In the midst of a tense local and national discussion on police brutality and racism, two huge bombs have just been dropped.
Firstly, retired Baltimore police officer Michael A. Wood Jr. just unloaded a barrage of accusations of police misconduct and brutality on his Twitter page.
Here’s one:
CCTV cameras turning as soon as a suspect is close to caught.
— Michael A. Wood Jr. (@MichaelAWoodJr) June 24, 2015
Here’s another:
Punting a handcuffed, face down, suspect in the face, after a foot chase. My handcuffs, not my boot or suspect
— Michael A. Wood Jr. (@MichaelAWoodJr) June 24, 2015
And another:
I don’t remember details of any particular person getting illegally searched, it was every day.
— Michael A. Wood Jr. (@MichaelAWoodJr) June 24, 2015
There are more here. Some of the tweets are graphic.
At the same time, Vice News reported that federal officials determined the “credible threat” of a city-wide truce among Baltimore gangs to “take out” police officers was, in fact, “non-credible” after interviewing the unnamed source of the information.
