Ben Conarck

1 week ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Ben Conarck |John-John Williams IV |Daniel Zawodny

As federal immigration agents sweep the Baltimore region, making arrests as part of President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda, their efforts have begun drawing in local police. In recent weeks, at least two such interactions have generated videos that spread quickly through social media, highlighting new challenges for Baltimore-area law enforcement called in to help protect federalimmigration enforcement agents.

2 weeks ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Ben Conarck

A series of cascading failures by employees at the Baltimore Central Booking & Intake Center set into motion the murder of 34-year-old Javarick Gantt, who was deaf and used sign language to communicate, a new lawsuit alleges. Staff at Central Booking ignored or overruled department policies and guidelines before placing Gantt in a cell with Gordon Staron, a dangerous killer who should have never been in general population to begin with, the lawsuit claims.

3 weeks ago | portside.org | Justin Fenton |Ben Conarck |Pamela Wood

Forensic Failures: 36 Police-Custody Deaths Should Have Been Ruled a Homicide, Audit Finds Published May 31, 2025 An unprecedented independent audit found that 36 deaths in police custody over a two-decade span in Maryland should have been ruled homicides by the state’s top medical examiner, a stinging rebuke of Maryland‘s past efforts to investigate the deaths of those once held by law enforcement.

4 weeks ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Ben Conarck

An attorney hired by the state of Maryland to defend its corrections department in an ongoing lawsuit over Baltimore jail conditions has resigned from the case after admitting to using generative artificial intelligence in filings for a separate case in Alabama.

1 month ago | blackagendareport.com | Chris Hedges |Justin Fenton |Ben Conarck |Pamela Wood

With his veto earlier this month of legislation to study reparations for the descendants of enslaved Africans, Maryland Governor Wes Moore, a Democrat, signaled two things: first, he intends to seek his party’s nomination for the White House in 2028; and secondly, he plans to redeploy the discredited strategy of appealing to white voters by distancing his campaign from African Americans.