Police investigating officer-involved shooting in West Baltimore, officials say
In a social media post Tuesday evening, police said the shooting was near the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Laurens Street, in the city's Upton neighborhood.
The Upton Metro SubwayLink Station is in proximity to police activity related to the shooting. The station will be closed until further notice, according to a post on X from the Maryland Transit Administration.
The MTA advised commuters to take Lime for transportation between stations.
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New York Post
2 hours ago
- New York Post
How was a subway hijacking teen arrested 12 times and let go by judges 5 times in just a year? Toxic empathy
Empathy can be toxic. Judges let 18-year-old subway hijacker Justine Randall-Pizarro go, not once, not twice, but five times this calendar year in an apparent bid to show mercy. But all they've really done is allow a clearly troubled teen to rack up a rap sheet of more than a dozen arrests this year, cause havoc on the transit network, inconvenience commuters and harass already overworked MTA employees. Randall-Pizarro was busted for commandeering a locked N train at 4am in June, wearing a black hat and Crocs, then driving it one stop from the Broadway station in Astoria to 36th Avenue. 'I went to Broadway, and behold – there was a lay-up train there. Still on FaceTime with my homeboy, so I drove it while I was on FaceTime with him,' she told investigators. 'And, I don't know, we was just fooling around, turning up on FaceTime like while I was driving it.' 5 Justine Randall-Pizarro has been arrested a dozen times in just 2025. facebook/ebelliousQueenTina A teen wandering the streets at 4am and hijacking subway cars is begging for help. Clearly something is very wrong on an individual level. Not to mention, she poses a massive danger to herself and others. That joy ride easily could have collided with another train. And this isn't even her first go around. Why was she out and about? NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told The Post Randall-Pizarro, who is transgender and listed on all paperwork as female, has been arrested twelve times… just in 2025. The Post was able to confirm 17 total arrests since September of 2024 when she turned 18. 'This person is basically a transit recidivist who keeps breaking into trains,' he said. 'When she breaks into them, she moves them, she steals items – train keys, things of that nature.' 5 Randall-Pizarro allegedly took over an N train and went for a joy ride. Christopher Sadowski All these arrests appear to be in vain. Every time the police nab Randall-Pizarro, the justice system seems hellbent on letting her go with a slap on the wrist. On June 23, she entered a train cabin and allegedly stole a female conductor's bag. Prosecutors asked for $20,000 bail or a $60,000 bond, but a judge released her on her own recognizance. On June 1, she supposedly took control of a different train in Brooklyn. For that, a $25,000 bail or $50,000 bond was requested. Yet again a judge set her loose on supervision. On May 26, she was accused of pepper spraying an MTA worker in the face on board an R train. And yet again she was granted a supervised release, in spite of a request for bail. 5 Randall-Pizarro was let go on supervised release and on her own recognizance by several judges. facebook/ebelliousQueenTina And, again, in a May 15 case that saw her supposedly steal a backpack from a motorman's cabin with keys and an MTA escape mask, a request for a mere $2,000 cash or $4,000 bond was denied, and a supervised release was once again granted instead. In yet another April case involving a stolen backpack containing MTA keys and an MTA radio, a judge denied a request for supervised release and instead let her go on her own recognizance. Assistant District Attorney Olivia Mittman has also said in court they have video of Randal-Pizarro subway surfing on the top of a train. How has she not been banned from the transit system? What a waste of police time and resources. What an unnecessary ongoing menace to MTA workers (what ever happened to the promise 'assaulting MTA New York City Transit subway personnel is a felony punishable by up to 7 years in prison' written on signs all over?) How much travel has she personally disrupted? And what a disservice to Randall-Pizarro herself. An 18-year-old should not be enabled to produce such an extensive criminal record in her first year of adulthood. There's really no justification for this suffocating leniency. 5 Randall-Pizarro says she found an idle subway car at the Broadway station in Astoria. Wikipedia There should be consequences for your actions, and opportunities to learn from them. Unfortunately, the only lesson learned here is: do what you want, and even if you get caught, and it won't catch up with you. Especially since the pandemic, our culture has adopted an all-out hostility towards the justice system and consequences being doled out as they are intended by law. We've been told that crime is the product of social constructs and systems of oppression, and that it is merciful to shield its perpetrators from any consequences. 5 Justine Randall-Pizarro's cases will all be consolidated into one, according to the DA. facebook/ebelliousQueenTina But it's plain to see this utopian world where crimes are forgiven and everything is fine and dandy is simply a fantasy. Recidivism is real, and consequences are what keep a society from succumbing to lawlessness. On August 5, Randall-Pizarro was arrested for skipping out on a court appearance and hauled before court, where all her cases are now consolidated into a charge of felony burglary and misdemeanor reckless endangerment. Her bail was set at $50,000 and she is being held in the women's jail at Rikers. The court has also ordered a mental health evaluation, after an earlier one expired. Toxic empathy has allowed Randall-Pizarro to continue this self-destructive spiral. And it also put MTA workers and innocent travelers at unnecessary risk, too. Hopefully finally facing justice and getting help will be the wake up call she needs.
