Disturbing video shows Amazon delivery driver running van over shrieking woman, dragging her, then fleeing scene



A disturbing video has surfaced of a delivery driver running over a woman with an Amazon van in Baltimore, Maryland. The video shows the delivery driver fleeing the scene of the alleged hit-and-run as the woman shrieks in agony.

According to police, the incident occurred around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The Amazon driver checks on the woman for about 25 seconds before going back into the van and driving away.

Police named Jerome Allan Young Jr. — a 26-year-old of Baltimore County — as the hit-and-run suspect and issued an arrest warrant against him.

Police said in a statement, "Officers learned that Young suspect struck a 29-year-old female pedestrian with an Amazon-branded work van."

Video from a Ring doorbell camera WBFF-TV obtained shows the moment the van rolls through an intersection while a green traffic light is on. However, a woman was in the crosswalk at the same time.

The van driver hit he woman, and she was dragged several feet before falling under the vehicle. The van driver then stops with the victim underneath the vehicle. The driver then pulls forward and runs over the woman a second time with the rear tires.

The woman is heard crying, shrieking in pain, and begging for help during the incident.

The driver then stops the van, exits the vehicle, and walks to the woman in the middle of the intersection.

The Amazon driver checks on the woman for about 25 seconds before going back into the van and driving away.

A driver behind the Amazon van pulled over, and that female motorist rushed to assist the woman.

The female driver is heard asking, "Are you OK?"

Emergency personnel arrived at the scene shortly after the incident.

A Baltimore Police Department spokesperson told WBFF the victim was transported to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Police added on Thursday afternoon that Young turned himself in at a Baltimore County Precinct and was taken into custody.

Young was transported to the Baltimore Central Booking Intake Facility, where he was charged with negligent and reckless driving. Police noted that "additional charges are pending."

Before Young turned himself in to authorities, Amazon spokesperson Austin Stowe released the following statement: "We were made aware of this terrible incident today. The driver in question has been suspended from delivering on our behalf, and we're working with his employer and law enforcement as they investigate."

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Police SHOOTING: The TRUTH about Tyree Moorehead



Last year, a black man named Tyree Moorehead was shot and killed during a police encounter in Baltimore. So naturally, BLM activists and other progressives are saying it was just another case of police brutality.

What made the entire situation all the more ironic is that while he was alive, Moorehead considered himself an anti-violence activist.

He was a creator of Baltimore’s no shoot zones, places that marked where someone had previously been shot and killed. Moorehead would spray paint an anti-violence message on them in the hopes of preventing additional violence.

Moorehead was then fatally shot by an officer a mere block away from one of those zones.

Apparently, as an activist, Moorehead had suggested that if cities want murderers to stop murdering people, they should actually pay them not to murder.

Seriously. And it gets worse.

Moorehead was a convicted murderer as well. He was 15 when he was put away for second-degree murder and spent 18 years behind bars.

He said he could relate to the shooters.

While this story sounds tragic on its face, Lauren Chen reports that there is more to the story.

Once the body cam footage of Moorehead was released, it confirmed what the police had been claiming from the beginning — and what the media was hesitant to share with the public. Because, of course, they need the activists to activist.

What actually happened was that Tyree Moorehead was killed while he was in the middle of trying to stab a woman in broad daylight, and the responding police officers saved her life.

Chen comments, “There are still people out there who are questioning whether this was an excessive use of force,” despite body cam footage revealing that he was clearly in the middle of trying to stab a woman.

Had the police not gotten involved, her life might have been the one lost.

But of course, activists and Twitter users alike refuse to believe what they can clearly see.

One Twitter user commented “I have seen nothing that warrants that many shots.”

Chen says, “Moral of the story here is that as always, be critical when you see these stories blow up. When you see all these news agencies reporting the same headline, the same spin — because odds are there’s something they’re not telling you.”


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Baltimore mayor announces that mental health ‘counselors’ — instead of police — will be sent to some 911 calls



Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott (D) has announced a new pilot program that will direct some 911 emergency calls to mental health professionals in lieu of notifying law enforcement officials.

