Baltimore to settle a dozen Gun Trace Task Force lawsuits for nearly $2.5 million
Baltimore’s spending panel is set to pay nearly $2.5 million to resolve lawsuits from 11 men and one woman who say they were either wrongfully searched, falsely arrested, robbed or beaten by rogue police officers, nearly all working in the disgraced Gun Trace Task Force. The Board of Estimates is scheduled Wednesday to approve the money in a second wave of payments to settle complaints about the corrupt police squad. These new payments push to $2.7 million the amount paid so

