And it only cost us (taxpayers) $75,000… 🤦♂️t.co/PfwA81eU11
— Unbiased Crime Report (@UnbiasedCrime) July 5, 2024
A Baltimore jury awarded $75,000 on Wednesday to a man who was sprayed with tear gas at close range and tackled by police during the 2015 civil unrest following the death of Freddie Gray.
Larry Lomax filed an excessive force lawsuit in Baltimore City Circuit Court in 2016. Video of the incident, taken by a bystander and uploaded online, showed him approaching police after they ordered a crowd to comply with the curfew, yelling and demanding to be arrested.
Lt. Christopher O’Ree, who was commanding a mobile field force, sprayed Lomax with a canister of either pepper spray or tear gas — the parties disputed the substance — after which Sgt. Keith Gladstone took him to the ground and two officers removed him from the intersection when the crowd began throwing bottles.
thedailyrecord.com/2018/01/25/lomax-police-verdict/