Police killings
2013-2020

Tyrone West

Male, Black

Date of the incident: 7/18/2013

Baltimore, Baltimore City, MD
1300 Kitmore Road

Along with a passenger West was pulled over on a traffic stop by two plainclothes officers in an unmarked car. On a pat-down officers discovered a small amount of cocaine. This caused West to react, and started an extended physical struggle among the three in which the officers accidentally pepper-sprayed themselves. Other police arrived and the beating of West continued after he'd been subdued and handcuffed. He died at the scene.