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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Justin Carissimo

Baltimore cop under fire for pulling his gun on crowd at city park

(Noah Scialom/Instagram)

Noah Scialom, a local photographer, caught a Baltimore police officer waving his gun at onlookers during a confrontation on Sunday night.

Mr Scialom spoke with the Baltimore City Paper, saying that the incident was isolated and that the unidentified cop who was waving his gun, was the only officer "being crazy."

"I can only imagine what would have happened if he had accidentally shot someone — There were people everywhere."

The photographer uploaded the images to his Instagram account and told his followers what he witnessed go down.

“This cop just pulled his gun on a crowd of people that I was standing among, I cannot believe I just saw that...picture is on my other camera…”

“On the left side of the frame, the officer pulled out his service weapon, yelling while he waved the gun around, and what you can't see is that he's pointing it in the direction of a fairly sizable group of people on the hillside of Druid Park, after a glass bottle had been thrown at the group of police officers and shattered on the ground.

"Another officer immediately told him to put his f*cking gun away.”

The City Paper reported that the confrontations between local dirt bike riders and police have become a weekly incident.

The Baltimore police department has not responded to requests for comment by press time.

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