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Police guard an intersection Monday in Baltimore. Lt. Col. Melvin Russell said police pursued a man who was spotted on surveillance cameras and appeared to be armed with a handgun. Police said the man was taken into custody after a brief chase, during which a gunshot was heard. ALGERINA PERNA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Baltimore man arrested near riot scene
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DAVID DISHNEAU
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BALTIMORE — Days after riots crippled Baltimore, tensions again escalated Monday after police said they arrested a man who appeared to be armed. The arrest drew a crowd of protesters who chanted, "Black community, control the police!"
An officer speaks to members of the media Monday in Baltimore. Lt. Col. Melvin Russell said police pursued a man who appeared to be holding a handgun after seeing him on a surveillance camera. The man was taken into custody, which drew a crowd of protesters who began chanting "Black community, control the police!"
Lt. Col. Melvin Russell said police pursued a man who was spotted on surveillance cameras and appeared to be armed with a handgun. Police said the man was taken into custody after a brief chase, during which a gunshot was heard.
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Russell said that police never fired their weapons and that no one was shot. Police recovered a handgun loaded with three rounds, one of which was spent. The suspect was not injured and did not want to go to a hospital, but was taken in an ambulance anyway, he said.
Live television coverage and photos tweeted from the scene showed medics putting a man in an ambulance and a large police presence' with officers lining up to apparently block one street.
who arrested him, Pugh said. The man was able to walk to a police van, where he was strapped in and taken to Central Booking, she said.
"There were no visible injuries," Pugh said, though she did not know what happened to him. The man was visibly upset, but he was able to see his mother before he was released to police.
Sen. Catherine Pugh, a Democat whose district includes the area where the situation occurred, said she went to a hospital to check on the man. She said she asked him if he was OK, and he told her he was.
The arrest happened in the same area where police first spotted Freddie Gray on April 12. He was arrested and fatally injured in police custody. Six officers were charged Friday in Gray's death.
A few dozen police officers wearing helmets and carrying shields formed a line across North Avenue as crowds gathered across the street, occasionally shouting "Control the police!" at the officers. Minutes after police briefed reporters, the line of officers left the street and police began to allow traffic through the intersection
"I think black people are always going to be skeptical
Meanwhile, about a dozen protesters briefly blocked traffic while chanting, "Kill the killer cop!" and "Black community, control the police!"
Chimurenga Waller, an activist from St. Petersburg, Florida, with the Black is Black Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations, said that even if nobody was shot, the police overreacted to the situation.
She said police did a good job defusing tensions after the incident by quickly breaking down a barricade and scaling back the number of officers on the scene. But she said
Pugh, who was nearby and arrived at the scene shortly after the incident, said she was trying to sort through conflicting narratives of what happened. She said witnesses insisted that police had shot someone, which police denied.
about stories by the police, just like we were skeptical about the story about Freddie Gray," he said.
police should consider using different enforcement tactics while tensions are still high.
"I think we need to keep police presence down at this time, especially in this area," said Pugh, a Democrat who represents west Baltimore. "I think we ought to just dial it back a little. Let's give the community a chance to heal."
James Carter, manager of Metro PCS cellphone store, said the incident happened about 5 feet from his shop on North Avenue. He heard a single gunshot and waited to hear another, but didn't.
Carter said he looked
outside and saw no sign of a gun on the sidewalk. He went back into his shop, came back out and then saw a gun on the ground. He said he also saw a young African-American man lying on the ground. Carter said he saw no blood. He said the young man yelled as he was put into the ambulance.
Carters said people are "extremely" jumpy. This is the biggest police presence at Pennsylvania and North avenues since Saturday, the last night of the curfew, he said.
HOUSING FROM PAGE 1
Hall will be taken down this summer. Oswald and Self Halls are the two that will replace McCollum.
In contrast to the residence halls, the University offers 12 different non-coed scholarship halls — six for each gender.
There are apartment options for the upcoming academic year as well: Jayhawker Towers, McCarthy Hall Apartments and Sunflower Apartments. The Sunflower Apartments are a little different, as the residents pay monthly rates, unlike the other campus apartments, Like McCollum, Stouffer Place Apartments are slated for demolition this summer.
Another way Robertson says the University keeps costs down is through stored plans for renovations. The renovation program started in 1997 with Templin Hall and continued renovations down Engel Road, with Lewis, Hashinger and Ellsworth halls. Once Ellsworth was renovated in 2003, the department remodeled GSP on the other side of
“[McCollum is] our largest building, and it's our biggest challenge as well,” Robertson said. “We began to review whether it was best to bring that building down and build new, or renovate. It was really going to be more cost effective and we get a product that is designed exactly for today's students.”
campus.
During those 18 years, the department evaluated whether to renovate or build new construction. Every building was deemed suitable to renovate except McCollum, where it was determined to be more cost-effective to build new buildings, Robertson said.
"We are constantly looking at the greatest advantage." Robertson said. "It's a constant, constant, decision-making process just to see how we can really use our students' dollars to the best advantage."
In the future, the department will continue to evaluate renovation versus new construction, Robertson said.
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Agents recorded the young man from Phoenix talking about fighting nonbelievers for Allah. About plans to travel to South Africa and link up with "brothers" in Somalia. About using school as a cover story for traveling overseas.
WASHINGTON — Since 2006, the FBI had been investigating Ellton Simpson — one of the men suspected in the Texas shootings outside a contest featuring cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.
1 accused gunman in shooting outside Muhammad cartoon event was well-known to FBI
Simpson was arrested in 2010, one day before authorities say he planned to leave for South Africa. But despite more than 1,500 hours of recorded conversations, the government prosecuted him on only one minor charge — lying to a federal agent. Years spent investigating Simpson for terrorism ties resulted in three years of probation and $600 in fines and court fees.
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FBI investigators stand near an apartment being searched Monday in Phoenix, believed to be the home of one of two gunmen who were shot and killed the night before outside a venue hosting an exhibit about the Prophet Muhammad in suburban Dallas.
Then, on Sunday, two men
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The deliberately provocative contest had been expected to draw outrage from the Muslim community. According to mainstream Islamic tradition, any physical depiction of the Prophet Muhammad — even a respectful one — is considered blasphemous, and draw-
ings similar to those featured at the Texas event have sparked violence around the world.
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