Kenneth Thompson, who heads the monitoring team that is helping implement the police department consent decree, and who helped write the scathing Harlem Park report, went to the scene of Thursday morning’s shooting. For days, across a several block stretch of the neighborhood, people were wrongly stopped, searched and sometimes detained during the investigation, a subsequent report found. The police department’s response to this shooting contrasts sharply with its 2017 lockdown of Harlem Park after the death of city police Detective Sean Suiter. “I ask the citizens of Baltimore, if you do not have information, to just pray.” … We should all take this very personally. “The reality is, men and women do their best job to put on Baltimore Police Department uniforms and go to protect our citizens. But tonight, this is reality,” Mosby said. “There’s been a lot of divisive talk over the past several years around police, around connecting with our community, around violence.
Kreamer said his wife heard several gunshots, Kreamer said, perhaps four or five. Across the street, broken glass littered the parking lot beside the Food Mart shop. Now, he knows it was the officer’s patrol vehicle, smashing through a chain-link fence and careening over a ledge toward the park’s playground.Ī car mirror and other debris were scattered below the park’s jungle gym, together with an instruction sheet for a neck brace. Kevin Kreamer, who lives across the street from Curtis Bay Park, said he heard a loud crash around 2 a.m. They knocked on the doors of homes with cameras perched on windowsills and doorbells, seeking any clues about the crime. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)Īt the shooting scene Thursday, a small group of officers and cadets arrived in vans and searched the area around Pennington Avenue for security cameras.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison stands with Lawanda Sykes, sister of Keona Holley, a Baltimore Police officer who was shot multiple times in Curtis Bay, as she speaks outside of Shock Trauma.