However, the judge ruled that the officers didn’t act in an unreasonable way or were aware of and chose to ignore the substantial risk by placing Gray in a police van without a seatbelt, which is required for reckless endangerment. On Tuesday night, in Philadelphia, the mayor called the roll that resulted in the nomination of Hillary Clinton for president, part of her duties as secretary of the Democratic National Committee. The rioters said they wanted justice and now it has been done – no thanks to Marilyn Mosby.
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Gray was a black man who was critically injured in the back of a police van in April 2015.
At a hearing in City Hall on Wednesday, activists compared the money to bonuses for police.
Gray was arrested after he fled officers unprovoked in a high-crime area.
The full City Council will take up the spending next month.
Prosecutors have dropped the remaining charges against Baltimore police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, bringing an end to the case without a conviction.
In the days following the incident, tensions in Baltimore boiled over as city officials offered their assurances in an effort to quell the uprisings with a seven-figure payout announced and prosecutor Marilyn Mosby taking to the courthouse steps to promise the justice system would hold those responsible to account.
She says despite this loss, she will continue to “fight for a fair and equitable justice system for all”.
Two outside police departments are investigating the officers’ conduct to help determine whether they should face departmental sanctions.
Goodson, who had driven the police van in which Gray is believed to have suffered a fatal spinal injury, received the harshest charge of all six officers: second-degree depraved-heart murder.
“I have decided not to proceed on the case against Officer Garrett Miller, Sgt. Alicia White or relitigate the case against William Porter”, Mosby said. At several points, the judge berated them for failing to turn over evidence to the officers’ attorneys.
Sharon Black is an organizer for the Peoples Power Assembly, which has been holding rallies and protests in the city. Three officers had been acquitted by a judge. In fact, the local police union attacked the very notion that any investigation would result in a conclusion of wrongdoing-even before the first officer involved had so much as given a statement.
Miller has chosen a bench trial. “I know they lied, and they killed him”, she said. Such a high-profile failure would be a heavy blow for the career of any prosecutor, but Mosby’s quick action has earned her significant support in the majority black city of 620,000 people, legal experts and civil-rights activists said.
It is true that internal police-department guidelines for restraining suspects may have been violated in the Gray case, but there is reason to believe that the officers involved were unaware of those guidelines.
His death set off violent protests in Baltimore. By dropping all charges against Miller, Porter, and White, she is admitting what many of us realized a long time ago: There was never a conviction to be had.
In April 2015, 25-year-old Freddie Gray was arrested for carrying a switchblade, according to CBS News.
Mosby claimed that some members of the Baltimore police department attempted to undermine the state’s case and said that there is “inherent bias” when “police police themselves”.
“I have no respect for corrupt cops”, he said, “but in this case with the six officers, they are not corrupt”.
Considering the outcome of the last three trials, it seems clear that the likelihood of any conviction is about zero. An attorney for Lt. Brian Rice argued that officers were rightly in a rush to leave the scene, where an angry crowd began to grow and record the arrest on smartphones. Three had been acquitted earlier.
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Since Gray’s death, police have adopted several reforms, including a revised use-of-force policy and a body-camera program that will require all field officers to be equipped while on the streets.
