Category: Public Safety
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Coalition for Police Accountability to Hold March and Rally Today Calling for Statewide Participation as Counties Near Implementation of Controversial Bill
A coalition of 20 organizations will march Monday, March 21st through Annapolis to the People’s Park to demand that the Anne Arundel County Council only pass its Bill 16-22 if amended to include the recommendations of the Anne Arundel County Coalition for Police Accountability. The recommendations were formulated based upon feedback from community leaders and…
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Livestream Alert: Explaining the Coronavirus Vaccines
Please join us for a presentation explaining what the Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines are and how they were made followed by a brief Q&Awith Dr. L.E. Gómez, former research scientist & emergency medicine specialist now Medical Director for one of the largest community clinics in Washington, DC Find it on FaceBook link
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Annapolis Mourns Robert Eades: A Beating Heart of Truth in Our Community
The late Robert Eades was one of those rare brothers whose simulacrum wasn’t what you saw. He was an outspoken advocate for the dispossessed and the oppressed. His humanity was all-encompassing. When he spoke, he spoke from his very soul. If he was your friend you knew it. He had so many friends and admirers when he…
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Will a Civilian Review Board Really Be Able to Take a Bite Out of Police Misconduct in Annapolis?
On June 4 Mayor Gavin Buckely announced his administration has taken steps towards assembling a civilian review board for the Annapolis Police Department. The move came in the wake of massive protests and rioting across the nation in response to the killing of George Floydd. “Our speaking out and moving towards framing a civilian review…
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An Interview with William Rowel about Annapolis’s proposed Civilian Review Board
William: This is William. Andrew: Hey, William. How are you? It’s Andrew from The Patriot. William: Oh, how are you? Oh, Andrew, that’s right. Andrew: Yeah, yeah. How’s it going? William: I am so crazily on the grind that I really … That’s so funny. Good morning. Andrew: Yeah. How are you? Hope I’m not…
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In America, Laws and Police Protect and Continue the Horrific Legacy of Slavery
Criticizing China, Venezuela, Iran, North Korea and Russia, America finds itself in deep trouble, and without leadership. Events strongly echoing more than 200 years of slavery—most of America’s history—should not surprise. Current events are important remnants of slavery. Some politicians dispute slavery’s relevance. But it DOES matter; it is in front of our noses. America…
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Annapolis, Maryland. World’s Capital of Inequality: By Design
When I recently heard that a white condo-owner in the President Point neighborhood of Eastport called the police to make sure “four African Americans” got off their private property, I wasn’t surprised. I was sick. I was sick and tired of living in what I consider to be one of the most racist and segregated…
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Racism: COVID-19’s Pandemic Twin
Until January, the word pandemic was an underutilized vocabulary word. Few would say that they were fully aware of what a pandemic was, or what the word even meant. Only those who studied diseases were aware as well as scholars and historians, tracking patterns of nature and human habits. Now most people, down to the…
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Black Groups Demand Body Cameras for Anne Arundel County Police
A consortium of Black organizations, listed below, demand that Anne Arundel County Executive, Steuart Pittman, continue to include body cameras in the County’s 2021 fiscal budget.After years of urging by community groups, body cameras were included in the county’s 2021 budget at an estimated cost of $5,200,000.00. However, the County Executive has recently stated to…
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Golden-Ager Finds Hope in the Fear During the Pandemic
My desk has papers scattered across it as if a whirlwind passed over it. The dining room table is littered with half completed projects. For a person who rarely leaves a task unfinished, I’ve turned into someone I don’t recognize. Mornings find me reading everything about the virus. How many people in my area are…