A 24-year veteran with
Baltimore police is charged with assault, false imprisonment and misconduct after Commissioner
Michael Harrison said he wrongfully chased after a man who had criticized the officer’s arrest tactics.
Sgt. Ethan Newberg, 49, a 24-year veteran with the Baltimore Police Department who was the second-highest-paid city employee in fiscal year 2018 after making $243,000, is alleged to have chased after and grabbed a man who had commented on the officer’s arrest tactics while doing a warrant check on the 2300 block of Ashton St. on May 30.
Harrison said Newberg told the department he was in the middle of running a warrant check when a second person “verbally challenged and became combative and aggressive.”
However, Harrison said body camera footage shows otherwise as he said it shows the second man talking to Newberg and then “walking calmly away after offering his opinion that Sgt. Newberg should have not placed the suspect on a wet sidewalk.”
Newberg chased after the man and grabbed him, Harrison said, and a second officer tackled the man and placed him in handcuffs.
