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Baltimore judge sets trials for police in Freddie Gray death case
Source: Reuters
World | Wed Mar 16, 2016 3:59pm EDT
Baltimore judge sets trials for police in Freddie Gray death case
BALTIMORE | BY DONNA OWENS
The trials of six Baltimore police officers charged in connection with Freddie Gray's death last year will resume in May, more than a year after the black detainee died in police custody, a city judge ruled on Wednesday.
Gray's April 2015 death from a broken neck suffered while in the back of a police van came amid a string of police killings of black men across the United States and set off a day of rioting and arson in the majority black city.
Less than a week after that violence, Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby filed charges ranging from assault to second-degree depraved heart murder against the six officers involved in Gray's arrest.
All the officers have denied wrongdoing. One has stood trial so far: Officer William Porter, who testified during his December manslaughter trial that he alerted his superior, Sergeant Alicia White, that Gray needed medical attention.
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Baltimore judge sets trials for police in Freddie Gray death case
BALTIMORE | BY DONNA OWENS
The trials of six Baltimore police officers charged in connection with Freddie Gray's death last year will resume in May, more than a year after the black detainee died in police custody, a city judge ruled on Wednesday.
Gray's April 2015 death from a broken neck suffered while in the back of a police van came amid a string of police killings of black men across the United States and set off a day of rioting and arson in the majority black city.
Less than a week after that violence, Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby filed charges ranging from assault to second-degree depraved heart murder against the six officers involved in Gray's arrest.
All the officers have denied wrongdoing. One has stood trial so far: Officer William Porter, who testified during his December manslaughter trial that he alerted his superior, Sergeant Alicia White, that Gray needed medical attention.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-baltimore-police-idUSKCN0WI2S5