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Hip Hop Reacts: No Convictions For Police In Freddie Gray’s Death

Baltimore, MD – Prosecutors dropped the charges against the remaining ficers accused in Freddie Gray’s arrest and death yesterday, reports The Baltimore Sun.

Three ficers had already been acquitted in the case the 25-year-old Baltimore man who went into a coma and died a week after being arrested. Gray sustained a spinal cord injury while being transported in a police van after his arrest. He’d been handcuffed and shackled, but police didn’t secure him with a seat belt.

Gray’s death and the subsequent trials for the ficers accused being involved inspired protests in the city and across the country at a time that many Black men have died as a result their interactions with police.

His death was ruled a homicide by the medical examiner, and the ficers involved were hit with a range charges including second-degree depraved-heart murder, second-degree assault, manslaughter by vehicle and misconduct in fice.

Many figures in the Hip Hop community reacted to the news that no one would be held accountable with frustration.

Rapper David Banner released a statement to the press, writing, “In the case Freddie Gray, America has clearly shown that it has completely turned its back on Black people. Apparently, the laws are not the same for the Police. We lose our lives; they get paid vacation. What are Black people to do about it is a better question!”

Several others took to Twitter with their thoughts.