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1st LD: Charges dropped against remaining U.S. police officers in Freddie Gray case

Xinhua, July 27, 2016 Adjust font size:

U.S. prosecutors dropped all charges Wednesday against three police officers accused in the arrest and death of the black man Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, local media reported.

In a hearing for police officer Garrett Miller, Chief Deputy State's Attorney Michael Schatzow told Judge Barry Williams that the state was dropping all charges against the three remaining officers in the case, namely Miller, William Porter and Alicia White, The Baltimore Sun reported on its website.

Miller was the next officer scheduled to stand trial, Porter was to face a retrial in September and White was to be tried in October.

This ended the high-profile case, which ignited protests and violence in the city last year, without convicting any of the six Baltimore police officers charged.

Gray, a 25-year-old African-American, died in a Baltimore hospital in April 2015 after he was arrested for possessing what the police alleged to be an illegal switchblade.

Gray fell into a coma while being transported in a police van. His death a week later in the hospital was believed to be caused by injuries to his spinal cord. Endi