Baltimore Officers Will Face No Federal Charges in Death of Freddie Gray (The New York Times)

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Baltimore Officers Will Face No Federal Charges in Death of Freddie Gray
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/us/freddie-gray-baltimore-police-federal-charges.html

WASHINGTON — Six Baltimore police officers will face no federal charges in the death of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man who died of a severe spinal cord injury while in custody, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday.

“After an extensive review of this tragic event, conducted by career prosecutors and investigators, the Justice Department concluded that the evidence is insufficient,” the department said in a statement, adding that it was unable to prove the officers “willfully violated Gray’s civil rights.”

The closure of the criminal civil rights investigation into Mr. Gray’s death, which prompted unrest in Baltimore, a predominantly black city, and a federal examination of its police department’s practices,
means that no officers will be held criminally responsible in his death.

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