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Justin FentonContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun
A Baltimore Police supervisor who works in the unit that trains officers about the Constitution has been arrested and charged with being drunk and disorderly at a strip club in downtown Baltimore, police confirmed.
Police said Sgt. Henrietta Middleton, a 12-year veteran assigned to the Inspector Generalās Office, was charged on criminal citation for being drunk and disorderly.
Officers had been called to Custom House Avenue, outside of Norma Jeanās club on the Block, at around 1:20 a.m. early Sunday for a report of a disorderly patron, police said. When officers arrived, they observed Middleton āacting in a disorderly mannerā and that she āapproached an officer and refused to comply.ā
Middleton ā who earned $125,000 on a base salary of $72,000 in fiscal year 2017, according to salary records ā has been suspended. She could not be reached for comment.
A video recorded by a security officer at another club and posted on Facebook shows a large crowd gathered outside Norma Jeanās, and a woman being struck by a male officer who is in uniform.
Gary Massey, 53, said the woman was Middleton, who was off-duty and not in uniform, and the male officerās response went too far.
āWhat I saw was a man punching a woman full force in the face, like he was brawling with another man,ā Massey said. āIām not saying she wasnāt out of order or being disruptive, but heās clearly stronger than this lady.ā
Police said āentire course of events is under internal investigationā and did not identify the male officer.
The past month and a half has seen a string of embarrassing incidentsinvolving Baltimore Police officers.
An officer was video recorded declining to take action on a citizen report of a man with a gun downtown, then a sergeant was charged with getting into a drunk driving crash while driving a department vehicle.
Then an officer was caught on tape punching a man, and eventually indicted on first-degree assault charges. Another officer was also charged with assault in July in relation to an incident from two years ago.
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Justin FentonContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun
A Baltimore Police supervisor who works in the unit that trains officers about the Constitution has been arrested and charged with being drunk and disorderly at a strip club in downtown Baltimore, police confirmed.
Police said Sgt. Henrietta Middleton, a 12-year veteran assigned to the Inspector Generalās Office, was charged on criminal citation for being drunk and disorderly.
Officers had been called to Custom House Avenue, outside of Norma Jeanās club on the Block, at around 1:20 a.m. early Sunday for a report of a disorderly patron, police said. When officers arrived, they observed Middleton āacting in a disorderly mannerā and that she āapproached an officer and refused to comply.ā
Middleton ā who earned $125,000 on a base salary of $72,000 in fiscal year 2017, according to salary records ā has been suspended. She could not be reached for comment.
A video recorded by a security officer at another club and posted on Facebook shows a large crowd gathered outside Norma Jeanās, and a woman being struck by a male officer who is in uniform.
Gary Massey, 53, said the woman was Middleton, who was off-duty and not in uniform, and the male officerās response went too far.
āWhat I saw was a man punching a woman full force in the face, like he was brawling with another man,ā Massey said. āIām not saying she wasnāt out of order or being disruptive, but heās clearly stronger than this lady.ā
Police said āentire course of events is under internal investigationā and did not identify the male officer.
The past month and a half has seen a string of embarrassing incidentsinvolving Baltimore Police officers.
An officer was video recorded declining to take action on a citizen report of a man with a gun downtown, then a sergeant was charged with getting into a drunk driving crash while driving a department vehicle.
Then an officer was caught on tape punching a man, and eventually indicted on first-degree assault charges. Another officer was also charged with assault in July in relation to an incident from two years ago.
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