>On March 13 a citizen contacted The Baltimore Banner, passing along a story from someone who witnessed something concerning involving the Maryland Capitol Police: a young kid tasered by an officer while lying on the ground near Baltimore’s State Center government office complex, they said.
A witness, who works in the area where the incident took place and asked to remain anonymous because they worried about retribution, later described seeing a group of young men running around and talking to each other loudly. She estimated they were 12- or 13-years-old, maybe a couple of them a little older than that.
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>A few minutes later, she heard a boy yelling, “Get off me, stop!” She saw him on the ground, on his stomach and with his hands behind his back. She said the incident attracted the attention of others.
“I saw the officer hovering over him, heard a pop, and realized the officer had tased him,” she said. “He was laying on his stomach, he had his hands back behind him, and he was a child.”
The Banner sought to get more information from the Maryland Capitol Police, a police agency that falls under the state Department of General Services and whose officers watch over government facilities.
After two weeks, the agency has said little — and said the Attorney General’s Office was telling them not to, citing laws that require secrecy around juvenile court proceedings.