I can only assume that in years past the Baltimore Police Department have experienced difficulty closing the SoWeBo Festival, and consequently ordered the officers to “agressively” close down this years festival. I’m actually okay with that, the Police a difficult job.

But when you beat a pregnant mother of three to the ground, cause her internal bleeding, and detain her for 28 hours, for (as I have been told by eyewitnesses) trying to protect her babies from you, I think there is a chance you went too far.

When beat another man to the ground for telling you to “chill out”, I think there is a chance you went too far.

When you tazar a man four times for apparantly trying to resist arrest, and 50 eyewitnesses come forward and all say the man DID NOT TRY TO RESIST ARREST, which shockingly contradicts your police report (do police often lie in thier police reports?), I think there is a chance you went too far.

And when you drag an old lady by the hair, AGAIN, for trying to protect babies from you, I think there is a chance you went too far.

I’m glad to hear that the case has been taken up by the interal affairs department.

June 3rd article from the Baltimore Sun.

June 4th article from the Baltimore Sun.

Photographs from the First Thursday festivies at Mt. Vernon Place on June 3, 2004.

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