Chuck Darwin<p>On April 12, 2015, lifelong Baltimore resident <a href="https://c.im/tags/Freddie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Freddie</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gray</span></a> was arrested, hogtied and thrown into the back of a police van by six officers. </p><p>When Gray was pulled from the van less than an hour later, he was in a coma. </p><p>A week later, he passed away from severe injuries to his cervical spinal cord. </p><p>The incident, and the revelations thereafter, set Baltimore and the entire country ablaze. </p><p>Details of the case alleged officers had taken Gray for a “rough ride,” <br>a police brutality practice <br>where individuals are intentionally left unrestrained in police vehicles during dangerous driving maneuvers. </p><p>After a coroner ruled Gray’s death a homicide, <br>the six officers involved in his arrest were charged with crimes ranging from false imprisonment to manslaughter. </p><p>But the damage was done, not only to Gray, but to his community, <br>which had endured decades of deprivations and abuse by Baltimore police. </p><p>The resulting <a href="https://c.im/tags/Baltimore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Baltimore</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Uprising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uprising</span></a> shook the city and the nation to its core, <br>fueling a fresh wave of Black Lives Matter protests building on the murders of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trayvon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trayvon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Martin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Martin</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mike</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brown</span></a>, and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Eric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eric</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Garner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Garner</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://therealnews.com/freddie-gray-a-decade-of-struggle" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">therealnews.com/freddie-gray-a</span><span class="invisible">-decade-of-struggle</span></a></p>