Baltimore mayor fires police commissioner months after riots-New Video

 Baltimore mayor fires police commissioner months after riots-New Video

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced the firing of
Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Anthony Batts Wednesday.
By: The Associated Press, Published on Wed Jul 08 2015

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has fired Police Commissioner Anthony Batts.

Rawlings-Blake
announced the firing in a news release Wednesday afternoon. She said
Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Davis will become interim commissioner.

Rawlings did not give a reason, but the move comes amid a spike in the city’s homicide rate.

Baltimore
was rocked with civil unrest in April after black resident Freddie Gray
died a week after suffering a critical spinal injury in police custody.

Six police officers have been criminally charged in Gray’s death.

Since
the rioting stopped, the city has seen a sharp increase in violence,
with 155 homicides this year, a 48 per cent increase over the same
period last year.