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At issue is the law that created the Maryland attorney general’s Independent Investigations Division and empowered it to investigate when people die after police shoot them.

At issue is the law that created the Maryland attorney general’s Independent Investigations Division and empowered it to investigate when people die after police shoot them.

The family and neighbors of 16-year-old Peyton Ham, killed by a Maryland State Police trooper, say they still have questions about his death and the investigation that cleared the officer.

Rich Lowry Apr 27, 2021 8:55 PM ET Fake guns are a common element in police-involved shootings. In Leonardtown, Md., on April 13, a state trooper shot and killed Peyton Ham, a 16-year-old white male, after he pointed what turned out to be an airsoft gun at him. According to an eyewitness, after he got shot, Ham brandished a knife and tried to stand up, defying orders to drop the knife, and the officer fired again. In Hawaii on April 5, police shot and killed Iremamber Sykap, a 16-year-old born ...

April 26, 2021 UPDATE 4/26/2021 @ 5:40 p.m.: Maryland State Police Homicide Unit investigators are continuing an investigation into a trooper involved shooting that occurred in Leonardtown on April 13, 2021. The involved trooper is identified as Trooper Joseph Azzari, who is assigned to the Leonardtown Barrack as a road patrol trooper. He has been a Maryland state trooper for two years and seven months. Trooper Azzari remains on administrative leave pending the results of the ongoing investigat...

The Kosher Gourmet by Nick Malgieri: Chocolate molten delight with creme anglaise is a simple yet elegant make-ahead dessert Most Americans agree that racism in any form is abhorrent. But in recent weeks, far too many who call themselves "antiracists" have inflamed racial tensions with antiwhite bigotry thats every bit as disgusting as what they claim to oppose. When will the antiracists start rooting out the bigots in their own ranks? When Robert Long, a 21-year-old Georgia man, killed eight p...

Nearly a FIFTH of Simon & Schuster employees submit petition to ban deals with Trump administration figures after CEO rejected their demands to cancel Mike Pences two-book deal 216 employees of Simon & Schuster have signed a petition demanding that the company stops publishing authors affiliated with the Trump administration The results of the petition was submitted to company executives on Monday It comes a week after Simon & Schusters CEO Jonathan Karp said the company would move forward with...

Public safety The Social Order Most Americans agree that racism in any form is abhorrent. But in recent weeks, far too many who call themselves “antiracists” have inflamed racial tensions with antiwhite bigotry that’s every bit as disgusting as what they claim to oppose. When will the antiracists start rooting out the bigots in their own ranks? When Robert Long, a 21-year-old Georgia man, killed eight people, six of them Asian, at three spas on March 16, prominent figures on the left refl...

Watching the horrific video of George Floyd dying under the knee of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, even before charges were filed last year, I called it the way I saw it: Murder. Im often accused of being pro-police to a fault. But for me the video was enough. Just as with the Laquan McDonald case in Chicago -- the Black teenager shot 16 times by a white cop -- it was the video. But I wasnt in that Minneapolis courtroom for the Chauvin trial. The jurors were in the courtroom. ...

The Derek Chauvin verdict has been nearly a year in the making. Footage of the murder of George Floyd last May has been viewed by millions worldwide, sparking ongoing international protests against police brutality and igniting policy changes to reform and reimagine the role of police. Though the amount of video footage of the killing was unprecedented and the momentum for justice was undeniable, history did not necessarily point to an easy conviction. The former Minneapolis police officer was...