Maryland's independent police investigation law survived its first test — but process not without growing pains - Baltimore Sun

When the unit within the Maryland attorney general’s office that investigates police shootings got a call last Saturday afternoon, officials released a collective groan.

There was another tragedy, and it happened in Harford County, where Republican Sheriff Jeff Gahler had long made clear that he disagreed that state law gave the attorney general’s office authority to conduct a probe into police-involved fatalities as the exclusive investigator.

Gahler had written a series of letters to Democratic Attorney General Brian Frosh’s office, including one in November that proclaimed the sheriff’s office would not “stand down” in the event of a death involving a deputy. His correspondence foreshadowed what transpired last weekend after his deputies shot and killed John R. Fauver at a Forest Hill shopping center.

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