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  • Baltimore City Police Has To Pay Rapper, Young Moose, $300K For Planting Drugs On Him

    Baltimore City Police Has To Pay Rapper, Young Moose, $300K For Planting Drugs On Him

    BALTIMORE — A court settlement calls for the city of Baltimore to pay $300,000 to resolve claims that police officers planted drugs on a rapper known as Young Moose.

    The Baltimore Sun reports that the city’s spending board is poised to approve the settlement payment at a meeting next week. Lawyers for the city reached the agreement with Kevron Evans on May 10, but city officials will vote Wednesday on whether to approve it.

    The city already has paid more than $10 million to settle lawsuits against officers who served on a task force notorious for its members corruption.

    Evans sued several Baltimore police officers, including a former detective, Daniel Hersl, who served on the infamous Gun Trace Task Force. Hersl is serving 18 years in federal prison after being convicted in 2018 of charges stemming from a corruption investigation of the task force. He was accused of stealing money before and after he joined the task force.

  • Baltimore Will No Longer Prosecute Low-Level Crimes Like Drugs, Prostitution

    Baltimore Will No Longer Prosecute Low-Level Crimes Like Drugs, Prostitution

    Reports surfaced noting that Baltimore will no longer continue with prosecuting low-level crimes like prostitution, drug possession, minor traffic offenses, and more. The shift reportedly started happening a year ago, with the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    The decision was made by Baltimore state attorney Marilyn Mosby, who noted that there has been a decline in jail populations, along with a reduction in all categories of crime.

    This past Friday, Mosby announced that the move she made to stop prosecuting lower-level crimes will be a permanent one, as the previous way of rough policing and unnecessary violence had became a case study for criminal justice reform. Mosby noted the Baltimore Police Department will be a partner in the move away from low-level prosecution, saying “Our understanding is that the police are going to follow what they’ve been doing for the past year, which is not arresting people based on the offenses I mentioned.”