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BALTIMORE - A South Baltimore man Monday filed charges against a Baltimore police officer for what attorneys are calling a clear case of police brutality, captured on a police surveillance camera.
Kollin Truss, the defendant, was arrested on June 15 after an altercation with a city police officer. Truss, 32, was charged with assaulting Officer Vincent Cosom and Stephanie Coleman, identified in court records as Truss then-girlfriend.
Cosom noted in his police report that Truss was loitering outside of a liquor store in the 500 block of E. North Ave. at about 1:40 a.m. Cosom wrote that he asked Truss to leave. Truss then walked into the store and shouted an obscenity and a threat at the police officer, according to Cosoms account of the incident.
Truss and Coleman left the liquor store and started walking across the street to a bus stop. Cosom said he observed Truss push her three times, according to the report.
When they got to the corner of Greenmount and North Ave they began to argue again drawing a large crowd around them, Cosom wrote. While I was crossing the street at 500 E North Ave. to stop [the] argument I observed the unknown black male pushed [sic] the female with open hands three times.
At this time I went to place the male under arrest he got into a fighting stance and clenched his first. Me and the male got into a physical altercation due to me [sic] in fear for my safety and I received a punch to the body, Cosom continued in the report, transcribed verbatim.
Truss was arrested, although his assault and resisting arrest charges were later dropped.
On Monday, attorneys Ivan Bates and Tony Garcia filled a suit against Cosom, alleging the officer assaulted their client. Theyre seeking $5 million for damages. Hear more from Truss' attorneys: Bates said police surveillance video, obtained by the Office of the Public Defender, shows the officer attacking Truss when his head was down, after Coleman pulls Truss away from the liquor store and across the street.
Bates said Cosom sucker punched his client in the face and began repeatedly punching him while another officer held Truss right arm, rendering him defenseless.
A copy of the surveillance video was screened for members of the media Monday.
A Baltimore police spokeswoman said the department would launch an internal investigation into the incident.
We are aware of the allegations that have been made in reference to an incident on June 15, 2014 at 1:40am in the 500 block of E. North Avenue, Lt. Sarah Connolly, a department spokeswoman, wrote in an email. The Internal Affairs Division is conducting a thorough investigation and is asking that anyone with any information or evidence pertaining to this incident to come forward and please call 410-396-2300.
Officer Vincent Cosom has been a member of the department for over 6 years and is assigned to the Neighborhood Patrol Bureau, she continued.
BALTIMORE - A South Baltimore man Monday filed charges against a Baltimore police officer for what attorneys are calling a clear case of police brutality, captured on a police surveillance camera.
Kollin Truss, the defendant, was arrested on June 15 after an altercation with a city police officer. Truss, 32, was charged with assaulting Officer Vincent Cosom and Stephanie Coleman, identified in court records as Truss then-girlfriend.
Cosom noted in his police report that Truss was loitering outside of a liquor store in the 500 block of E. North Ave. at about 1:40 a.m. Cosom wrote that he asked Truss to leave. Truss then walked into the store and shouted an obscenity and a threat at the police officer, according to Cosoms account of the incident.
Truss and Coleman left the liquor store and started walking across the street to a bus stop. Cosom said he observed Truss push her three times, according to the report.
When they got to the corner of Greenmount and North Ave they began to argue again drawing a large crowd around them, Cosom wrote. While I was crossing the street at 500 E North Ave. to stop [the] argument I observed the unknown black male pushed [sic] the female with open hands three times.
At this time I went to place the male under arrest he got into a fighting stance and clenched his first. Me and the male got into a physical altercation due to me [sic] in fear for my safety and I received a punch to the body, Cosom continued in the report, transcribed verbatim.
Truss was arrested, although his assault and resisting arrest charges were later dropped.
On Monday, attorneys Ivan Bates and Tony Garcia filled a suit against Cosom, alleging the officer assaulted their client. Theyre seeking $5 million for damages. Hear more from Truss' attorneys: Bates said police surveillance video, obtained by the Office of the Public Defender, shows the officer attacking Truss when his head was down, after Coleman pulls Truss away from the liquor store and across the street.
Bates said Cosom sucker punched his client in the face and began repeatedly punching him while another officer held Truss right arm, rendering him defenseless.
A copy of the surveillance video was screened for members of the media Monday.
A Baltimore police spokeswoman said the department would launch an internal investigation into the incident.
We are aware of the allegations that have been made in reference to an incident on June 15, 2014 at 1:40am in the 500 block of E. North Avenue, Lt. Sarah Connolly, a department spokeswoman, wrote in an email. The Internal Affairs Division is conducting a thorough investigation and is asking that anyone with any information or evidence pertaining to this incident to come forward and please call 410-396-2300.
Officer Vincent Cosom has been a member of the department for over 6 years and is assigned to the Neighborhood Patrol Bureau, she continued.
