BREAKING NEWS
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| Baltimore reaches $6.4 million settlement in Freddie Gray’s death in police custody |
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 11:36 AM EDT
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| Baltimore has reached a tentative settlement of $6.4 million with the family of a black man who died from an injury sustained while he was in police custody, city officials said on Tuesday. |
| Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said in a statement that the settlement with the family of Freddie Gray would be sent to the Baltimore Board of Estimates for a vote on Wednesday. |
| Mr. Gray died in April from a spinal injury suffered in the back of a police transport van, and six Baltimore officers have been charged in his death. The death set off protests and a day of rioting, arson and looting. A judge last week refused to dismiss the charges against the officers and ordered individual trials for them. |
| “The proposed settlement agreement going before the Board of Estimates should not be interpreted as a judgment on the guilt or innocence of the officers facing trial,” Ms. Rawlings-Blake said. The proposed settlement will be paid as $2.8 million in the current fiscal year and $3.6 million in the year beginning in July of 2016. |
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