Policemen take a position outside a store at the Western District in
Baltimore, Maryland on April 29, 2015 (AFP Photo/Andrew
Caballero-Reynolds)
Baltimore (AFP) - A lawyer
retained by Baltimore's police union to represent six officers accused
of wrongdoing in the death of a young black suspect on Friday denounced
"an egregious rush to judgement."
"We
believe that these officers will be vindicated as they have done
nothing wrong," said Michael Davey, a lawyer working for the city's
Fraternal Order of Police.
"I
have never seen such a hurried rush to file criminal charges," he said,
appearing to suggest that prosecutors had been rushed into acting by
pressure from a week of street demonstrations.
Earlier,
Maryland state prosecutor Marilyn Mosby charged six officers in
relation to the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, whose suffered severe
spinal injuries when he was arrested on April 12 and died a week later.
The
charges range from second-degree murder and manslaughter at the most
serious end of the scale to a simple misconduct charge at the other.
Five of the six have been detained.
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