A guy died while being held by police in West Baltimore, which led the Maryland Office of the Attorney General to look into what happened.
Investigators said the guy seemed to be having a mental health crisis on Tuesday, June 24, when an officer tried to hold him down at the intersection of West Franklin Street and North Franklintown Road.
The AG’s Office said the man stopped responding while he was being restrained and waiting for medical help. He was taken to the hospital and declared dead on Wednesday.
There is an investigation going on in the Independent Investigations Division (IID) of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General.
AG: The man passed out while being handcuffed.
Investigators say the man went up to a Baltimore police officer who was in a marked patrol car and stopped at a traffic light.
The man walked into the middle of the road a few times while the cop was talking to him, the AG’s Office says.
Police said the officer tried to restrain the man for his own safety. When more police came, they put him in handcuffs and leg restraints.
Soon after, around 10:30 p.m., the man was responding, according to the police.
The Attorney General’s Office said that the officers had body cameras on them that caught what happened.
Police in West Baltimore shot a woman.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said that on June 25, police in West Baltimore killed a 70-year-old woman who attacked them with a knife.
The woman is said to have lunged at the police officers with the knife before she was shot twice. When they got to the hospital, they said she was dead.
Worley said that police were called to the Mosher Street home because of a mental health emergency.
He said that police tried to arrest her for her own safety, but she wouldn’t listen, so they tased her and then shot her.
Worley said that the house has been called more than 20 times this year, including for mental health emergencies.
“I think this is a state-wide crisis with mental health.” “Unfortunately, too many of them end with violence,” Worley said. “Our training of our officers to get these events under control has been great. Sadly, they weren’t able to calm things down in this case, and tragedy ensued.
As is always the case after a police killing, the Maryland Attorney General’s Office is looking into it.
