The death of a man in Baltimore Police custody in June has been ruled a homicide, the Maryland Chief Medical Examiner’s Office said Thursday.
The decision came just one day after the Maryland Attorney General’s Office released body-worn camera footage of the encounter between 31-year-old Dontae Melton Jr. and Baltimore Police.
The near hour-long incident on June 24 began when Melton approached an officer at a red light and was detained while police waited for a medical unit to arrive…