Baltimore policeman charged with murder of Freddie Gray Police officer charged with second-degree murder of Gray, with five others to face other charges, state's attorney says
Police officer charged with second-degree murder of Gray, with five others to face other charges, state's attorney says.
Baltimore policeman charged with murder of Freddie Gray
Police officer charged with second-degree murder of Gray, with five others to face other charges, state's attorney says.
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Baltimore police officer has been charged with the second-degree murder
of Freddie Gray, while five other officers will face criminal charges
over his arrest and death, the city's chief prosecutor has said.
Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore's state's attorney, said on Friday that all
six officers involved in Gray's arrest would face criminal charges
after failing to provide medical attention to the 25-year-old black man.
Mosby said warrants had been issued for the arrest of the officers
charged in the case, in addition to charges of murder and manslaughter,
charges include assault, misconduct and false imprisonment.
The prosecutor said the switchblade officers accused Gray of
illegally carrying clipped inside his trouser pocket was in fact a legal
knife, and no justification for his arrest.
Mosby said the Maryland chief medical examiner ruled Gray's death as
murder and that his spinal injuries occurred while he was riding without
restraints in the van.
"No one is above the law," Mosby said at a news conference.
Gray's death on April 19, a week after his arrest, is the latest
flashpoint in a national outcry over the treatment of African-Americans
and other minority groups by US law enforcement.
After a night of rioting in Baltimore on Monday, protests spread to
other major cities in a reprise of demonstrations last year set off by
police killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, New York and
elsewhere.
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