Boston Globe
20 hours ago
- Boston Globe
They cleaned subways during COVID-19 pandemic
Now, Baez and more than 450 other subway cleaners will split $3 million in back pay, after a multiyear investigation by the city comptroller found that they were grossly underpaid. The workers, who were employed by two private cleaning companies, earned around 25 percent less than they were owed, said Brad Lander, the city comptroller. His office sets the prevailing wage, or the typical rate, for certain types of public work. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The cleaners made $16 to $18 an hour on average in the first years of the pandemic, without supplemental benefits, when $20 to $21 an hour was standard, Lander said. Minimum wage at the time was $15 an hour. Advertisement Lander's office sued the cleaning companies, LN Pro Services and Fleetwash, last year for failing to meet the standard. On Tuesday, he announced settlements that could net the workers an average of more than $6,600 in back pay, depending on their length of service, with some cleaners expected to receive more than $20,000. 'These 452 workers risked their health and safety and their lives to clean subway cars, to give New Yorkers confidence that they could ride them in our darkest hour,' Lander said. 'They deserve to be protected and not cheated.' Advertisement The bulk of the money will be paid by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state agency that runs the subway and hired the cleaning companies, the comptroller's office said. John McCarthy, the chief of policy and external relations at the MTA, said the transit authority did not acknowledge any intentional wrongdoing by the contractors but would not further discuss the settlements. During the pandemic's darkest days, the cleaners were classified as essential workers, or those whose jobs were critical for the functioning of society, including medical workers, grocery store clerks, and laborers who kept infrastructure such as the subway up and running. As many other New Yorkers safely worked from home — and as some left New York City entirely — these essential workers toiled in dangerous conditions. The settlements were reached in late July, after the comptroller's office argued that the contracted cleaners should have been paid at the same scale as cleaning staff assigned to similar public service projects. The cleaning companies signed contracts with the MTA in 2020, when Andrew Cuomo, then the governor, directed the transit agency to disinfect subway cars at a number of train station terminals overnight. It was one of the few times in the famously 24-hour transit service's history that the subway system closed for several hours a day. But some of the contractors said they were paid as little as half as much as MTA employees who did the same work before the pandemic, and often without access to health insurance, at a time when the virus was surging. Advertisement The comptroller's office directed the MTA to pay the workers more at the time, but the transit agency, which was controlled by Cuomo, argued that the contracts fell outside the scope of work that required prevailing wages. James Parrott, a labor expert and a senior adviser at the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School, said the settlements were a long time coming and that the transit agency's delay reflects poorly on Cuomo, who lost the Democratic primary for mayor in June and is now running as an independent candidate in the general election. 'It's indicative of a lack of sufficient regard that Cuomo and the MTA leadership under his administration had for workers' rights across the board,' Parrott said. During a mayoral debate in June, Cuomo and Lander, who also ran in the primary and finished in third place behind Cuomo, briefly clashed over the case. Lander said Cuomo had 'cheated' the subway cleaners, but Cuomo replied that the specifics of their employment and compensation had been determined by the MTA. On Monday, Rich Azzopardi, a spokesperson for Cuomo, said that as governor, Cuomo had been committed to ensuring that people who worked for the state were paid the prevailing wage. 'No one fought harder to pass and uphold prevailing wage laws than Andrew Cuomo,' Azzopardi said. 'If they were doing work for the MTA, workers have to be paid prevailing wage and must be paid every penny they are owed.' For Baez, who stopped cleaning subways after her contract was not renewed, the settlements bring some closure. Baez, who lives in Queens and is originally from the Dominican Republic, said she had paired her shifts as a subway cleaner with a job as a home attendant to make ends meet. Advertisement While working as a cleaner, she was also dealing with cervical cancer, and the fear of catching COVID-19 was constant, she said. Baez contracted the virus early in the pandemic and missed a month of work. The workers will receive their share of the settlement funds by the end of November, said Chloe Chik, a spokesperson for the comptroller. Although she does not know how much money she will receive, Baez welcomed the news. 'Whatever it is,' she said, 'we deserve it.' This article originally appeared in
New York Post
2 days ago
- New York Post
If Eric Adams gets ousted in November, say goodbye to progress on NYC subway safety
Mayor Eric Adams deserves a cheer for 'Subway Safety Plan' wins, but making the transit system truly safe will mean getting a lot more help to Gotham's seriously mentally ill. On Monday, Adams announced that the city has placed 3,500 onetime 'street' homeless, including 1,000 pulled from the subways, into permanent housing since 2022. It looks like Adams' efforts, combined with Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch's emphasis on quality-of-life policing, are paying off: MTA officials just announced drops in transit-system crime, including a 16.7% dip in robberies and a 9.3% fall in felony assaults, comparing July 2025 to July 2024. Advertisement Then again, the subways saw a 19% spike in felony assaults in 2025's first quarter. And straphangers still have good reason to be skittish: On Saturday, a screaming maniac shoved a man onto the tracks at the No. 1 50th Street station for no apparent reason; an hour later, another unhinged man stabbed another man in the neck at an East Village station after the two got into a fight. The city has a lot more dangerously unwell vagrants to get out from underground and into treatment, in other words — and could use continued state reforms to make that easier. Advertisement Mayor Adams and Gov. Hochul won some expanded standards for involuntary commitment this year, but the leading mayoral candidates have other priorities. Zohran Mamdani even wants to convert subway retail spaces into homeless-outreach centers, which would mean more emotionally disturbed people wandering the system. Forcing unwilling people into treatment sends progressives into conniptions, but true compassion means not letting the seriously mentally ill resist the help they desperately need. Advertisement Adams and Tisch have made some hard-earned strides, but the gains are fragile and unlikely to survive a progressive victory in November. If Adams gets voted out of office, watch for transit crime to balloon again.
