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Today is Monday, July 15. Sunny today, cloudy tomorrow. Here’s the forecast. 1. Spend Spend Spend: For MCM readers who celebrate, Monday and Tuesday are Amazon Prime Days. 2. Municipal Monday: The Rockville Mayor and Council meets at 7 p.m. at Rockville City Hall, 111 Maryland Ave. 3. County Council: Montgomery County Council committees have […]

Montgomery County police have released more than 200 minutes of body camera footage on its YouTube channel from the May 9 incident in which a white police officer used the N-word while a group of African-American men were being questioned and arrested. The video footage can be found here. The incident occurred at the McDonald’s […]

Choice Hotels and Marriott International both provided protesters with assurances that their establishments would not be used to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation. On Thursday, about 15 protesters organized by Sanctuary DMV delivered about 122,000 signatures in a petition calling for the companies to not assist ICE. The agency is expected to deport 2,000 […]

Acting Chief Marcus Jones refused to discuss the latest developments in the search for a new police chief Friday. News outlets reported that Jones was out of the running in favor of Tonya Chapman, the former police chief of Portsmouth, Va., and Antonio DeVaul, the chief of Takoma Park police. “I’m not going to share […]

Update, 9 p.m.: Sanctuary DMV, one of the organizers of the protest at Choice Hotels and Marriott International has received a statement from Marriott shortly after delivering petitions. Marriott, based in Bethesda, said: Marriott International has had not indication that any of our hotels have been contacted by the U.S. government to be used to […]

Residents gave their points of view on a proposed policing advisory commission Tuesday night. Torrie Cooke, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, said the commission could help bring the public and police together. Carlean Ponder, a member of the American Civil Liberties Union, believed the FOP had enough influence at the county and state […]

Acting Chief Marcus Jones said Tuesday evening he supported the creation of a policing advisory commission, in which public members would have a role in considering policies that affect Montgomery County police. County police have been under scrutiny for the more than a year. On June 11, 2018, a police officer shot and killed an unarmed […]

The police officer in a viral video that raised questions on police use of force faces a second-degree assault charge, Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy said. Officer Kevin Moris faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison from the assault charge, which is a misdemeanor. McCarthy said Moris also was charged with misconduct […]

Councilmember Will Jawando said he was distraught by the viral videos released last week of a police officer’s use of force on a young man being arrested at an Aspen Hill McDonald’s. In the video, the young man is lying prostrate on a sidewalk and the officer knees him in the back. “In my view […]

Rosa Gutierrez Lopez has spent six months at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church. Her story illustrates the political divide over immigration in this country. Previous Post: Bethesda Church Providing Sanctuary for El Salvador Mother