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In the wake of the ongoing events in Baltimore, the Justice Department Friday is announcing a $20 million body-worn camera pilot program for law enforcement agencies.

Baltimore police officials said 98 officers have been injured since riots broke out after the funeral of Freddie Gray. Thirteen of the officers had to be placed on medical leave, and 15 were relegated to light duty. Police Capt. Eric Kowalczyk said protesters had fired bricks, bottles, and chunks of cement at officers.

News broke Wednesday that a second prisoner in the Baltimore police transport van with Freddie Gray reported that he heard Gray slamming himself around inside the vehicle in order to “injure himself.” Now that prisoner has gone public with his story.

An ABC news affiliate reported Thursday afternoon that the injuries which ultimately killed Freddie Gray took place inside a police van and not during his arrest. It remains unclear whether those injuries were the result of a failure to secure Gray with a seat belt or caused by some actions of the police officers involved.

A spat between the Turkish government and the United States over police misconduct got personal when the mayor Ankara took to Twitter Wednesday and called State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf a “stupid blonde.”

Reverend Al Sharpton told the media to “quit playing with matches in Baltimore” in a speech on Thursday. Sharpton referenced his confrontation with the Fox News Channel’s Leland Vittert, saying, “when we were just walking in here now, in the

Fox News Correspondent Leland Vittert had a tense exchange with Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D) and Rev. Al Sharpton on Thursday. Vittert said that he asked Rawlings-Blake about FNC’s report that the mayor gave a “stand down” order. The clip

Cultural critic and writer Michaela Angela Davis said that Baltimore mom Toya Graham “is a symbol, and not a hero” on Thursday’s “CNN Newsroom.” Davis began by saying Graham’s case is “complicated” and “this is not an indictment of Ms.

In an echo of protests this week in Baltimore, demonstrators in Jerusalem, Israel have taken to the streets to oppose police brutality against Ethiopian Israelis. The immediate trigger for the protest, which drew hundreds of people to the streets near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence, was a surveillance video showing two policemen beating a black Israeli soldier in uniform. Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat rushed to the scene to listen to the demonstrators’ concerns.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is again under suspicion for having taken a position that allowed rioters to burn her city down without opposition from police. This time, insiders are reporting that the mayor told police to keep hands off the protesters and to stand down in the face of the growing violence.

As the internal investigation continues into the death of Baltimore resident Freddie Gray, a document has leaked that claims a fellow prisoner in the van with Gray told police that the deceased man was “trying to injure himself.”

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) blasted “failed liberal government policies” for miring people in cities like Baltimore in “generational poverty” and argued that change in Baltimore “needs to start in the politics, the failed liberal Democrat policies” on Wednesday’s

On Tuesday, the day before the 23rd anniversary of the LA riots in 1992, Breitbart News interviewed Ryan Gattis, a lecturer and writer at Chapman University who is the author of the new novel All Involved: A Novel of the 1992 L.A. Riots.

Wicomico County, MD Sheriff Mike Lewis (R), whose officers have been helping with law enforcement duties in Baltimore, claimed that a “stand down” order was given to law enforcement in the city on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.

Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis was in Baltimore when the riots got violent on Monday, and he says he personally heard Baltimore officers being “told to retreat” over police radio.

HOUSTON, Texas – Protesters supporting the Baltimore protests came out in Houston on Wednesday evening. The protest in Houston is small in numbers at this time and is peaceful. The Houston Police Department is highly visible with patrol units and the Houston Mounted Patrol officers that are specially trained in crowd control.

