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DC police chief calls council's defunding effort a 'knee-jerk reaction' 06/25/2020 02:41am • Police Chief Peter Newsham at a press conference. At left is D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) D.C.'s police chief, speaking exclusively to WTOP, said the idea of reducing the size of the force "doesn't seem to make common sense," defended a recent statement that officers hav Fairfax County police limit assistance to ICE in noncriminal deportations 06/19/2020 08:59pm • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, have further decreased their cooperation in noncriminal deportations under a new order. In a policy released on Friday, Fairfax County police implemented changes that will limit how officers assist with deportations, as well as change how they ask for identific Prince George's Co.'s assistant police chief takes over on interim basis 06/19/2020 02:03pm • Prince George's County's assistant police chief, Hector Velez, will serve as interim chief of the department, County Executive Angela Alsobrooks said Friday. Velez takes over as the county conducts a nationwide search to replace Hank Stawinski, who abruptly resigned Thursday. That resignation DC files lawsuits accusing relatives, health aide of taking financial advantage of seniors 06/11/2020 11:02pm • D.C. has filed multiple lawsuits accusing relatives and a caretaker of taking financial advantage of elderly residents. The D.C. Attorney General’s Office filed five separate lawsuits against family members and a home health aid they said “financially exploited” vulnerable adults. The Di As courts reopen amid COVID-19, Maryland AG forms task force to stave evictions 06/11/2020 02:40pm • As Maryland's courts reopen, Attorney General Brian Frosh has formed a COVID-19 Access to Justice Task Force to deal with preexisting racial inequities within the health care and justice systems, which are poised to be exacerbated by the ongoing public health crisis. In an online news conference, Loudoun Co. double-murder suspect seeks to quash statements, lie detector 06/10/2020 02:55pm • The lawyer for a man charged with the 2018 armed murders of an Aldie, Virginia, woman and her adult son said detectives from the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office violated his client's constitutional rights by continuing to question him after he asked for his lawyer close to a dozen times. Brian Ku DC Council unanimously approves sweeping police reforms in emergency legislation 06/09/2020 09:38pm • A person walks Tuesday, June 9, 2020, near the White House in Washington, past signs hanging on a police fence at 16th and H streets after days of protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) The D.C. Council voted unanimously Tuesday afterno Bowser, DC Council respond to calls to defund police 06/09/2020 02:45am • People make their way along 16th Street, Monday, June 8, 2020, near the White House in Washington, after days of protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) EXCLUSIVE: Lawyer of suspect in viral bike trail assault says client was on his way to priest when stopped by police 06/06/2020 05:56pm • A cyclist is wanted for assaulting people putting up signs along the Capital Crescent Trail. (Courtesy NBC Washington) A Maryland man charged with assaulting three teenagers after a video showed him grabbing a protest flyer from one of teens is apologizing. In a statement released by his lawy How messaging technology is helping fuel global protests 06/06/2020 01:26pm • When a friend shared a Facebook post with Michelle Burris inviting her to protest in downtown Washington, D.C., last Saturday, she knew she had to go. So she bought a Black Lives Matter mask from a street vendor before marching the streets of the district with a “No Justice, No Peace" sign. Aft Cyclist who charged teens putting up George Floyd protest flyers 'sick with remorse' 06/06/2020 11:10am • Anthony Brennan III, of Kensington, Maryland, who was charged on Friday with three counts of second-degree assault after a widely circulated video allegedly showing him assaulting three young walkers posting flyers protesting the death of George Floyd on the Capital Crescent Trail in Montgomery Coun Va. state police break up protest stopping traffic on I-95 06/06/2020 06:37am • Protesters blocked traffic while marching on I-95 in Prince William County, Virginia, Friday evening before state police broke up the demonstration and made multiple arrests, authorities said. According to the police, the group of 75 protesters entered the highway from Exit 152 near Dumfries arou Park police: Cyclist filmed assaulting people posting signs 06/04/2020 10:15pm • BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Park police in Maryland are looking for a man after a video appeared to show him violently grab an object from a child who was posting signs protesting the death of George Floyd. The Maryland-National Capital Park Police tweeted that the assault occurred on Monday on the Ca Column: 'Stick to sports?' Never again 06/03/2020 05:03pm • "Stick to sports." "Shut up and dribble." These are some of the worst, and incredibly tired, statements uttered by small-minded people who don't like when an athlete says something pertaining to social or political matters the hearer doesn't agree with — as if athletes are lesser members of Bowser orders new curfew; 'sad and angry' after destruction, mayhem in DC during protests 06/01/2020 11:57am • (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384';cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: '6b297233-7ae5-4861-a43c-e237f8e74a10' }).render("522615364291fbbf");}); D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered another