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On Wednesday, socially distanced members of the Maryland House of Delegates applaud the reelection of Speaker Adrienne Jones. MarylandReporter.com photo
UNUSUAL, DIFFICULT SESSION OPENS: Senate President Bill Ferguson kicked off the start of the 442nd session of Maryland General Assembly on Wednesday afternoon with a sobering observation that came as his 46 fellow lawmakers listened on from their glass booths, installed to maintain social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic, writes Bryan Renbaum for Maryland Reporter. “This session will not be easy. In fact, it may be one of the most operationally difficult sessions that we have seen in the last 120 years,” Ferguson said in a floor speech shortly after he was unanimously re-elected to this current position.
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Family of Maryland teen who died in encounter with police sues in federal court
Ovetta Wiggins, The Washington Post
Dec. 17, 2020
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Brandon Jackson, brother of Anton Black, and Janell Black, Anton s mother, in Greensboro, Md.Washington Post photo by Courtland Milloy.
The family of a young Black man from Maryland s Eastern Shore who died during an encounter with police filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the officers, the state medical examiner, the three towns where the officers served and the two police chiefs involved in the case.
Anton Black, 19, died two years ago after being wrestled to the ground by three officers and one civilian, all of whom were White. Police body camera footage shows the officers on top of Black, pressing his neck. The incident roiled the small town of Greensboro, Md., which is named in the lawsuit.
Updated: 4:07 PM EST Dec 17, 2020 The family of an Eastern Shore man who died in police custody and the Coalition for Justice for Anton Black filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court. Black, 19, died Sept. 15, 2018, during an altercation with police in Greensboro, Caroline County. In January 2019, prosecutors decided not to consider criminal charges against officers involved in Black s death.Black s family accuses the officers of forcing him down and pressing his face, chest and stomach to the ground for six minutes, causing him to die by positional asphyxiation, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland.According to a log of police body camera video that prosecutors released in 2019, Black ran away from Officer Thomas Webster IV, Webster called it in and stated Black was schizophrenic and a chase began. The video showed Webster smashing a car window and using a stun gun on Black. Black escaped but was quickly caught, handcuffed and shackled. He became u