Baltimore Police Launch Investigation Into New Brutality Claim

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore police are investigating the actions of one of their officers after video shows the officer punching a man in the face before his arrest.

Derek Valcourt has the exclusive video, which lasts just about a minute—but some say it shows an officer going too far.

Cell phone video appears to show a city officer trying to move a crowd from in front of a McDonald’s on Howard Street—but the physical confrontation begins when the officer pokes a young man and the man then swats the officer’s hand away.

“What, you got probable cause?” the man asked.

“I’m going to ask you to get out of my face,” the officer replied.

“Don’t touch me!” the man replied."

The young man in the handcuffs is 19-year-old Antonio Moore.

“He punched me for no reason,” Moore said.

But the officer apparently saw it differently. In his statement of probable cause, he wrote Moore “without warning began rapidly advancing towards me in a threatening, hostile manner so I placed my arm out to create a distance and halted his advance.”

“The video shows the proof. I didn’t try to attack the officer,” Moore said.

Moore’s been charged with second degree assault and disorderly conduct. "

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/02/24/baltimore-police-launch-investigation-into-new-brutality-claim/

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1. An "investigation". What do they need to investigate?

The video proves that he lied on his police reports and he should be immediately fired.

It's not the disappearance of the Limburg baby. The "investigation" should take hours, not weeks/months.

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2. Exactly

If anyone should be charged with assault in this case it should be the officer. I just don't get it.