Bodycam video shows Baltimore cop holding gun to restrained man’s head during arrest

A Baltimore man is alleging excessive force against several Baltimore City police officers — with one holding a gun to his head during an arrest last May.

It comes after the court case against him was dismissed. The police department said its Public Integrity Bureau’s Special Investigations Response Team began investigating immediately after the incident, and the internal investigation is ongoing.

The arrest happened in the 1900 block of East Oliver Street. Detectives said they were looking for an armed robbery suspect. Jaemaun Joyner said he was filming a video for a memorial of a friend.

Bodycam video shows police arriving to the scene in East Baltimore as one officer attempts to hold 24-year-old Joyner and place him in custody.

Joyner’s attorneys allege excessive force because of the takedown and the way officers pinned Joyner to the sidewalk.

In the video, the officers yelled at Joyner as they attempted to put him in handcuffs. The footage further shows plainclothes Baltimore Police detectives restraining him by all of his limbs, then another detective gripping him on the throat and holding a gun to his head for several seconds.

Court records indicate officers recovered a handgun, eight live 22 caliber rounds, a magazine and a powder substance which they suspect is heroin.

“The Maryland State Police Gun Center advised that Mr. Joyner does not have any prohibiting factors which disqualify them from possessing a firearm… The investigation for the armed robbery is still ongoing,” the charging document read.

Prosecutors dismissed the case against Joyner on Monday.