TOWSON, Md. — Family and friends of Samuel Brown gathered outside Baltimore County Police Headquarters in Towson on Friday, demanding the officer-involved in an encounter that led to Brown’s death be fired and criminally charged.
Demonstrators gathered in a lot outside police headquarters on a blustery Friday afternoon, calling for Ofc. Derek Hadel, a nine-year veteran of the force, to be prosecuted. Brown, 56, died on February 27, eleven days after he hit the pavement when Hadel punched him during an early morning encounter along Security Boulevard in Woodlawn.
Kamar Brown, Samuel Brown’s son, drove to Maryland from Georgia…