Body camera footage released of U.Md. pepper spray incident

WASHINGTON — The University of Maryland has released body camera footage from a May 21 incident where pepper spray was deployed as police tried to break up a large graduation party.

Authorities say it began with what later turned out to be a false 911 call about a fight with a weapon at the party at an apartment at the Courtyards Apartment complex off of University Boulevard.

Two officer body camera videos were released by the university from the party made up of primarily African-Americans.

The first video (shown below) shows officers speaking with a group of people. One person tells the responding officers that there is fighting at the party as another tells officers that they saw someone with a baseball bat.

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