A $30 million lawsuit filed against Baltimore police over a 7-year-old boy who was arrested while sitting on a dirt bike has been transferred to Howard County, angering the city’s branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
“What worries me is that people outside of the city do not have the type of difficult encounters with the police department that people living in the city do,” said Marvin “Doc” Cheatham, the president of the Baltimore chapter of the NAACP. “They don’t confront the same kind of obstacles that we do.”
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