USA-POLICE/BALTIMORE-RALLY Baltimore rallies in hope after police charged

Record ID: 135092

  • Title: USA-POLICE/BALTIMORE-RALLY Baltimore rallies in hope after police charged
  • Date: 2nd May 2015
  • Summary: BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES (MAY 2, 2015) (REUTERS) PROTESTERS CHANTING "BACK UP, BACK UP, WE WANT FREEDOM, FREEDOM. ALL THOSE RACIST ASS COPS, WE DON'T NEED 'EM, NEED 'EM" VIEW OF PROTESTERS IN FRONT OF BALTIMORE CITY HALL WOMAN AT MICROPHONE ON PODIUM PROTESTERS CHEERING (SOUNDBITE) (English) PROTESTER LARRY FOWLKS SAYING: "Violence goes on in Baltimore City every
  • Embargoed: 17th May 2015 13:00
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  • Story Text: Hundreds of people took to the streets of Baltimore on Saturday (May 2) as anger over the death of a young black man turned to hopes for change following swift criminal charges against six police officers.
    Marchers departed from the housing projects where 25-year-old Freddie Gray was arrested last month and converged on a plaza in front of Baltimore city hall where the city's chief prosecutor announced charges on Friday (May 1) ranging from murder to assault in Gray's death.
    The march, amid a heavily armed police and national guard presence, appeared to be largely peaceful.
    Using social media hashtags #BlackLivesMatter and #BlackSpring, rallies in solidarity with Gray and against police mistreatment of minorities were also planned on Saturday in more than 20 U.S. cities including Dallas, New York and Los Angeles.
    Many in the largely black city erupted with joy after the officers were charged - a sharp contrast to the deaths of unarmed black men over the past year in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York, where authorities found police broke no laws.
    But while the charges announced by prosecutor Marilyn Mosby brought relief to the city of 620,000, residents said they needed to see justice served, not only in Baltimore but in other U.S. communities where they feel minorities are disproportionately targeted by police.
    Gray died on April 19, a week after suffering a fatal spinal injury while in police custody. The six officers - three black and three white, five men and one woman - involved in his arrest were released on bond on Friday.
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