemming from the death of Dontae Simmons in 2018. Judge McCormack absolved Mackell of those charges in part because she did not find the prosecution’s witness credible. Per The Baltimore Sun, Judge McCormack thought that witness “Esteban Uribe-Rojas could not be taken for his word and there was no evidence to corroborate his [...]

In Mid-November, a DEA agent – dressed up like a FedEx driver – dropped off a package of cocaine at home in Baltimore. A woman answered the door and accepted the package, so police started planning to get a search warrant. Before the warrant could come through, The Baltimore Sun reports, police “said a man, later identified as 25-year-old Stephen Waters, walked out of the home and looked ‘frantically up and down the street.’” In [...]