MSNBC host Alex Wagner said that President Obama, who she pointed out is “half-white,” is “doubling down” on calling rioters in Baltimore thugs on Wednesday’s “NOW.” Wager asked Salon contributor Brittney Cooper, “you bring up this point in your writing today

On Wednesday, Baltimore ABC affiliate WMAR’s investigative reporter Brian Kuebler reported that police sources and the Baltimore PD confirmed that a “crude explosive device” was found by police on Monday. Kuebler said the device was “charcoal and a small propane tank,

Harvey Levy, President of Sports Mart, which was looted during riots in Baltimore on Monday claimed he had to resort to calling a local TV station to dispatch officers to his store and it took “about an hour” for one

The Left’s fascist rampage to silence inconvenient facts and conservative opinion by labeling both as an act of hate marches on at New York Magazine, where critics of Baltimore’s 50-year Democrat monopoly on city government were attacked as racist by

When you hear a liberal praising a gang of thugs who burned down a church as “resisters,” remember they don’t mean resistance against the Democrat municipal machine that has held power for generations, the Democrat congressional representatives who have been parked in safe seats longer than most of the rioters have been alive, or the Democrat President who has held unprecedented, unconstitutional power for six years.

As I do every morning, I was flipping through the news shows when I came across a CNN panel advertised as objective journalism. Nevertheless, The Washington Post’s Nia-Malika Henderson and Errol Lewis never once brought up the fact that Baltimore

President Obama wants the country to focus on urban problems even after the Baltimore riots end. “People have a tendency, once the fires are out … to go back and focus on whatever reality TV thing is going on,” he said. “We’ve got to make sure that we don’t brush this aside after the crisis is past.”

A new analysis of social media posts spanning the last two years reveals a link between the instigators of the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, last year and this week’s unrest in Baltimore.

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News just a few days before she is set to enter the 2016 presidential race, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina shared her thoughts about the riots and unrest in Baltimore.

Black Lawyers for Justice President Malik Zulu Shabazz argued that the Baltimore Police Department is an occupying force, like Israel on Tuesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Shabazz dismissed the people throwing bottles at police as “just some lightweight

The Fox News Channel’s Geraldo Rivera got into a shouting match while attempting to do a live shot from Baltimore on Tuesday night. Geraldo became upset when a person in the crowd jumped in front of the camera, ordering the

Fmr. Baltimore Police Commissioner Ed Norris criticized the city’s curfew on Tuesday’s “CNN Tonight.” Norris, in an interview that took place around 10:30 pm EST, said that while the police response has been “measured,” “I’m not a big believer in

Vietnam War veteran Robert Valentine discussed his decision to confront rioters in Baltimore on Tuesday’s “AC360” on CNN. Valentine said he wasn’t concerned about his safety, rather, “I’m concerned about the youth, what’s going to happen to them. They go

Former Mayor of Baltimore from 1999–2007, Maryland Gov. from 2007–2015, and now prospective Democrat presidential candidate Martin O’Malley joined a prayer circle outside Simmons Memorial Baptist Church in Baltimore on Tuesday. It’s hard to imagine anyone more steeped in the politics of the area than O’Malley, who was heckled by some when he appeared.

Baltimore City Councilman Carl Stokes (D) criticized President Obama and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D) for referring to rioters in Baltimore as “thugs” saying, “just call them n*ggers” in an interview on Tuesday’s “OutFront” on CNN. When asked if “thugs”

As Baltimore continues to burn from racially motivated riots, some of the scenes on the streets are shocking the nation. One such incident shows a Baltimore shop owner being hauled out of his shop and beaten on the street.

On Tuesday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel, Jeniece Andrews, whose antiques shop was destroyed by rioters in Ferguson, MO said that rioting “is not part of protesting,” that rioters are simply hurting business owners who

While race riots tear Baltimore apart due to concerns about local law enforcement, protests against President Barack Obama’s administration’s alleged sexual and racial abuses against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are emerging in the San Diego area.

Even as the riots in Baltimore Monday night left a string of injured bodies and burned businesses, voices on the left were out in public defending the chaos.

During his press conference today, President Obama addressed the violence in Baltimore, claiming his political agenda would help solve some of the problems found in impoverished urban communities, such as the one where the violence occurred.