The Independent Investigation Division of the Maryland Attorney General's Office released body camera and dashcam video Thursday of the April 23 shooting of a suicidal man by Harford County Sheriff's deputies in a Forest Hill shopping center.
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh has filed a complaint seeking a temporary restraining order to stop the Harford County Sheriff’s Office from “interfering” with a legally required investigation by his office of a fatal police-involved shooting.
At issue is the law that created the Maryland attorney general’s Independent Investigations Division and empowered it to investigate when people die after police shoot them.
At issue is the law that created the Maryland attorney general’s Independent Investigations Division and empowered it to investigate when people die after police shoot them.
The Harford County Sheriff’s Office must cede its investigation into an April 23 police shooting to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, a county judge ruled Thursday. The ruling is the first judicial test for a 2021 law that granted Attorney General Brian Frosh’s office the authority to investigate police-involved shootings. “There is a complete difference .