Jarrettsville Fire Company Removes Cop From Volunteer Roster

JARRETTSVILLE, MD — Suspended Baltimore police officer Robert A. Parks has been removed as a volunteer with the Jarrettsville Volunteer Fire Company in Harford County.

JVFC president John Cooney confirmed Parks' status as inactive to WBFF. Parks had been with the Baltimore County Police Department since 2020. He was suspended and placed on administrative duty by the police department after a viral video showed him attempting to run over a man with his police cruiser.

"First, I saw it, I thought it was AI, I honestly did," Baltimore City's police commissioner, Richard Worley, said during a quarterly consent decree hearing. "I thought, because you can do so many things with AI. We had to make sure the video was real.

"It is not what we want our officers doing, definitely not what we've been training them to do," Worley continued. "The best thing we can do is what we've been doing, which is be transparent. We saw it. We don't like it. We did something about it. We suspended the officer, and we're going to hold the officer accountable for his actions."