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Baltimore Mayor Fires Ex-Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts Amid Homicide Rise
The Baltimore mayor fired the troubled city's police commissioner Wednesday, saying that a recent spike in homicide rates weeks after a black man died of injuries in police custody required a change in leadership.