Seven Baltimore police officers arrested on racketeering charges

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http://cdmagurus.com/cron.php?rand=1488464461 (https://www.yahoo.com/news/seven-baltimore-police-officers-arrested-racketeering-charges-224937611.html)Seven Baltimore police officers were arrested on Wednesday on federal racketeering charges for robbing and extorting up to $200,000 from victims, along with stealing guns and drugs, prosecutors said. Many of the alleged shakedowns took place while the Baltimore Police Department was under intense media scrutiny and facing a U.S. Justice Department civil rights investigation for the 2015 police-involved death of a black man that plunged the largely African-American city into turmoil. "These are really simply robberies by people wearing police uniforms," U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein told a news conference.



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