baltimore - Video - Gangsters Inc. - www.gangstersinc.org2024-03-28T14:49:10Zhttps://gangstersinc.org/video/feed/tag/baltimoreWe Own This City: How A Corrupt Baltimore Police Task Force Tainted Thousands of Caseshttps://gangstersinc.org/video/we-own-this-city-how-a-corrupt-baltimore-police-task-force-tainte2022-05-11T16:33:54.000Z2022-05-11T16:33:54.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10479870693?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Two Baltimore police officers are on trial this week in federal court for some of this worst misconduct imaginable. Detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor were members of Baltimore’s Gun Trace Task Force, an elite group of plainclothes officers expected to get the worst firearms and offenders off the city streets. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Eight of the nine men on the task force have been accused of a range of organized crime-level charges that range from robbery and extortion, to faking evidence, planting drugs, dealing drugs, and other serious crimes. 6 of the officers, Sergeants Thomas Allers and Wayne Jenkins, and Detectives Momodu Gondo, Evodio Hendrix, Maurice Ward, and Jemell Rayam, have all pleaded guilty. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">It’s a staggering fall: the Gun Trace Task Force was created by the city in 2007 with the explicit goal of fighting crime and reducing the city’s rising murder rate. For a while, city leaders saw the task force as a huge success, celebrating the firearms and drugs the men had confiscated. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Today, many Baltimore residents consider the task force’s crimes the biggest scandal in recent memory. Freddie Gray’s 2015 death in police custody and the resulting riots dominated years of headlines, but these officers’s misconduct was the low frequency chaos only people in Baltimore’s most vulnerable communities could hear. </span></p>
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</ul></div>Baltimore drug kingpin Rudy Williams on building a heroin empire with supply from Africa, South America & Europehttps://gangstersinc.org/video/baltimore-drug-kingpin-rudy-williams-on-building-a-heroin-empire2022-02-27T13:37:25.000Z2022-02-27T13:37:25.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10158270655?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Baltimore kingpin Rudy Williams speaks about the complex revolutionary political prisoner George Jackson and Jackson's influence on his political beliefs during the 1970s and 1980s. Rudy compared Jackson to the likes of MLK and Malcolm X, especially for a generation steeped in radical politics. Williams also spoke about some of his street exploits and recounted how international the drug trafficking landscape was back during his day as a distributor. He detailed the drug scene in the early 1980s in Baltimore right before crack hit and heroin was still the main drug ravaging communities.</span></p>
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