The Latest: Officer says most prisoners not buckled in
BALTIMORE (AP) — The latest on the trial of a Baltimore police officer who is charged with manslaughter in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who was injured in the back of a police transport van (all times local).
A police officer who was involved in Freddie Gray's arrest and met the transport van carrying Gray at the Western District station house is testifying at a colleague's manslaughter trial.
Novak said that of the arrests during his two-and-a-half-years as a Baltimore police officer, prisoners are seat belted only 10 percent of the time and typically when they're being transported in patrol cars, not vans.
Prosecutor Michael Schatzow pressed Porter on Wednesday about an apparent discrepancy between the officer's first interview with a police investigator and his later interview and testimony.
No matter what jurors decide in the first trial of a Baltimore police officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray, city leaders are calling for people to respect the judicial process.
A Baltimore police officer charged with manslaughter in the death of Freddie Gray says the man showed no physical signs of injury and gave no reason to call for a medic during a van stop.
A Baltimore police officer charged with manslaughter in the death of Freddie Gray has taken the witness stand to begin testifying in his own defense.
Prosecutors say Porter failed to call for a medic after Gray said he needed one and the officer didn't buckle Gray into a seat belt when he was riding in the back of a police wagon.
A defense witness testifying in the trial of a police officer charged in Freddie's Gray death has been a witness in several other high-profile trials, including the acquittal of George Zimmerman.
Defense attorneys have called a forensic pathologist as their first witness in the manslaughter trial of a Baltimore police officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray.
The pathologist says he disagrees with