Plainclothes agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shot a man who pointed a “Dirty Harry”-type revolver at them about two miles from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, police said. That, according to the Baltimore police, is what happened in Baltimore on Friday, when three plainclothes federal agents realized that they were about to be robbed and took action. At a street-corner news conference, Davis said the agents wounded one man who was carrying a high powered revolver. According to the Baltimore police chief, three plainclothes agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were seated in a pickup truck, in west Baltimore, where they were conducting an undercover operation. In elaborating, he said, two men “rapidly approached” and were “aiming guns” at the agents.

Source: Washington Post May 29, 2017 05:10 UTC