How Much Money Did Freddie Gray's Family Get

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

A $6.4 1000000 settlement for the family of Freddie Gray was formally approved Wednesday by a Baltimore financial board despite complaints from the patrol union president that the deal was "obscene."

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the otherwise Little Jo members of the metropolis's Board of Estimates unanimously authorised the wad, which covers the City, police force department and the officers included in wrongful death claims brought by Gray's family.

Rawlings-Blake stressed that the colonization was in zero way affiliated to criminal proceedings involving the six police officers provocative in connection with Gray's destruction.

"The purpose of the civil settlement is to bring an important measure of resolution to the Gray family, to the community and to the city," Rawlings-Blake same after the vote. "And and to avoid years and years of protracted civic judicial proceeding."

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Billy Murphy, lawyer for the Gray family, said the settlement "represents civil Department of Justice" and will have got a lulling bear upon on the city. He expressed gratitude on behalf of the family for the city's push to equip whol officers with body cameras. Rawlings-Blake aforementioned a pilot program will start before long in Robert Gray's neighborhood.

"I thank you and your colleagues for your leadership in making sure Freddie Gray did not die in vain," Murphy said.

Gray, 25, was critically injured during or at once after his April hold and died one week later. The city exploded in fierceness, and protests were held in cities across the nation. The tragedy was one in a series of cases nationwide involving the death of black men at the hands of police.

New York City agreed in July to a $5.9 million settlement with the family of Eric Garner, an unarmed black humanity who died in a confrontation with police. That deal was struck months aft a grand jury in Staten Island declined to indict any officers in Garner's death.

Annunciation of the Baltimore deal Tuesday had brought an angry reception from Socio-economic class Order of Police president Factor Ryan, who urged the Board of Estimates to turn down it. He said the settlement would damage efforts to return to "pre-orgy normalcy" – and the relationship between the city and its police officers.

"To suggest that there is any understanding to settle prior to the adjudication of the pending criminal cases is obscene," Ryan said.

Rawlings-Blake said Midweek that she was "baffled" by Ryan's statements.

"Totally this settlement does is remove civil liability from the six officers," she aforementioned. "It ensures that the end of the criminal trial is the end (of judicial proceeding) for those officers. ... There will atomic number 4 shutdown."

She said that, if she were Ryan, she would be thankful for the deal. She added that each military officer has the mighty to cop out of the settlement and take their chances in civil court.

David Harris, a police professor at the University of Pittsburgh, told the Related to Pres that lawyers for the officers will almost certainly raise the settlement issue in seeking to move the trials out of Baltimore.

"They severalize us it's by no way an admission of fault by the police officers," Harris told AP. "If I was an lawyer for a defendant I'd be revising my (venue) motion right-handed now to aver the settlement was made to carry the panel pool that the officers did something wrong."

Police aforesaid the confrontation with Gray began April 12 in a high-crime area of the city after atomic number 2 and another valet spotted officers and started running away. Gray, arrested after beingness pursued on foot, was handcuffed and restrained inside a constabulary vehicle. He suffered a bad spinal injury and died a week afterward.

An autopsy paper revealed Gray died of a "drunk-energy hurt" that likely happened when the police van suddenly slowed down.

Gray's death and investigations that followed ultimately led to the firing of Constabulary Commissioner Anthony Batts.

"I want to extend my most sincere condolences to the category of Freddie Gray," Rawlings-Blake said. "I hope that this settlement leave impart both measure of closure to his family and his friends."