Demonstrators took to the streets Friday to celebrate the announcement that six police officers were being charged in the death of Freddie Gray, who died of a spinal injury received while in police custody earlier this month.
Police vans and armored National Guard vehicles drove by the group, but took no action, despite the protesters’ clear defiance of a 10 p.m. curfew.
Just after 11:30 p.m., the group was debating what to do next, and then four or five ran to catch a bus as soon as they saw one.
Gray, 25, was arrested on April 12 after fleeing from Baltimore cops. By the time the police wagon brought him to a station half an hour later, he was unconscious. He suffered a severe spinal cord injury and a crushed voice box, and died a week later in a hospital.
Six of the cops who oversaw his arrest — Lt. Brian Rice, Sgt. Alicia White and officers Caesar Goodson, William Porter Edward Nero and Garrett Miller — were charged Friday.
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