it seems that every day brings more curious and ignorant cop stories and this one is a large one, and don't forget to note what the cops annual salary is;

Baltimore, MD — The Baltimore police department is arguably one of the most corrupt and violent departments in the country. From planting guns and drugs to shooting innocent people, the BPD is constantly in the news for all the wrong reasons. As the following case illustrates, all this negative press doesn’t seem to serve as any kind of deterrent for future criminal behavior—especially considering that this criminal is the city’s highest paid employee.

Now, the city’s highest paid employee will have to use some of his quarter of a million dollar salary to pay for his $200,000 bail. On Friday, Sgt. Ethan Newberg, 49, was criminally charged with forcibly arresting a bystander, false imprisonment and misconduct. He immediately paid his $200,000 bail and walked out of jail.

As the Baltimore Sun reports, attorney Joe Murtha said Sgt. Ethan Newberg, 49, must return all firearms he has and must surrender his passport.

A trial date was scheduled for April 21 for Newberg, Murtha said. “It was the smoothest bail review I’ve had for a while,” Murtha told The Sun.

Murtha said he was “very grateful” that Newberg was allowed to continue to await trial from home, and not in jail.

“I do believe it was very fair,” he said of the decision.

As TFTP originally reported in June, Sgt. Newberg was arrested and charged with assault, false imprisonment and misconduct for his actions on May 30th. However, all those charges were dropped as prosecutors pursued a broader superseding indictment. This month, Newberg was slapped with an additional 32 counts of false imprisonment, assault and misconduct in office based on a “pattern and practice of harassment and intimidation” that was identified by prosecutors after viewing past body camera footage from the incident in May.........https://thefreethoughtproject.com/baltimore-cop-charged-32-counts-kidnapping/