YOU CAN SEE THEM ALL THEIR.
IT LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE READY.
ON BEHALF OF THE MEMBERS WE
ARE PLEASED TO -- THAT THE
CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST
OFFICER MILLER, PORTER, AND
SERGEANT MIKE HAVE BEEN
DISMISSED.
JUSTICE HAS BEEN DONE.
OUR UNION WILL CONTINUE TO
SUPPORT OUR OFFICERS AND
ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS AND WE
BELIEVE THESE GET OFFICERS WILL
BE RETURNED TO FULFILLING THEIR
DUTIES AND SERVING THE CITIZENS
OF BALTIMORE CITY THE MEN AND
WOMEN OF BALTIMORE POLICE
DEPARTMENT ARE EXTREMELY
DEDICATED TO SERVING THE
CITIZENS OF BALTIMORE EVERYDAY.
THE COMMENTS MADE TODAY ABOUT
OUR OFFICERS BY MS. BUSBY WERE
OUT RAGES -- OUTRAGEOUS AND AND
CALLED FOR AND SIMPLY NOT TRUE.
THE DETECTIVES ASSIGNED TO THE
CASE ASSIGNED A VERY THOROUGH
INVESTIGATION BUT THE STATE'S
ATTORNEY SIMPLY COULD NOT
ACCEPT THE EVIDENCE THAT WAS
PRESENTED.
SHE HAD HER OWN AGENDA.
WE WANT TO THANK THE EFFORTS OF
OUR DEDICATED DEFENSE TEAM WHO
I CALL THE SOP LEGAL TEAM
BECAUSE THEY HAVE SUPPORTED OUR
OFFICERS OVER THE LAST YEAR AND
FOUR MONTHS.
THEY DID A TREMENDOUS JOB.
AT THIS TIME I TURN THE PRESS
CONFERENCE OVER TO SERGEANT
ALICIA WHITE'S ATTORNEY WHO
WILL SPEAK ON BEHALF OF OF THE
WHOLE TEAM.
GOOD AFTERNOON.
BALTIMORE, IT IS TIME TO HEAL.
I REPRESENT SERGEANT ALICIA
WHITE. MY BLOG -- MY LAW PARTNER
MANNY GARCIA AND BOYD.
WE HAVE OTHER DEFENSE TEAMS
HERE.
ON BEHALF OF EDWARD NERO.
I'M CATHERINE FLYNN AND I'M
HERE WITH MY ASSOCIATE BRANDING
MADE WE REPRESENT OFFICER
MILLER.
ANDY GRAHAM WITH OFFICER
GOODSON.
MICHAEL BELSKY ON BEHALF OF
THE TENANT RICE WHO IS RIGHT
HERE.
NOW WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND
OUR CONDOLENCES TO THE FREDDIE
GRAY FAMILY.
MYSELF AND THE ATTORNEYS AND
TRIAL TEAM THE OFFICERS AND
EVERYBODY INVOLVED. ANYTIME
THERE IS AN INCIDENT LIKE THIS
IT'S A SAD TIME WITH THE FAMILY
LOSES ANYONE.
WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE ON MAY 1
2015 WE HAVE TO -- IS WHEN THE
NIGHTMARE BEGAN FOR ALL THESE
OFFICERS.
THAT IS WHEN WE SAW THE STATE
ATTORNEY FOR BALTIMORE CITY
WALK DOWN THE STEPS AND
ANNOUNCED TO THE WORLD WHAT
THEY FELL AND WHAT THEY WANTED
THE EVIDENCE TO BE.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE BEGAN
TO LOOK AT AS A DEFENSE TEAM AS
ATTORNEYS WERE COVERED BY ROSE.
WE HAD A PROFESSIONAL CONTEXT
-- CONDUCT RULE 3.8 WHICH TALKS
ABOUT THE SPECIAL
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE
PROSECUTOR WHICH IS THAT THEY
MUST REFRAIN FROM PROSECUTING A
CHARGE THAT THE PROSECUTOR
KNOWS IS NOT SUPPORTED BY
PROBABLE CAUSE.
WE HEARD A LOT ABOUT AN
INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION.
I THINK THE WORDS THAT SHE USED
WORD -- WERE DETAIL AND DEPTH
INVESTIGATION.
OVER 15 MONTHS SINCE THAT
ANNOUNCEMENT BY COLLEAGUES AND
MYSELF ARE STILL WAITING AND
LOOKING TO SEE AND HEAR ABOUT
THIS INDEPENDENT IN-DEPTH
INVESTIGATION.
WE WERE ABLE OVER THE PAST 15
MONTHS TO REVIEW A NUMBER OF
PIECES OF EVIDENCE AND
DISCOVERY.
