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Baltimore police commissioner fired amid increased homicide rate

Xinhua, July 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on Wednesday announced a decision to fire the city' s Police Commissioner Anthony Batts as the city had been seeing more cases of homicide since the start of this year.

In a news release, Rawlings-Blake appointed Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Davis as the interim police commissioner, replacing Batts.

Baltimore was convulsed with rioting in April following the death of Freddie Gray, an young African-American man who suffered a critical spinal injury while in police custody. Six police officers have been criminally charged in Gray's death.

Since the rioting and protests that followed, the city has witnessed a sharp increase in violence, with 155 cases of homicide thus far this year, up 48 percent compared with the same period of last year. Endite