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U.S. NEWSFriday 22 May 2015
Mosby: Six Officers Indicted in Baltimore Case
JULIET LINDERMAN timore State’s Attorney a van, Mosby has said. His She also did not take ques- least two points gave way
Associated Press Marilyn Mosby announced pleas for medical attention tions. to violence, looting and
BALTIMORE (AP) — All six about three weeks ago. were repeatedly ignored, “As is often the case, during arson. In the wake of the
officers charged in the The most serious charge she said. an ongoing investigation, riots, Democratic Mayor
police-custody death of for each officer, ranging Mosby said prosecutors charges can and should Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
be revised based upon the implemented a curfew for
Photos provided by the Baltimore P.D. of, top row from left: Caesar Goodson Jr., Garrett Miller and evidence,” Mosby said. all Baltimore residents, and
Edward Nero, and bottom row from left: William Porter, Brian Rice and Alicia White, the six police In all, three of the officers Republican Gov. Larry Ho-
officers charged with felonies ranging from assault to murder in the death of Freddie Gray. had additional charges gan declared a state of
brought against them while emergency.
(Baltimore Police Department via The New York Times) three others had one less Gray was arrested in the
charge. Sandtown-Winchester
an African-American that from second-degree “de- had presented evidence Gray was arrested April neighborhood of West Bal-
prompted rioting in Balti- praved heart” murder to to the grand jury for the 12. He died in a hospital a timore. According to court
more were indicted by a assault, still stood. past two weeks. Some of week later and became documents, Gray made
grand jury, a prosecutor Gray suffered a critical the charges were changed a symbol of what protest- eye contact with a police
said Thursday. spinal injury after police based on new information, ers say was police brutality officer and took off running.
The indictments were very handcuffed, shackled and but she didn’t say what against blacks. He was apprehended two
similar to the charges Bal- placed him head-first into that new information was. Two officers, Edward Nero blocks away and arrested
and Garrett Miller, were in- for possession of what Miller
dicted on second-degree wrote in charging docu-
assault, misconduct in of- ments is illegal under a city
fice and reckless endan- ordinance.
germent. Mosby said the arrest was
Caesar Goodson, who unlawful because the knife
drove the transport van, is legal under state law.
faces manslaughter and None of the officers se-
second-degree “depraved cured Gray’s seatbelt in
heart” murder. Sgt. Alicia the van, a violation of po-
White, Lt. Brian Rice and lice policy. Soon after he
officer William Porter are was placed in the van,
each charged with man- Goodson stopped to se-
slaughter, second-degree cure him with leg irons be-
assault, misconduct in of- cause he had become
fice and reckless endan- “irate,” police said. After a
germent. ride that included several
Gray died on April 19, one more stops, including one
week after he was criti- to pick up a second pas-
cally injured, and his death senger, the van arrived at
inspired outrage among the Western District station
Baltimore residents that house. By that time, Gray
spawned protests that at was non-responsive.q
New York:
Man who intervened in 2013 biker assault testifies at trial
JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr NEW YORK - A Washington vened as a gang of mo- driver of a sport utility ve- trial of two men accused
© 2015 New York Times Heights man who inter- torcyclists was beating the hicle testified Thursday that of taking part in the attack.
he still does not know why “Somehow I managed to
the attackers listened to stop them,” Consuegra
him. said. Consuegra said af-
The man, Sergio Consueg- ter the attack he became
ra, said he saw several bik- afraid of reprisals from oth-
ers drag Alexian Lien from er members of the pack
his car and begin to smash of bikers, who had been
his head with their helmets part of a scofflaw tour of
and fists, while two other New York City on Sept. 29,
motorcyclists tried to pull 2103, when they became
Lien’s wife, Roselyn Ng, embroiled in a road fight
from the passenger’s seat, with Lien on the West Side
one of them saying, “You’re Highway. Outside court,
going to get it, too.” Consuegra said he never
Consuegra, 53, said he received any threats, but
waded into the fray after he still became so worried
Lien went down, his body about his security that he
not moving and his face quit his job at a medical
bloodied. He said he held supply company in Or-
out his arms and barked at angeburg, New York, and
the enraged bikers. “I said: went to work for a taxi com-
‘That’s it, guys, let it go! Let pany, thinking he would be
it go!’” he testified at the harder to find. q
