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2014 - Baltimore police Officer Vincent Cosom viciously attacked Kollin Truss on June 15 after the two exchanged words. Truss was eventually arrested and charged with assaulting an officer.

“There’s a pattern here. First, these officers are stripping our clients of their dignity, their rights, then charging them with an assault that they themselves have perpetrated.”

Truss’ attorneys said their client is the victim and that Cosom lied on his police report about fearing for his life when it was their client who was in danger. They also claim a police cover-up, saying charges were immediately dropped once the state’s attorney’s office saw the video.

“There was a video from the CitiWatch camera, meaning a Baltimore City police officer was manning the camera, watched the vicious assault on our client and then said absolutely nothing at all,” Bates said.

Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said Cosom remained on the job for three months after the incident because there was a breakdown in communication. Batts said he didn’t find out about what happened until Truss’ attorneys made the video public in September.

But Truss’ attorneys disputed that Wednesday. ”They had the video, they had the facts, they had the officers, and they did absolutely nothing and were going to do absolutely nothing until (the video) showed on every single television”

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just to update you guys on this case, the officer is being charged with second-degree assault, and perjury. the victim is also suing for 35 million dollars.

what’s interesting to me is knowing that video evidence made this progress possible, but our mayor, stephanie rawlings-blake, is against body cameras on police officers.

I hope he gets every damn cent of that $35M.