12 arrested in Baltimore protesting police brutality
At least 12 African American protesters have been arrested in Baltimore, Maryland after taking over the city’s municipal building to demonstrate against police brutality and the appointment of a new white police commissioner.
The arrested protesters were part of a larger group of demonstrators trying to block the appointment of Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis during city hall proceedings on Wednesday night.
About three dozen protesters remained in the building after midnight Thursday to continue demonstrating.
Davis was appointed as Baltimore's interim police commissioner in July after the previous commissioner, Anthony Batts, was fired following a rapid rise in murder rates and days of racially-fueled protests and riots in April over the death of Freddie Gray in police custody.
Gray, a 25-year-old unarmed black man, died on April 19, a week after his encounter with 6 officers that left him with grave spinal injuries.
A coalition of civil rights activists has issued a list of 19 demands to Davis and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake regarding how the city and the police department should handle protests.
"We need calm — not escalation. We need to protect life over property," the activists wrote in a statement. "We need to ensure that non-violent protest is permitted. To achieve this, we need agreements and accountability."
Large-scale protests have been held across the US after a series of high-profile incidents of white police officers killing unarmed African-American men, including Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio; Eric Garner in New York City and Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina.
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