The Baltimore Police Department has accepted the resignation of an officer after a video surfaced in which he repeatedly punches a man in the face.
The short video that was posted on social media and went viral shows a man with his back against a wall, having an argument with the officer on Saturday morning. Suddenly, the officer starts punching the man later identified as 26-year-old DaShawn McGrier. He strikes him over and over again — more than a dozen times — and McGrier does not appear to fight back.
The officer puts his arm across McGrier’s head and neck and pins him to the ground as another officer looks on. The man’s face appears to be bleeding. McGrier looks shocked and asks the first officer why he did that.
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