A man who was allegedly involved in a significant crash on the GW Parkway was later stopped by police while walking along N. Glebe Road. The multi-vehicle wreck
ACCORDING TO INITIAL reports from the Louisiana State Police, Ronald Greene died in a car crash. This was in May 2019, one year before the murder of George Floyd. Mr Greene’s family was suspicious, so they pressed the police to release footage from the cameras worn by six of the officers on the scene. Not all of the devices were switched on, and it took a 17-month fight before they could watch the footage (the public did not see it until the Associated Press leaked it, seven months after that). The footage showed the troopers repeatedly stunning Mr Greene with a taser, punching him, and leaving him moaning face-down on the road for nine minutes; he died on the way to hospital. Body-worn cameras were present. Transparency was not.
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Fallen police officers in Maryland and across America will be remembered during National Police Week, which runs from May 9-15 in 2021. (Shutterstock)
MARYLAND The biggest effect the coronavirus pandemic had on National Police Week isn t that activities in Maryland and elsewhere have been postponed, but the number of police officers whose lives and careers were cut short by the virus.
While their names won t be read at the National Police Officers Memorial Service until its Oct. 16 rescheduled date, they will be honored virtually during National Police Week from May 9-16 this year.
The coronavirus has been cited for one police officer line of duty death in Maryland in 2021, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page. Nationally, 63 of the 119 police line of duty deaths in 2021 as of May 4, just under 53 percent, have been due to the virus.