ACLU Demands Full Investigation In Baltimore Police Involved Death

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland connected Tuesday demanded a full, transparent probe into the police-involved decease of a northeast Baltimore resident.

Around 9:18 p.m. Sunday, constabulary said a telephone came successful for an battle and idiosyncratic who was armed. The section said they helped 2 radical get retired of the location safely but 1 idiosyncratic inactive wrong was perchance having a behavioral wellness situation and equipped with a weapon.

The section called successful specialized teams that contacted that person, but astir six hours aft the archetypal call, the section said the idiosyncratic showed up astatine the doorway and fired their weapon.

Deputy Commissioner Sheree Briscoe said astatine that point, astatine slightest 1 serviceman opened fire, striking and sidesplitting the person.

“All camera footage disposable indispensable beryllium released to the public. And immoderate officers engaged successful misconduct indispensable beryllium held accountable,” the ACLU tweeted.

The enactment said Baltimore City and each different large jurisdictions should person afloat funded intelligence wellness situation teams that tin beryllium deployed to those successful crisis, adjacent erstwhile individuals are armed.

A intelligence wellness mobile situation squad did not respond to this telephone due to the fact that a limb was involved.

“The mobile situation teams are not typically the ones that are archetypal responders erstwhile there’s a limb involved. When there’s a limb involved, it would ever necessitate the request to person the constabulary involved. Our squad is not typically the pb for that due to the fact that simply of the heightened information that is progressive erstwhile determination are weapons,” said Adrienne Breidenstine with Behavioral Health System Baltimore.

“Again, we spot clip and again equipped achromatic people’s lives being valued much by constabulary and surviving adjacent progressive shooter situations,” the ACLU tweeted.

The unfortunate successful the shooting has not yet been identified.

Baltimore Police killed a antheral connected 6000 artifact of Alta Ave. successful Northeast Baltimore. There indispensable beryllium a afloat probe that is transparent to the community. All camera footage disposable indispensable beryllium released to the public. And immoderate officers engaged successful misconduct indispensable beryllium held accountable.

— ACLU of Maryland (@ACLU_MD) August 10, 2021

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