A new report from the Department of Justice set to be released on Wednesday finds that the Baltimore Police Department routinely violated civil rights. The department disproportionately targeted black residents in poor neighborhoods in the city. In one instance “supervisors have issued explicitly discriminatory orders, such as directing a shift to arrest ‘all the black…
Baltimore Prosecutors are dropping charges against the three remaining officers facing trial in connection with Freddie Gray’s death. Six officers were charged in connection with the April 2015 death of Gray, a 25-year-old who died after sustaining a neck injury while in police custody. A pretrial hearing for Officer Garrett Miller had been set for…
Caesar Goodson, the driver of the van in which Baltimore man Freddie Gray sustained a fatal spinal injury, was acquitted of second-degree murder on Thursday. Goodson, 46, faced charges surrounding the death of Gray, who died in police custody last year — a week after he was in the van. Two other officers have been…
Baltimore police officer Edward Nero has been acquitted of assault, reckless endangerment, and misconduct surrounding the death of Freddie Gray. Gray, a black man, suffered severe injuries while in police custody in April 2015, and died a week later. His death sparked a series of protests in Baltimore and nationwide. The case of the first…
Lawyers for six Baltimore police officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death are in court for a pretrial hearing Wednesday as the city braces for what could happen afterward. The hearing comes almost five months after Gray suffered a fatal spinal injury in custody while being transported in a police van. “Mr. Gray suffered a severe…
The U.S. Justice Department is set to launch a federal investigation into whether the Baltimore Police Department has engaged in a “pattern or practice” of excessive force.
According to the Washington Post, who received a ‘leak’ on the Investigation into the Death of Freddie Gray: The prisoner sharing a police transport van the day Freddie Gray was arrested is said to have told investigators that he could hear Gray “banging against the walls” of the vehicle and believed that he “was intentionally…
The Nightly Show’s Larry Wilmore coverage of the Baltimore riots describe as a brother appears to vanish during CNN’s live coverage 10 minutes after the 10pm curfew. Did you see that that? the brother just disappear, you saw there was a brother walking there, ok lets watch it one more time…. He’s Gone! The brother’s…
