Elrich: ‘We’re Not Out of the Woods Yet’
This comes after Gov. Larry Hogan’s announcement earlier this week that the state will start easing capacity limits at bars, restaurants, and other establishments beginning on Friday at 5 p.m. Meanwhile, Montgomery County leaders expressed the importance of exercising caution while increasing capacity limits amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“As Dr. Fauci and Dr. Walensky said, now is not the time to loosen restrictions significantly and risk another surge,” said Montgomery County Council President Tom Tucker during a virtual media briefing following the vote.
“We are not out of the woods yet, and we have work to do,” added County Executive Marc Elrich during the briefing.
We expected today to find out whether Montgomery and Prince George's counties planned to go along with Maryland Governor Larry Hogan's easing of capacity restrictions throughout the state on Friday evening.
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At 4:42 a.m. on this day a year ago [Friday, March 12], a Montgomery County SWAT team arrived outside of the bedroom where 21-year-old Duncan Lemp slept next to his pregnant girlfriend in his parents’ house in Potomac, Maryland. While other SWAT team members set off flash-bang grenades as part of the no-knock raid, one officer stepped forward with a fireman’s pike tool, smashed in the bedroom window, and pulled back the curtains. Another police officer stepped forward with a rifle and, moments later, shot Lemp five times.
Or at least that was the most recent version of the story of Lemp’s killing put forward by Montgomery County police in a report released on New Year’s Eve. However, back in March 2020, a few days after Lemp’s death, the county offered a totally different version, claiming that police entered the Lemp home, announced themselves as police, and encountered Lemp, who refused to “show his hands.” That version said nothing about the bedroom window or the a