All Remaining Charges Dropped Against Officers in Freddie Gray’s Death

(BALTIMORE) — State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby defended the prosecution of six officers charged in the Freddie Gray case and says she still blames police for the young black man’s death.

The father of Freddie Gray, Richard Shipley, says the family stands by Mosby who led the case in his son’s death. Shipley said in a news conference he “is proud to have her represent us.”

Prosecutors have dropped the remaining charges against the Baltimore police officers, bringing an end to the case without a conviction.

Gray was a black man who was critically injured in the back of a police van in April 2015.

Prosecutors’ decision Wednesday comes after a judge had already acquitted three of the six officers charged in the case, including the van driver and another officer who was the highest-ranking of the group.

A fourth officer had his case heard by a jury, who deadlocked and the judge declared a mistrial.

Prosecutors had said Gray was illegally arrested after he ran away from a bike patrol officer and the officers failed to buckle Gray into a seat belt or call a medic when he indicated he wanted to go to a hospital.

The death added fuel to the growing Black Lives Matter movement and caused turmoil in Baltimore, including large protests and the worst riots the city had seen in decades.

In a fiery defense of her prosecution, Mosby blamed police for an investigation that failed to hold anyone accountable for the death of Gray, a young black man. Gray’s neck was snapped in the back of a police van, and he died a week after his injury.

Mosby says she stands by the finding that Gray’s death was a homicide, saying “we do not believe that Freddie Gray killed himself.”