Baltimore mayor: policeman in spitting case should resign

According to Rose, officers hit the man with a stick and then spit on him, before arresting him. After Evan immediately complies, the cameraman steps behind a parked auto for a moment, and Mesner appears to attack Evan before placing him in handcuffs.

The Baltimore Police Department is investigating an incident in which an officer allegedly spit on a suspect being arrested. The officer is on administrative duty.

The incident occurred at night, so the arrest isn’t clearly visible in the footage but you can see a struggle and in the video you can hear people at the scene yelling that the officer spit on the suspect.

“The video appears to depict the police sergeant spitting on the arrestee”, Davis says in a statement.

“You´re going to be tased”.

Activists opposed to the permanent appointment of Baltimore’s interim police commissioner have occupied City Hall.

The man arrested was charged with second-degree assault and disorderly conduct.

“That is outrageously unacceptable and it directly contradicts the necessary community relationships we are striving to rehabilitate”.

A spokesman for the protesters has said they won’t leave until Davis and the mayor agree to a list of demands.

Six Baltimore police officers are now awaiting trial for their role in his death after an investigation showed Gray sustained a severe neck injury while in the back of a police van with his hands in cuffs and legs restrained.

Protesters took to the streets of Baltimore following Gray’s death on April 19, demanding that police officers be held accountable.