Baltimore City's police commissioner, Richard Worley, spoke during a quarterly consent decree hearing about a viral video that showed an officer driving aggressively and attempting to run over a person with his cruiser.

That officer, identified as Robert A. Parks, has been suspended. He has been a member of the police department since 2020.

"First, I saw it, I thought it was AI, I honestly did," Worley said. "I thought, because you can do so many things with AI. We had to make sure the video was real."

The department has opened an internal investigation and is reviewing the body-worn camera from that viral incident.

Park's police powers are now suspended, and he is currently working in an administrative capacity, according to the department.

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