Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced the settlement Tuesday, just two days before Judge Barry Williams will decide whether the trials should be moved to a different jurisdiction. Defense attorneys have asked for a change of venue, citing pre-trial publicity and concern that the officers will not receive fair trials if they are tried in Baltimore.
The settlement is expected to be approved Wednesday by the Baltimore Board of Estimates, a body that reviews city payments. The settlement appears to be among the largest settlements in police death cases in recent years, and was reached before the Gray family actually filed a lawsuit.
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How can they pay a wrongful death suit when there's been no trial.....
Settled a law suit when there was none? Keep voting for black Democrats. That's what you get.
Of course they have not filed the law suit yet. That would take doing something. They were told well advance to let Billy Murphy take care of things. This is the biggest fix I have ever witnessed in my lifetime. Ray Charles can see what is going on here. People will be paid trust me and the Gray family will never see the full amount they are entitled to. This wreaks of misconduct. The timing and the amount of settlement are strong indicators of what is to come. Anyone else think Mayor Blake want this trial moved for obvious reasons. The case against six will soon be one. The factor that looms is that the one is an African American. Oh no we can not have that can we. After all the burning and looting they will convict a Black man of nothing more then negligence if that.
Well the slick smell of corruption looms in Baltimore and it is not the people who burned the city and is not the police. We all must look hard at Mayor Blake and company. We must look hard at church that was in the middle of a thirteen million dollar addition. That burned lol. Yes the people who this church helped on a daily basis burned. This facility that would house elderly Black folks burned and trust that is sorely needed in that community. One has to ask why ?
The answer is simple money will corrupt the best people. Money is all any of these 500's want. The camera and your money is what ignites their flame. Justice and equality mean absolutely nothing to these politicians.
The lives of these six pawns in a very dangerous game mean nothing. If anyone can say these four white men and two blacks conspired to kill Fred Gray that hot sunny day in broad daylight please stand up. Quite simply no one can. It did not happen that way there is no mens re here. The need for a political diversion out weighed justice and common sense. The game indeed is far from over. We have not seen the last house burned. The last innocent people persecuted. The last life lost.
The Federal Government did throw a wrench in things when they said no rebuilding the city. Even Washington could not be a part of this fix. It stinks then and it stinks today. The opportunity to grant contracts to friends will never happen. The ability to milk millions into private pockets will not happen.
This was not the poster child for corruption some had hoped for.
God Bless all Americans. We better wake up and use common sense. All lives matter.
The Gray family isn't "entitled" to a damn thing, especially from the taxpayers whom Freddie Gray parasitized for 25 years.
I'm with 956. Nothing. This ignorant payoff just reinforces the fact that Mosley is corrupt beyond belief. No mercy here.
Because of this nonsense, it's time for Maryland to stop subsidizing Baltimore with money raised by taxes on the residents of the rest of the State.
How long do you think it will take them to go through all that dough and after they do what will they have to show for it
Just throw the 6.4 mill in the inner harbor
I can understand how a wife and minor children would be get a settlement, but I'm scratching my head as to how the parents and siblings of an adult are entitled to any amount of money.
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