Another Baltimore police officer acquitted in Freddie Gray case

July 18, 2016 20:33

A judge has acquitted a Baltimore police officer on all charges in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died after he was injured in a police transport van.

Lt. Brian Rice was acquitted on Monday after a bench trial by Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams. Rice is the fourth of the six officers charged to go on trial in the 2015 death. Three earlier trials resulted in two acquittals and a mistrial.

Rice faced charges of involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office. Rice is white and the highest-ranking of the officers.

Gray was arrested on April 12, 2015 after fleeing at the sight of police, and suffered a broken spine while being transported in the back of a Baltimore police van, unsecured and with his hands and feet bound.

He died a week later. Williams had challenged state prosecutors' charge that Goodson had deliberately given Gray a 'rough ride' in the back of the van.

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