BALTIMORE (AP) — The Latest on the Justice Department’s report on Baltimore police (all times local):
8:30 a.m.
A Baltimore activist says the Justice Department’s report on the city’s police officers raises the question of whether there will now be justice for those who have died after encounters with police.
The report being issued Wednesday finds that the city’s police routinely discriminate against blacks, use excessive force and aren’t adequately disciplined for misconduct. But the Rev. Cortly “C.D.” Witherspoon, president of the Baltimore chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said in a statement Wednesday that for those who have been fighting what he calls the “War Against Police Brutality,” the reports contains no startling revelations.
The Justice Department is seeking a court-enforceable consent decree to force the police agency to commit to improving its procedures to avoid a lawsuit. The investigation was launched after the 2015 death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who suffered a broken neck in a police van.
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3:30 a.m.
A harshly critical Justice Department report says Baltimore police officers routinely discriminate against blacks, use excessive force and are not adequately disciplined for misconduct.
The report being issued Wednesday represents a damning indictment of how the city’s police officers carry out the most fundamental of policing practices, including traffic stops and searches and responding to First Amendment expression.
The Justice Department is seeking a court-enforceable consent decree to force the police agency to commit to improving its procedures in order to avoid a lawsuit.
The federal investigation was launched after the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man whose neck was broken while he was handcuffed and shackled but left unrestrained in the back of a police van.
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