County leaders want to examine policy, learn how officers were disciplined
March 31, 2021 | 6:16 pm
April 1, 2021
Body cam footage of the incident
This story was updated at 3:03 p.m. on April 1, 2021, to include comments from the Fraternal Order of Police and clarify details of the disciplinary process.
Montgomery County officials want a hearing to look at county police discipline and procedures after a video showed two officers accosting, handcuffing and screaming at a 5-year-old boy last year.
In the 51-minute video of body camera footage, which police released on Thursday, two officers can be seen and heard accosting the child on Jan. 14, 2020. The boy had walked away from his class at East Silver Spring Elementary School.
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February 10, 2021 | 10:21 am
February 10, 2021
The Montgomery County Council and officials from the Maryland Department of Health discuss the COVID-19 vaccine rollout on Tuesday.
Should the state place a COVID-19 mass vaccination site in Montgomery County?
The County Council thinks it should have happened already and pushed state health officials on Tuesday to set one up.
Mass vaccination sites were one of several vaccine-related topics that county and state officials discussed during Tuesday’s council meeting. Maryland Department of Health officials present at the meeting included Dr. Jinelene Chan, the acting deputy secretary; Dr. Mark Martin, deputy director of the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, and Heather Shek, deputy director of the Office of Governmental Affairs.