Jeff Sessions Slams Deal to Monitor Baltimore Police

Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a statementFriday raising concerns over a consent decree to impose federal monitoring of the Baltimore Police Department.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland entered the decree Friday morning to resolve the findings of the investigation of the Baltimore Police begun by the Civil Rights Division of President Obama’s Department of Justice after the death of suspected drug dealer Freddie Gray in April 2015.

Mr. Gray’s death in police custody likely was the result of injuries he sustained after officers did not buckle his seatbelt after arresting him and placing him in the back of their van. The death set off days of intense rioting and looting that saw the violence-ridden city in flames and stretched already strained police-community relations to the breaking point.

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