———— ♦ ———— In West Baltimore, open carry is now Baltimore Gets Bloodier As Arrests Drop Post-Freddie Gray “Arrests were already declining before Freddie Gray died …” “Even before Gray’s death, police were making between 25 and 28 percent fewer arrests each month than they made in the same month last year.” “’Before it was over-policing. Now there’s no police,’ said Donnail ‘Dreads’ Lee, 34, who lives in the Gilmor Homes, the public housing complex where Gray, 25, was chased

———— ♦ ———— Man’s name change dramatically improves job hunt ———— ♦ ———— Jamarion Lawhorn update Previous post: In playground murder, 12-year-old boy charged as an adult Next post: Jamarion Lawhorn update It has since become clear that (1) at the time of the murder, the suspect was suicidal, and (2) he had been subject to years of severe child abuse. Articles not included in the links below mention that, immediately before the murder, he had swallowed a handful of “pink pills

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