A Baltimore Police Department officer suspended after being seen on video repeatedly punching a civilian has resigned and is under investigation for assault. Baltimore Interim Police Commissioner Gary Tuggle said on Monday that he accepted the resignation of the officer Sunday night after viewing cell-phone video and the officer's body-camera footage of the violent incident from Saturday. "The public video is extremely disappointing to me," Tuggle said at a press conference. "I don't think that there was any room for the activity that I saw on that, and it is extremely disturbing." The former officer, who graduated from the police academy last year and joined the department in April, is under criminal investigation for suspicion of second-degree assault, said Tuggle, who declined to release the name of the officer. Baltimore attorney Warren Brown said he now represents the man seen being attacked in the video, identified as 26-year-old Dashawn McGrier. "It seems like this officer had just decided that Dashawn was going to be his punching bag," Brown said. "This was a brutal attack that was degrading and demeaning to my client, to that community and to the police department." He said McGrier suffered a fractured jaw and injuries to his nose, ribs and eye socket. McGrier was expected to be released from the hospital on Monday. Tuggle said police are investigating another confrontation in June that occurred between the same officer and McGrier. "First of all, there was no complaint about the June incident," Tuggle said. "The contact between the two resulted in an arrest, and there was no complaint based on that arrest." Tuggle said what was most troubling to him about the video of Saturday's incident was "the repeated head strikes," even after the officer had McGrier on the ground. "If it were borne out of emotion ... we should be trained to never act in an emotional way particularly when it comes to engaging with citizens. It's simply not acceptable," Tuggle said. The department wasted no time in taking action against the officer, suspending him just hours after the beating was caught on video. In the video, the suspect can be heard saying "So what? Don't touch me," and the officer immediately starts throwing more than a dozen punches at McGrier, who does not fight back. The officer tackles McGrier onto a stoop and knees him while continuing to punch him. After McGrier is tackled to the ground, he can be seen bleeding from his mouth as the officer and his partner hold him to the ground and arrest him. The second officer, who didn't throw any punches, has been placed on "administrative duties," according to the police department. His name has not been released. Brown said the officer's partner should have intervened to stop the attack. "The fact that his colleague has his uniform on, and is his colleague, should not have stood in the way of him trying to intervene and prevent the carnage that we witnessed on video," Brown said. "So he has some responsibility as well." But Tuggle said there were people in the immediate area approaching the officers with "sticks in their hands." The video shows at least one man holding a broom as he approached the officers. "So he had an obligation not only to contain the situation that he had in front of him, but he had an obligation to keep himself safe. That's hugely important," Tuggle said of the officer's partner. Police officials said in a statement that they began receiving videos of the incident "almost immediately" after it took place just before noon on Saturday. According to police, McGrier was approached by officers working on a crime-suppression initiative and asked to provide identification. Police said the situation "escalated" when he refused to show ID. The person filming the video can be heard saying "I got all that, don't worry about it." McGrier was placed under arrest but not charged with any crime. He was released from custody to be taken to a hospital by ambulance. Tuggle said he has "zero tolerance" for the officer's behavior. The state attorney was also contacted, Tuggle said. "While I have an expectation that officers are out of their cars, on foot, and engaging citizens, I expect that it will be done professionally and constitutionally," Tuggle said. "I have zero tolerance for behavior like I witnessed on the video. Officers have a responsibility and duty to control their emotions in the most stressful of situations." Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh also reacted to the video on Twitter, writing: "I have seen the very disturbing video of an encounter between a Baltimore City police officer and Baltimore City resident and have demanded answers and accountability." ABC News' Stephanie Wash and Quinn Owen contributed to this report.<doc-sep>A police officer in Baltimore has resigned after a video emerged showing him repeatedly punching a man and pinning him on the sidewalk, the Police Department said. The department said in a message on Twitter late on Sunday that the interim commissioner, Gary Tuggle, had accepted the officer’s resignation. It said the officer’s partner during the episode had been assigned to administrative duties. On Monday, Commissioner Tuggle said at a news conference that the department and state attorney’s office had opened a criminal investigation into the officer’s actions. The video, which was taken by bystanders and lasts about 30 seconds, shows the officer pushing the man, who is against a wall, in the chest, and then punching him repeatedly in the head before pinning him on the sidewalk. The commissioner described it as “extremely disappointing.” “I don’t think there was any room for the activity that I saw,” he said.<doc-sep>Crime & Safety Officer Resigns After Punching Man On Street: Baltimore Police Police said one officer resigned and another is on administrative duty during the criminal investigation into an altercation in Baltimore. Reply BALTIMORE, MD — The officer captured on video punching a man and throwing him to the ground in Baltimore over the weekend has resigned, officials said. Interim Commissioner Gary Tuggle accepted the resignation from the policeman, according to a statement the Baltimore Police Department issued Sunday night. "The officer involved in yesterday's incident is no longer with the Baltimore Police Department," the statement said. "Interim Commissioner Tuggle has accepted his resignation. The second officer remains on administrative duties. This remains an active criminal investigation." Based on the initial investigation, authorities said two officers were working at 11:45 a.m. on Saturday in the 2500 block of Monument Street when they encountered someone who was familiar to one of the officers. When they approached him again to get his contact information and he would not give his identification, authorities said the situation escalated. The officer who had approached him punched the man multiple times, threw him to the ground and detained him, according to the video. "I'm deeply disturbed by the video that surfaced online earlier today," Tuggle said in a statement Saturday afternoon, announcing the officer had been suspended. "I have zero tolerance for behavior like I witnessed on the video today. Officers have a responsibility and duty to control their emotions in the most stressful of situations." Later Tuggle said a second officer seen on the video had been placed on administrative duties. The man who was injured was provided with medical treatment, and he was not charged, police reported.<doc-sep>
In the footage , which was tweeted by activist DeRay Mckesson, the officer can be seen repeatedly punching a man in the face, tackling him across steps, and pushing him onto the sidewalk, which he pins the man down to as the man bleeds from the face. A Baltimore police officer has resigned from his position Sunday after video footage of him punching and tackling a civilian went viral over the weekend, the city's interim police commissioner said at a press conference Monday. TW: Police Violence This is a video of the @BaltimorePolice reported to be from earlier today. And this is why folks don’t have any faith in the police. @MayorPugh50, what’s your response to this? What is happening with the consent decree? https://t.co/yABsCZDEmq "My preliminary review of particularly the public video is extremely disappointing to me," the commissioner said. "I don’t think there is any room for the activity that I saw on that, and it is extremely disturbing. With that being said, we have accepted that officer’s resignation and we still have a criminal investigation ongoing." Tuggle said that he had also reviewed the officer's body-camera footage of the incident, which he said was "relatively consistent" and declined to go into further details about. A second officer, present during the incident and caught on video, has been placed on administrative leave while the department reviews his conduct, according to Tuggle. The commissioner declined to name the officers. In a statement Saturday, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh said that the city is "working day and night to bring about a new era of community-based Constitutional policing and will not be deterred by this or any other instance that threatens our efforts to re-establish the trust of all citizens in the Baltimore Police Department."