What are the details?

According to a report from WJZ-TV, 911 dispatchers in the city receive about 36 emergency mental health calls a day.

Those calls will now go to dedicated mental health counselors trained in conflict resolution.

"Think about the sheer number of hours that our police officers are actually out dealing with something that they're not trained to do, versus being out there going after someone who's committed an armed carjacking," Scott reasoned.

Last week, The Baltimore Sun reported that the program — 911 Diversion Pilot — "aims to connect callers with the most appropriate resources and responses for their needs."

The outlet cited a 2015 study from the Treatment Advocacy Center that found "people with untreated mental illness were more likely to die during an altercation with police officers than those without mental illness."

During a Friday news conference, Scott said, "This pilot is not about defunding the police, but rather acknowledging that police department cannot tackle violent crime, our fire department cannot tackle public health and mental emergencies — and everything else."

When will the program start?

The new program, the station reported, is set to start in June and will reportedly not cost the city any further monies as the city is said to possess existing contracts with all nonprofit organizations providing the counselors' care and participation in the new program.

Baltimore resident Denise Mack says that the violence has to stop.

"[I]t's just getting worse," she told the station. "You've got to go to funerals, got to see your son or nephew lying there. It's bad. I just wish everyone would get themselves together."

Homicides in the embattled city, WJZ reported, have risen 15% year over year.

Activist's solution to lower Baltimore's sky-high murder rate: pay killers not to kill



An activist has presented an unusual proposition for Baltimore to lower the city's sky-high murder rate – pay criminals not to kill people.

According to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Baltimore ranked the fourth-most dangerous American city – behind only Memphis, St. Louis, and Detroit in terms of the highest rates of violent crime in 2019. Since 2016, there have been over 300 homicides each year, spiking in 2019 with 348 murders, and last year there were 335 murders, according to the Baltimore Sun.

To address the tragic crime statistics, Tyree Moorehead wants Baltimore to pay killers not to kill.

"I've talked to these people. I've seen the shooters. It's a small city, I know who the hustlers are," Moorehead said. "I can't stop the shootings, no one in this world has proven to stop the shootings not even the church. But what we can do is put them in compliance."

"I can relate to the shooters, guess what they want? They want money," Moorehead stated.

Moorehead proposed the unorthodox solution to the city's high murder rate is to pay the murderers not to murder.

In 2016, a San Francisco suburb attempted a similar program called "Advance Peace."

The 18-month fellowship, which is privately funded, hires convicted felons to "court" troubled youth. The convicts are given certain goals to attain and can earn out-of-town vacations and up to $1,000 a month if they are able to rehabilitate their criminal ways, according to Fox News. The murder rate in Richmond, California, was cut in half since the fellowship program started, a 2016 report from NPR states.

However, victims rights activists say the controversial program is a slap in the face of victims.

"If I were to find out that the guy who murdered my twin sons was getting a thousand dollars for a promise? I mean, how can you trust? ... I mean, if they kill somebody, they will lie," said Lorrain Taylor, whose twin sons were shot and killed in the nearby city of Oakland when they were just 22.

Former Baltimore Police spokesman T.J. Smith isn't sold on the idea of paying criminals not to commit crimes. "It could make it easier for people to get their hands on guns because they now have an influx of a different level of cash," Smith told FOX 45.

Moorehead can relate to the shooters because when he was 15-years-old, he was jailed for 18 years after a second-degree murder conviction, told WBFF.

After being incarcerated, Moorehead has completely turned his life around. The former gang member started an anti-gun violence campaign in Baltimore, and painted nearly 200 "No Shoot Zones" murals throughout the city as of 2019.

However, Moorehead nearly lost his life in the streets of the city he loves when he was stabbed in the neck in East Baltimore. Moorehead broadcast his near-death experience on Facebook Live, where he told his followers, "I'm losing too much blood. Yo if I die, keep pushing them zones." He then fell to the ground after losing consciousness.

Moorehead survived and continues to push his message of "No Shoot Zones."