B-More Police Get Buck Wild at a Festival-Reports of brutality are probed
Thursday, June 3, 2004 at 04:32AM
TheSpook
Baltimore police
officials have launched an internal investigation
after reports of police brutality
last weekend at the conclusion of the annual
SoWeBo Festival.Witnesses who attended Sunday's music
and arts celebration said they saw police
officers use a stun gun on a man and
throw a pregnant woman to
the ground, an action that they said caused
her to hemorrhage. They also said
police dragged a middle-aged woman
by her hair. [more]
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