a grand jury has indicted six baltimore police officers in the killing of freddie gray. some charges have been revised based upon evidence. a reckless endangerment charge has been added for all six officers. three officers have one count of second degree assault dropped. those same three officers had a false imprisonment charge dropped. the most serious of the charges stuck for all of the officers, the driver of the van transporting freddie gray still faces second degree murder. the other five officers face at least one count of second degree assault. four of the six officers face one count of involuntary man slaughter. now that a grand jury has also found probable cause to charge the aforementioned officers based upon the evidence, these officers who are presumed incident until proven guilty are now scheduled to be arraigned on july 2nd. coming up, new rules for
he s charged with man slaughter. that s considered a lesser included charge. man slaughter by vehicle. he was the driver of the vehicle, and misconduct in office. ceasar goodson s grandfather was a police officer. a neighborhood told t the baltimore sun , goodson spends a lot of time with his family and kids. he s helped me with my car a few times. i could never say anything negative about him. a police officer who did not want to be named told the baltimore sun he s not confrontational. he s not known as being a heavy handed guy. one of the officers facing the least amount of charges is 25-year-old william porter. he grew up on the other side of town as freddie gray. he still lives with his parents. near loyola university in maryland. porter met the police van and helped cesar goodson check on freddie gray. that s all he did.
not putting the seat belt on the passenger. nine days earlier, the police procedures went in place that said, in fact, when the prisoners are put into a paddy wagon, you have to actually seat belt them. that hasn t been done for decades and decades and decades because police officers are afraid when a prisoner is acting up that when they go to put the seat belt on, they ll get bitten and spat at. thaems that s why sometimes they didn t do it in the past and that would have been the negligent act and the question the jury will have to find is was the driver or any one of the four officers charged with involuntary man slaughter, were they negligent and as a result of that negligence, did freddie gray die? neal franklin, when you were training baltimore police officers, were they trained to use the seat belts in the back of those vans? absolutely. that s why the seat belts are there, for use. and we know what happens when you re not seat belted in the back of one of those vans, you re
does that mean and right below it is man slaughter, which indicates the prosecutor is living with the possibility that a jury might look at that and say no, we re not going to convict him of second degree, but we will convict him of involuntary man slaughter, the lesser included charge as they say right below it. what does that mean, the second degree version of it? does that mean that the driver this is the driver of the van who is charged with that. does that mean when he was driving the van, he had to drive it with the intent of injuring the passenger? well, injuring the passenger to the extent that he would have known that the reasonable person driving like that, that the passenger could die. and so that s why it s so difficult. the involuntary man slaughter would mean that the death was an accident, but the accident was a result of negligence to act. in this case, the negligent act could have been one of two things. one, not getting the medical help, but more likely would
it is irritating and, you know, it is irritating at a time when we need balm for healing and unity in not just baltimore but across this country. so i m rather disappointed with their position on this. i just want to clarify for the audience, fop being the fraternal order of police which is, in effect, the union in baltimore representing police officers. and the one of the things that happens today in all of this was that we started to see the different degrees of complicity of the officers, neal, in relation to the various charges. some of them charged with man slaughter. all of them charged with man slaughter except i think two as i see it here who were charged with assault, only assault in the second degree. but this kind of charging is