Overview
- The Medical Examiner has not determined a medical cause of death even as the manner was classified as homicide.
- The encounter began around 3:30 a.m. on Feb. 16 in Woodlawn during a welfare check for a driver reportedly asleep at the wheel.
- Body-camera video shows Officer Derek Hadel pushing Brown and then throwing punches before Brown fell and struck his head.
- Brown, 56, died on Feb. 27; the Attorney General’s office released about eight minutes of body-worn camera footage on March 4 after family pressure.
- Hadel, a nine-year Baltimore County police veteran, is on administrative leave as the Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division reviews, and Brown’s family is seeking his firing, criminal charges and civil action.