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BALTIMORE -- The Baltimore mayor fired the troubled city s police commissioner Wednesday, saying that a recent spike in homicide rates weeks after a black b stanley cup lack man died of injuries in police custody required a change in leadership.Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake thanked Police Commissioner Anthony Batts for his service and announced that she was appointing Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Davis as interim commissioner. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, right, speaks at a news conference with interim Police Commission air max 1 er Kevin Davis on July 8, 2015. CBS We need a change, Rawlings-Blake told a news conference. This was not an easy decision but it is one that is in the best interest of Baltimore. The people of Baltimore deserve better and we re going to get better. The firing comes 2 1/2 months after the city broke out into riots following the death of Freddie Gray, who died in April of injuries he received in police custody. Six police officers have been criminally charged in Gray s death.After the violence, arrests in the city plummeted and the city s homicide rate spiked. The most recent violence happened Tuesday night, when gunmen jumped out of two vans and fired at a group of people a few blocks from an urban university campus, killing three people. A fourth person sought treatment for a g nike dunk unshot wound to the buttocks a |
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