Mosby filed criminal charges against the six police officers who were involved in Gray’s arrest and transportation to the police station. 10 After over a week of intensifying protests and national attention, 11 State’s Attorney Marilyn J.
9 Citizens and community leaders demanded that the city fire the officers and press criminal charges against them. 8įor five consecutive days, protesters took to the streets, City Hall, and the police headquarters to denounce Gray’s death at the hands of the Baltimore police officers. 7 Paramedics later transferred him to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he remained comatose for a week before dying. 6 Eventually, Gray emerged unconscious with a nearly severed spinal cord and a crushed voice box. 5 Unable to stand or walk, Gray was dragged to the back of a police van where he would spend the next forty minutes handcuffed, shackled, unbuckled, and, while conscious, begging for his twenty-five-year-old life as the officers drove around the city making several stops. 4 Video footage shows the officers savagely shoving Gray’s face into the sidewalk and twisting his arms and legs. 3 After a brief chase, Gray stopped voluntarily, at which point officers arrested him. 2 At some point on the way home, they encountered police officers on bicycles. 1 The restaurant they wanted to visit was closed, however, so they left. That morning, he walked to breakfast in his old West Baltimore neighborhood with two of his best friends. When Freddie Gray woke up on April 12, 2015, he surely did not know that he would soon enter a coma only to die a week later.
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