Baltimore Man Dies After Arrest, Prompting Calls for Answers and Accountability

Protests and calls for an independent inquiry came in the wake of the news on Sunday morning that Freddie Gray, the 27-year-old Baltimore man injured during an arrest by police last week, had died.

“We believe the police are keeping the circumstances of Freddie’s death secret until they develop a version of events that will absolve them of all responsibility.”
—William Murphy, Gray family lawyer

The Baltimore Sun reported Monday that city police wrote in court documents that Gray, who is black, was arrested “without force or incident” for having a switchblade knife and suffered a medical emergency during transport.

However, in a statement released Sunday, the family’s attorney William “Billy” Murphy, Jr. offered a different account:

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The weekend’s protests outside the Western District Baltimore police station involved members of the People’s Power Assembly, a Baltimore activist group that has long protested police brutality in the city, mixed with a contingent from the Justice League NYC, who redirected their 250-mile ‘March 2 Justice’ to Washington, D.C., “to stand in solidarity with the family of Freddie Gray.”

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Of the call for an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding Gray’s death, local Rev. Cortley “C.D.” Witherspoon said: “The family needs to be able to have that. They deserve that.”

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By mobanmarketOctober 11, 2020