Baltimore Beat

2 weeks ago | baltimorebeat.com | Jaisal Noor |Logan Hullinger

As day turned to night in Baltimore on April 27, 2015, the number of arrests for disorderly conduct, failure to obey, and destruction of property ticked upward. What began as street protests over the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray exploded into a raw expression of fury. Thousands took to the streets to express their outrage both at Gray’s death and the decades of disinvestment and unjust policing of Black communities in Baltimore.

2 weeks ago | baltimorebeat.com | Lisa Snowden- McCray

Freddie Gray’s death, the Uprising that followed, and the city’s response to police violence deeply altered the way I thought about journalism. I felt pushed to think seriously about the way class comes into account in a city governed by mostly Black politicians. It caused me to think about the way media can be used to sell the police to citizens, as opposed to educating them about the police as a powerful entity in the city — one that residents help fund.

2 weeks ago | baltimorebeat.com | Baynard Woods

On March 12, 2025, Kilmar Abrego Garcia finished his shift as a sheet metal workers apprentice at a Baltimore jobsite, picked up his 5-year-old, special-needs son from his grandmother’s house, and began to drive home to Beltsville. “Shortly after he picked up our son, Kilmar called me, saying he was being pulled over,” his wife Jennifer Stefania Vasquez Sura wrote in court filings.

3 weeks ago | baltimorebeat.com | Logan Hullinger

In the face of the White House’s work to decimate transgender rights and reverse the progress of the LGTBQIA+ movement, Baltimore’s trans and nonbinary community is fighting back. Dozens of activists descended upon City Hall on Monday for Trans Day of Visibility, where local officials assured them that the city would embrace and protect the community in response to President Donald Trump’s transphobic rhetoric and executive orders. Yet, they didn’t show up simply to let their presence be known.

3 weeks ago | baltimorebeat.com | Logan Hullinger

Mayor Brandon Scott unveiled a $4.7 billion budget proposal on Wednesday, calling for a nearly half-a-billion-dollar increase in spending but not accounting for the heavy-handed cost-cutting at the federal level that could dismantle it. As President Donald Trump battles the courts to push through a barrage of spending cuts, Scott’s proposal marks an 11.4% increase in spending from the year prior without accounting for any changes at the federal level.