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The 66-year-old man is already face down, motionless, when the surveillance video clip starts. One of the assailants jumps and stomps on his head. Another punches him in the back, and a third rifles through the man’s pants pockets before they all take off. As it rocketed across Baltimore social media accounts, the 30-second video first sparked anger, and then outrage, when people heard that the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services had released the youngest of two people arrested in connection with the South Madeira Street attack to a guardian.

The D.C. region continues to answer the call for hurricane help in the South. In Montgomery County, a specialized rescue team known as Maryland Task Force 1 is sending a new 45-member team to North Carolina to relieve the first team sent to help with the recovery from Hurricane Helene. The team will take over those who have been helping check on people and bring in supplies, but Montgomery County Fire and EMS Chief Corey Smedley said this outgoing group could end their deployment in Florida, depending on how much damage Hurricane Milton does.

The Anne Arundel County Council passed a bill Monday that will require developers to allocate a portion of new units for moderate-income residents and create more diverse housing types in certain areas, in spite of environmental concerns raised by community members. Known as the Housing Attainability Act, the bill would require new housing developments with 20 or more units to designate 10% of for-sale units and 15% of rental units to be affordable.

Montgomery County Council members voted unanimously Tuesday to use $2 million in supplemental funding to help pay for installing vape detectors in the Maryland county’s public high schools. Ahead of the council’s 11-0 vote, members heard from community members who voiced their support and concerns regarding the issue of vaping and the reliability of the detectors.

The Carroll County Board of Education is set to approve construction plans and allocate funds for school projects that will span the next several years, at a public meeting Thursday. The school board typically holds a regular meeting on the second Wednesday of each month, but this month’s meeting was moved to Oct. 10.

The Annual Caw to Action event was focused on ways to help local communities across Eastern Shore Maryland. United Way partnered with local agencies to help give back. Victoria Stone, the Program Director for Diakonia, said this was all done to make sure the community gets the care it needs. “In partnership with the Baltimore Ravens and United Way, helping the community take action to help out other agencies such as ourselves, that need to help with resources in the community.”

Members of the region’s transit commission had been talking for more than two hours when an advocate asked Maryland Transit Administrator Holly Arnold a question that got everyone’s attention. “Are we at risk — if the draft CTP [Consolidated Transportation Program budget] goes forward, do we have to give back the federal grant?” asked Brian O’Malley, president of the Central Maryland Transportation Alliance.

Urban search and rescue task forces from the D.C. region, supported by National Guard helicopters from Maryland, have rescued dozens in North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, according to mission organizers. “We’ve been primarily conducting water searches, searching rivers and river banks and utilizing our canines,” said Maryland Task Force 1 scene commander Josh Kerwin from the team’s current assignment in Haywood County, North Carolina in a post to X, formerly known as Twitter.