Charges are appropriate, and it’s a crying shame that Maryland abolished the death penalty last year. If those cops get found guilty, it’s a shame they can’t spend the last few minutes of their lives in a little glass room, choking on a cloud of gas.
The Baltimore PD doesn’t only do it to people with criminal records and knives. They did it to a couple (the lady was a librarian at Johns Hopkins) to retaliate for them recording police responding to a noise complaint: