Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
If anything, she owed him a raise.
Baltimore mayor fires police commissioner
By The Associated Press
July 8, 2015, 3:10 p.m.
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BALTIMORE, MD – 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 one 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 percent increase over the same period last year.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/14/the-impending-ecosystem-collapse/
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