The video does not clearly depict a gun in Hawkins’ hand. His cousin also questioned why police pursued him in the first place. Story: https://t.co/96IuzvUyE1

Family members identified the man fatally shot by Baltimore Police last night as Dwight Hawkins, 37. They provided surveillance footage from a neighbor’s house showing Hawkins running from 3 GVU officers, 2 of whom open fire after he makes a sudden turn.

At this perilous time in our country, we need quality journalism more than ever. Using AI to fill a page and calling it "analysis" is the opposite of that.   The Baltimore Sun Guild is right to call this out. It’s a disservice to the Sun's readers and its reporters.

One of the drivers in the March 22, 2023 crash on I-695 that killed six just got cited for driving without a license. His probation conditions prevent him from driving a vehicle. Police say he was taking a friend from the hospital to McDonald's. https://t.co/Ic2k0td4SS

She’s also “incredibly concerned” now that the IG’s office can’t see who accessed their files, including information about tipsters. “Everything has changed,” she said. “I don't have the ability to allow confidentiality at this point, and that bothers me greatly.”

@OAGMaryland She’s also asked her advisory board to allow her to recruit pro bono counsel to enforce an outstanding subpoena for info.

She and @OAGMaryland agree on at least one thing — the state legislature could carve out IGs to allow access to info that would be redacted. She called on residents to push on lawmakers to do so.

Applying the state’s MPIA exceptions to city oversight investigations — as the mayor and AG’s offices are now saying — would have hindered nearly a third of the Baltimore OIG’s investigations, @isabel_cumming says at an advisory board meeting.

New: The former second-in-command of the Cumberland Police Department has been indicted on charges that he repeatedly assaulted female coworkers by applying "pain compliance pressure points," the Office of the State Prosecutor announced today. Indictment:

Bates spox clarifies this is not a threat to bring litigation against the city, but an assumption that the dispute will go in front of a judge if public defender’s office seeks disclosure in affected cases, as it has vowed to do.

Baltimore State's Attorney Ivan Bates responds to a legal review ordered by Mayor Brandon Scott re:MONSE-SAO breakup: “Sounds like I will see the Mayor in Court.”

Absent from the Ivan Bates-Brandon Scott debate over collaboration: the @OAGMaryland, which also prosecutes some GVRS cases. They’re not talking about where they stand on evidence disclosure issues, at least not publicly. https://t.co/0Y9pqDTEMK

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ICE says that the crowded Baltimore holding area seen in a video that’s been making the rounds on social media is due to the icy weather halting transportation. An advocacy group says that crowded cells and long waits at 31 Hopkins Plaza have been the norm for the past year.

Story on the AG's report:

There's been some progress since Melton's death: @Zeke_Cohen has scheduled a Balt. City Council oversight hearing on CAD for next month, and @RepJohnnyO said last week that he secured $3.7 million in federal $$ for a replacement as part of a funding bill now before the Senate.

In September, we reported that Baltimore 911 officials had warned that the city's CAD system was old and prone to bugs, and that the backup system when the CAD goes down is pen-and-paper. But a full upgrade could cost up to $15 million. https://t.co/s74dqkipxk

Baltimore Police waited about 40 minutes for an ambulance that never came. Hours later, Dontae Melton Jr. died. A report by the AG's office, sent to media today by a lawyer for his family, blames the city's aging computer-aided dispatch system for the non-response by medics.

The legislative investigations hearing on the issue will be held in February, Cohen's office said Monday.

That outage wasn't an isolated incident. IT and 911 officials had warned repeatedly that the emergency comms system was prone to freeze-ups and in need of replacement. https://t.co/s74dqkhRHM