Editing Pocomoke City, Maryland (section)

== Controversy ==
Pocomoke City was the subject of a 2019 documentary, ''The Friendliest Town'', which investigated the abrupt and unexplained firing in 2015 of the town's first Black police chief, Kelvin Sewell.<ref>{{Citation|last=Janis|first=Stephen|title=The Friendliest Town on the Eastern Shore|date=2019-10-21|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9038854/|type=Documentary|access-date=2022-02-25|archive-date=February 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220225023356/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9038854/|url-status=live}}</ref> Sewell subsequently filed suit in federal court together with former lieutenant Lynell Green and former detective Franklin Savage, alleging a pattern of "rampant racial discrimination and retaliation" by city, county, and state officials. In 2019, Pocomoke City agreed to settle Sewell and Green's federal lawsuits, and the town entered a consent decree requiring it to reform its policies and procedures around policing.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Pocomoke City agrees to consent decree in settlement with black police officers|language=en-US|work=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pocomoke-city-agrees-to-consent-decree-in-settlement-with-black-police-officers/2019/03/28/1ebe3f58-517c-11e9-a3f7-78b7525a8d5f_story.html|access-date=2022-02-25|issn=0190-8286|archive-date=October 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201016220233/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pocomoke-city-agrees-to-consent-decree-in-settlement-with-black-police-officers/2019/03/28/1ebe3f58-517c-11e9-a3f7-78b7525a8d5f_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>