Overview

• The Independent Investigations Division named Sgt. Joshua Jackson and nine other members of the Baltimore Police Department’s Operations Bureau in the June 24–25 custody death.
• Investigators verified that all involved officers were wearing body-worn cameras and said footage will likely be released within 20 days of the incident.
• A failure in the city’s computer-aided dispatch system prevented any ambulance from responding to repeated requests for medical assistance.
• Officers restrained Melton in handcuffs and leg shackles before driving him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead early on June 25.
• Melton’s family and community advocates are pressing for explanations of the dispatch outage and demanding reforms to Baltimore’s mental health crisis intervention protocols.