Schmoke did, however, in his first news conference following O’Malley’s win, question how O’Malley might deliver on his promise of zero-tolerance policing, and on the implications of such a policy. “My concern would be a dramatic increase in cases of police abuse,” Schmoke said. Schmoke’s concern would prove prescient nearly two decades later, after the death of a twenty-five-year-old Black man named Freddie Gray while in police custody led to a week of protest in Baltimore. The U.S. Justice Department launched an investigation into the Baltimore Police Department in the wake of the protests.
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