Hide Transcript Show Transcript

WEBVTT >> HE'S HURTING, AND THAT HISRIBS WAS HURTINGHE SAID THAT HE KICKED HIM ANDEVERYTHING.AND HIS HEAD WAS KIND OF LIKE,YOU KNOW, HURTING.REPORTER: KAREN HALLOWAY ISDESCRIBING THE INJURIES THAT SHESAYS HER GRANDSON DIAMONTEFARRAR RECEIVED WHEN HE WASALLEGEDLY KICKED REPEATEDLY BY ABALTIMORE COUNTY POLICE OFFICER.>> I'M JUST KIND OF FURIOUSABOUT IT, BUT HE JUST KEEPSGETTING IN TROUBLEREPORTER: POLICE SAY THAT FARRARWAS DRIVING A STOLEN CAR ONJANUARY 25, WHEN HE CRASHEDWHILE TRYING TO GET AWAY FROMOFFICERS AT THE INTERSECTION OFLIBERTY ROAD AND MILFORD ROAD.ACCORDING TO INVESTIGATORS,FARRAR TRIED TO RUN.POLICE EVENTUALLY CAUGHT UP WIHIM WHILE A BALTIMORE CITY, POLICE HELICOPTER, THAT WASASSISTING WITH THEINVESTIGATION, RECORDED FROMABOVE.BALTIMORE COUNTY POLICE AREN'TRELEASING THE VIDEO, BUTSPOKESPERSON SHAWN VINSONDESCRIBED IT.>> HE STOPPED RUNNING, TURNEDTOWARD THE OFFICER, AND STARTEDTO GET ON THE GROUND TOSURRENDER TO THE OFFICER.ONCE THE SUSPECT WAS ON THEGROUND, THE OFFICER CAME UP TOHIM AND KICKED HIM, AND THEN INTHE PROCESS OF ARRESTING HIM,KICKED HIM SEVERAL MORE TIMEREPORTER: 29-YEAR-OLD OFFICERCHRISTOPHER SPIVEY IS CHARGEWITH SECOND DEGREE ASSAULT. POLICE SAY HE'S BEEN SUSPENDEDWITH PAY PENDING THE OUTCOME OFTHE INVESTIGATIODEAMONTAE FARRAR IS IN POLICECUSTODY, FACING SEVERAL CHARGESIN THE CASE.HIS GRANDMOTHER SAYS THAT SHE'SDISAPPOINTED IN THE CHOICES HE'SMADE, BUT ALSO THINGS TH-- THINKS THE OFFICER WENT TOOFAR, AND SHOULD BE PUNISHED.>> I'M JUST GLAD THAT HE IS, SOHE WON'T DO IT TO THE NEXT KID.REPORTER: WHEN OUR OFFICERS SEEANOTHER OFFICER DOING WRONG, WEWANT THEM TO COME FORWARD, ANDTHAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED INTHIS CASREPORTER: INVESTIGATORS SAYBALTIMORE CITY POLICE FORWARDEDTHE VIDEO TO THE BALTIMORECOUNTY INTERNAL AFFAIRS UNIT THEFOLLOWING DAY.

Advertisement Baltimore County police officer charged with assault Officer Christopher Spivey, 29, charged in connection with police pursuit Share Shares Copy Link Copy

A Baltimore County police officer assigned to the Woodlawn precinct has been charged with second-degree assault in connection with an incident on Jan. 25. Police said Officer Christopher M. Spivey, 29, a nearly nine-year veteran of the department, was served with a summons Monday morning. The Baltimore County Police Department Internal Affairs Section began an investigation after the Baltimore City Police Department's Internal Affairs Section reached out on a possible report of an assault by a Baltimore County police officer witnessed by crew members of BPD's Foxtrot helicopter as they assisted with a vehicle pursuit on Jan. 25. The pursuit stemmed from a report of a stolen vehicle at 10:40 a.m. Jan. 25 at the Wegmans grocery store at 10100 Reisterstown Road in Owings Mills. Officers working the Liberty Road corridor saw the stolen vehicle, a 2003 Volvo, driving along Liberty Road near Milford Mill Road, police said. The vehicle fled at a high rate of speed when officers attempted to stop it, and the pursuit ended when the stolen vehicle crashed near the intersection of Liberty and Milford Mill roads, police said. Officials said video from the Foxtrot helicopter provided to Baltimore County police shows that the suspect, later identified as Diamontae Tyquan Farrar, 20, of Baltimore, ran from the crashed Volvo, and engaged officers in a prolonged foot pursuit. Eventually, Farrar was apprehended by the responding officers. One officer, determined through investigation to be Spivey, ran up to the suspect and kicked him several times. "He stopped running, turned toward the officer and started to get on the ground to surrender to the officer," Baltimore County police spokesman Shawn Vinson said. "Once the suspect was on the ground the officer came up to him and kicked him and then in the process of arresting him, kicked him several more times " "His ribs was hurting," Karen Holloway, Farrar's grandmother said. "He said that he kicked him and everything . And his head was kind of like, you know, hurting. I'm just kind of furious about it, but he keeps getting in trouble." Spivey will be suspended with pay, per departmental regulations. Police said the Foxtrot video will not be released. It is part of an ongoing investigation and is essential to the defendant's right to a fair trial and an impartial jury, police said. "When our officers see another officer doing wrong, we want them to come forward, and that's exactly what happened in this case," Vinson said.