2 arrested in Baltimore as protests over the death of Freddie Gray continue

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published 24 April 2015

At least two people were arrested in Baltimore Thursday afternoon during protests over the death of Freddie Gray, who died after being injured while in police custody.

The Baltimore Police Department said that two people were detained for disorderly conduct and destruction of property, CNN reports. Demonstrators met in front of City Hall and then marched to a police station, and some walked through traffic, at one point surrounding a police car. Protesters say they are upset over the lack of information coming from the police department about the incident, as well as a police union's comparison of the protesters to a "lynch mob."

Gray died Sunday, a week after his arrest, and his family said his voice box was crushed and neck snapped at some point while in custody. "The police have a lot of questions that need to be answered," their attorney, Andrew O'Connell, told CNN. "What was the reasonable suspicion? Why are they arresting our client? These are pretty big questions that need to be answered. He had no weapon in his hand. He was committing no crime and he wasn't hurting anybody. The police had no reasonable suspicion to stop or arrest him." The department says that five of the six officers who were part of Gray's arrest have given statements to investigators, but they have not released what they said or details on how Gray might have become injured.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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