NAACP hammers Dixon, Hamm

Community activist Darren Mohammad angrily stared down Baltimore Police Commissioner Leonard Hamm and demanded, “How can these officers still have badges after arresting a child? They are thugs in uniforms.”

And Mohammad wasn?t alone in his hostility, as a roomful of city residents confronted Mayor Sheila Dixon and Hamm Tuesday night at the monthly meeting of the Baltimore Chapter of the NAACP in West Baltimore. The center of this storm was last week?s highly publicized arrest of Gerard Mungo Jr., a 7-year-old boy who taken into custody, handcuffed and fingerprinted for sitting on his dirt bike.