All six officers who were charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray were back on duty on Thursday, reported The Baltimore Sun.
None, however, have returned to patrolling the streets of West Baltimore, where Gray, a 25-year-old black man, suffered a severe spinal cord injury while he was handcuffed and shackled but left unrestrained in the back of a police van in April 2015.
Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby brought criminal charges against the six officers ranging from misconduct in office to second-degree murder.
Three officers were acquitted, and Mosby dropped all remaining charges against the other three.
Five of the officers were then facing administrative charges within the department for allegedly violating department policies and neglecting their duties before they were dropped by Police Commissioner Kevin Davis.
All six officers who were charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray are back on duty. Officer Caesar Goodson Jr (left) works in the CitiWatch unit, which monitors surveillance cameras across the city. Officer Edward Nero (center) works in the department’s aviation unit, which runs the helicopter patrols. Officer Garrett Miller (right) works in the marine unit, policing the city’s waterfront and waterways
Officer William Porter (left) is working as a detective investigating drug trafficking. Lt Brian Rice (center) currently works in the crime lab, collecting and processing evidence. Sgt Alicia White (right) works in the Strategic Services Bureau, a new unit that coordinates officer training, policy, and discipline
None, however, have returned to patrolling the streets of West Baltimore, where Gray, a 25-year-old black man (center), suffered a severe spinal cord injury while he was handcuffed and shackled but left unrestrained in the back of a police van in April 2015
Lt Brian Rice, who was the highest-ranking officer charged in the case, currently works in the crime lab, collecting and processing evidence.
Sgt Alicia White works in the Strategic Services Bureau, a new unit that coordinates officer training, policy, and discipline.
Officer Garrett Miller, who initially arrested Gray and accepted minor discipline, works in the marine unit, policing the city’s waterfront and waterways.
This frame shows from left to right: Officer Caesar Goodson, Officer Garrett Miller, Officer Edward Nero, Freddie Gray and Lt Brian Rice on the day Gray was arrested and suffered a severe spinal cord injury
Officer Edward Nero, who arrived shortly after Gray’s arrest and helped place him in the back of the police van, also accepted minor discipline. He works in the department’s aviation unit, which runs the helicopter patrols.
Officer Caesar Goodson Jr, the driver of the van in which Gray suffered his injury, works in the CitiWatch unit, which monitors surveillance cameras across the city.
Officer William Porter, who was called to check on Gray and found him unconscious, is working as a detective investigating drug trafficking. He was the only one to not face administrative charges.
Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby brought criminal charges against the six officers ranging from misconduct in office to second-degree murder (Pictured, Nero, left, Rice, second from left, and Miller, right, leave the Maryland Court of Appeals in March 2016)
Three officers were acquitted, and Mosby dropped all remaining charges against the other three (Pictured, White leaves the Maryland Court of Appeals in Annapolis in March 2016)
Five of the officers were then facing administrative charges within the department for allegedly violating department policies and neglecting their duties before they were dropped by Police Commissioner Kevin Davis (Pictured, Porter right, with his attorneys, arrive at the courthouse for pretrial hearings in Baltimore, Maryland, in January 2016)
All six officers say Mosby knowingly filed false charges against them. But she and her attorney say the charges fell within her rights and duties as a prosecutor (Pictured, Goodson Jr arrives at the courthouse for the first day of jury selection in Baltimore, Maryland in January 2016)
‘That’s all finally over and they can try and put this behind them and move on with their lives,’ said Michael Davey, the police union attorney. ‘No one is taking lightly what happened to Mr Gray.’
All six officers say Mosby knowingly filed false charges against them. But she and her attorney say the charges fell within her rights and duties as a prosecutor.
Both sides will make their arguments to the US Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, on December 6.
For White, the past two years of court proceedings have been ‘hell’, Tony Garcia, her attorney, said.
He said White fell behind on her mortgage payments after he pay was frozen. She suffered anxiety and was once rushed to the hospita.
‘She had this dark cloud hanging over her for years,’ Garcia said.
Both sides will make their arguments to the US Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, on December 6 (Pictured, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby holds a news conference in July 2016)
Gray’s neck was snapped in the back of a police van, and he died a week after his injury. His death prompted civil unrest among people expressing outrage at the treatment of African-Americans by police in Baltimore’s inner city (Pictured, Gloria Darden, second from the right, Freddie Gray’s mother, leans into his casket during his funeral in April 2015)
His death added fuel to the growing Black Lives Matter movement and caused turmoil in Baltimore (Pictured, a woman walks past a mural of Freddie Gray after Goodson Jr was found not guilty on all charges in June 2016)
Gray’s neck was snapped in the back of a police van, and he died a week after his injury.
His death prompted civil unrest among people expressing outrage at the treatment of African-Americans by police in Baltimore’s inner city.
His death added fuel to the growing Black Lives Matter movement and caused turmoil in Baltimore.
In reforms made as a result of Gray’s death, state lawmakers opened police disciplinary hearings to the public, hoping to improve transparency when departments seek to hold officers accountable.