Members of a City Council subcommittee voted 3-2 in favor of appointing Davis, who will be paid $200,000 per year to serve in the role until 2020.
After hearing of the decision, a rump of the demonstrators, who had gathered at City Hall earlier on Wednesday in a bid to postpone the hearing, decided to remain in the building, chanting “All night, all day, we will fight for Freddie Gray!” and “No justice! No peace!”
Police cajoled some of the group to vacate the premises, but as the clock ticked past 4 a.m. more than two dozen policemen surrounded and began to arrest the activists who wouldn’t go home.
“If we don’t get it shut it down”: Protesters disrupt Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis Appointment Hearing.
