The family of Raymond Smoot (left), an inmate beaten to death by guards at Central Booking, is suing the State for $130 million.Reporters, mark your calendars, photographers, shine your kneepads: an arraignment date has been scheduled for dirty flex cops Jemini Jones, Steven Hately, and Brian Shaffer at February 15, 2006 9:30 a.m. before Judge Lynn Stewart. (O'Malley makes a point: the arrests are a sign that he and Hamm are doing their jobs.)
Gentrification will be all that's spreading after Chubbies gentleman's club sells its Adult Entertainment license back to the city.
A judge has ruled MD's anti-homo-marriage statute unconstitutional. Ehrlich is pleading "for both parties to come together to protect traditional marriage" and a delegate Don Dwyer (who appears to represent people from the Glen Burnie/ Severna Park area) wants the House to try to pass a constitutional amendment.
Speaking of Senators (and though we don't like to be political, legislators make laws, and laws make criminals who commit the crimes of which we blog), I finally found a map of Maryland districts that's easy to use. I'm very happy to hear that Paul Sarbanes' son John P. is running in the 3rd so the former ABC-2 reporter Andy Barth isn't unopposed.
2 comments:
Huh? "the arrests are a sign that O'Malley and Hamm are doing their jobs"? the police didn't even charge the officers. The state's attorneys office brought the case to the grand jury and they voted to indict the officers. OMM and Hamm were not part of bring these charges to light.
From the coverage, most of the Southwest officers that had gotten in trouble in the past were given slaps on the wrists by OMM's police department. It took a woman who was raped and contacted a prominent lawyer to get the State's attorney's lawyers, not the police, to bring charges and cross the thin blue line.
Yeah, well, didn'tchya know, the sun rising in the East and setting in the West is also a sign that Marty & Co. are doing their jobs.
My question is, if the SW Flex squad was so notorious for years and years, was Comm. Hamm a)aware of and tolerant of the behavior, or b) ignorant of fairly outrageous conduct, which was well-known to everyone else. Either way, he cannot purport to be a very good Commissioner. Adios, Lenny.
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