{"id":28397,"date":"2016-05-23T09:41:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T16:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=28397"},"modified":"2016-05-23T09:54:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T16:54:08","slug":"baltimore-cop-freddie-gray-case-found-not-guilty-charges-mayor-asks-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/baltimore-cop-freddie-gray-case-found-not-guilty-charges-mayor-asks-patience\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Cop in Freddie Gray Case Found Not Guilty on All Charges, Mayor Asks for Patience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lCfKf8VLico?rel=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Officer Edward Nero, who failed to secure Freddie Gray with a seatbelt in the police van, was found not guilty on all charges in Gray&#8217;s death. Now we wait to see if Baltimore is once again torn apart and if Mayor Rawlings-Blake will <a href=\"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/baltimore-mayor-we-gave-those-who-wished-to-destroy-space-to-do-that\/\">give rioters their space<\/a> again?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My statement on the judge&#8217;s decision in the criminal trial of officer Nero <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2clErkU0YF\">pic.twitter.com\/2clErkU0YF<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Mayor Rawlings-Blake (@MayorSRB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayorSRB\/status\/734763077753839617\">May 23, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here we go again&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DoZLesC3CRo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Freddie Gray case: Baltimore Police Officer Edward Nero found not guilty of all charges<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/freddie-gray\/bs-md-ci-nero-verdict-20160521-story.html\">by Justin Fenton and Kevin Rector | The Baltimore Sun<\/a><br \/>\nOfficer Edward Nero found not guilty on all four charges related to the arrest and death of Freddie Gray.<br \/>\nBaltimore Circuit Judge Barry Williams on Monday acquitted Officer Edward Nero of all counts for his role in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray.<\/p>\n<p>The judgment, following a five-day bench trial, is the first in the closely-watched case. Nero, 30, faced four misdemeanor charges of second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and two counts of misconduct in office.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors had argued that Nero committed an assault by detaining Gray without justification, while the reckless endangerment charge related to Nero&#8217;s role in putting Gray into an arrest wagon without buckling a seat belt. In closing arguments Thursday, Williams had skeptically questioned prosecutors about their theory of assault, which legal experts said was unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p>Nero leaned forward after the verdict was read, and wiped his eyes. He hugged his attorneys.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Murphy, the attorney for the Gray family, commended Williams for not bowing to public pressure<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/freddie-gray\/bs-md-ci-nero-verdict-20160521-story.html\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officer Edward Nero, who failed to secure Freddie Gray with a seatbelt in the police van, was found not guilty on all charges in Gray&#8217;s death. Now we wait to see if Baltimore is once&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[630],"tags":[41726,41720,41696,42871],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/freddie-gray.jpg?fit=728%2C380","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28397"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28400,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28397\/revisions\/28400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}