A Baltimore police sergeant trying to make a visitors cease was struck by the automobile he was attempting to drag over dragged roughly two blocks Tuesday night time, CBS Baltimore studies.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison mentioned the driving force accelerated, dragging the sergeant and hitting one other automobile alongside the way in which.
The sergeant was rushed to the College of Maryland R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Heart, whose chief doctor, Dr. Thomas Scalea, informed reporters he is critically in poor health and on full life assist.
Witnesses informed CBS Baltimore they noticed the sergeant attempting to begin the visitors cease then get dragged. They mentioned they ran as much as him as he was mendacity on the street and all they may see was an individual surrounded by blood.
The Baltimore police union is describing the incident as a "vehicular assault."
Officers in tactical gear and different officers shut down a number of blocks within the space after the incident.
A caravan of roughly 10 police cruisers was seen heading to the hospital alongside the ambulance carrying the sergeant.