A Black police officer from Maryland says he was fired from the Prince George’s County Police Department in retaliation after he refused to arrest a Black man for recording the violent arrest of his mother, who was being abused for flipping off a white cop in 2019.

Mohamed Magassouba, who was fired in 2021 and is now the police chief of the nearby Capitol Heights Police Department, filed a lawsuit against several Prince George’s County police officers in 2023, alleging racial discrimination and creating a hostile work environment for the African immigrant.

The trial began this week and may set a precedent for police accountability, his attorneys told WUSA-9.

“They tried to coerce him into changing his witness statement that he made that night, to justify the use of force that is reflect

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