Local News Roundup: Public Safety, Policing In Baltimore & Funding Approved For New Youth Jail

BALTIMORE, MD - APRIL 25:  Police in riot gear charge as they try to push protesters away during a march in honor of Freddie Gray on April 25, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. Gray, 25, was arrested for possessing a switch blade knife outside the Gilmor Homes housing project on Baltimore's west side on April 12. According to his attorney, Gray died a week later in the hospital from a severe spinal cord injury he received while in police custody.  (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)May 18, 2015 – Segment 2

We host a Local News Roundtable. Discussion topics will include public safety, policing in Baltimore, and state funding approved for the new youth jail.

With:Dr. Kimberly Moffitt, Associate Professor of American Studies at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and co-Editor of Blackberries and Redbones: Critical Articulations of Black Hair/Body Politics in Africana Communities; Doug Ward, Director of Johns Hopkins University’s Division of Public Safety Leadership; and Baltimore City Councilperson Brandon Scott.

Written by Marc Steiner

Marc Steiner

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