WE WERE ABLE TO REVEAL THE IN-
DEPTH INVESTIGATION BY THE
BALTIMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
OVER 30 OFFICERS WERE INVOLVED.
EVERYONE FROM THE CURRENT
COMMISSIONER DOWN.
THESE OFFICERS WERE NEUTRAL AND
INDEPENDENT.
THEY LOOKED AT WHAT THE
EVIDENCE WAS IN THEIR
INVESTIGATION AND VIEWED IT AS
AN ACCIDENT AND THAT'S WHAT WE
WERE ABLE TO SEE.
IN REVIEWING THE MATERIAL WE
ALSO FOUND THAT THERE WERE NOT
JUST LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS BUT
ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS THE
MARYLAND STATE POLICE AND FBI
THAT REACHED OUT TO THE STATE
ATTORNEY'S OFFICE OFFERING THE
OPPORTUNITY TO ASSIST THEM IN A
NEUTRAL INDEPENDENT AND
THOROUGH INVESTIGATION.
HOWEVER, WE WERE ABLE TO SEE
THAT THE STATE'S ATTORNEY'S
OFFICE DECLINED THAT
OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THE SUPPORT
AND GUIDANCE OF SOME OF THE
BEST INVESTIGATORS IN THIS
COUNTRY.
IN OUR REVIEW OF THE FACT WE
WERE ABLE TO LEARN THAT MISTER
GRAY AND HIS FRIENDS WERE OUT
ON THE CORNERS OF THE GILMORE
HOMES ON THE DAY.
THAT ACCORDING TO ONE OF HIS
OWN FRIENDS THAT THEY WERE READY
TO REACT AND SELL DRUGS.
THAT THIS FRIEND YIELD POLICE.
AT THAT POINT IN TIME IS WHEN
HE SAW THE STORY BEGIN TO
UNFOLD.
THAT IS WHEN MR. GRAY RAN.
AT THAT POINT IN TIME THE
OFFICERS DID WHAT THEY WERE
SUPPOSED TO DO AND THEY WERE
TRAINED TO DO WITH THE SUPREME
COURT PRECEDENTS SAYS THEY ARE
ALLOWED TO DO.
THEY STOP MR. GRAY AND
INVESTIGATED THE POTENTIAL OF A
CRIME.
THEY WERE ABLE TO FIND AND SEE
A KNIFE.
WHAT IS INTERESTING IS DURING
THE DISCOVERY PROCESS YOU HEARD
INITIALLY ON MAY 1 IS THAT THIS
KNIFE WAS LEGAL.
DURING THE DISCOVERY PROCESS WE
WERE ABLE TO FIND OUT THAT THE
CURRENT STATE ATTORNEY FOR
BALTIMORE CITY WAS PROSECUTING
30 YOUNG BLACK MEN FOR HAVING
THE SAME EXACT KNIFE DURING THE
SAME EXACT TIME..
THAT CAUSED US GREAT CONCERN.
WHY WOULD YOU TELL THE COMMUNITY
THAT THAT KNIFE IS IN FACT LEGAL
WHEN HE WERE PROSECUTING OTHERS
AND TELLING THEM THAT IT IS
EVEN LEGAL -- THAT IT IS
ILLEGAL.
ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT WE HAD
-- AND THERE ARE NUMEROUS ONCE.
TODAY SOMETHING THAT REALLY
BOTHERED ME IS THIS GAG ORDER.
THE STATE WISHED THAT THEY
WOULD HAVE NOT HAD THE GAG
ORDER SO THAT THEY COULD HAVE
TALKED TO EVERYONE.
THE STATE WERE THE ONES THAT
FILED THE REQUEST FOR THE GAG
ORDER.
THEY DON'T WANT THE GAG ORDER
BUT THEY FILED FOR THEMSELVES.
IN AMERICA WE HAVE TO
UNDERSTAND WE HAVE A CRIMINAL
JUSTICE SYSTEM.
WE STILL DO HAVE PROBLEMS
WITHIN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE
SYSTEM.
WE HAD A JUDGE FOR THE STATE
FOR SOME REASON HAS DECIDED WAS
-- DID NOT VIEW THE EVIDENCE IN
THE SAME LIGHT THEY WANTED HIM
TO VIEW IT AND.
THE THING THAT BOTHERS ME IS
THIS.
WE ALWAYS ATTACK THE CRIMINAL
JUSTICE SYSTEM.
WE HAVE TO LET THE JUSTICE
SYSTEM SPEAK FOR ITSELF.
IT GETS IT RIGHT.
WE HAVE A JUDGE THAT WORKED FOR
THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND
WE SAW THE INCIDENT THAT
HAPPENED IN LOUISIANA WE ASKED
FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
TO BE INVOLVED.
THIS JUDGE WAS A PERSON WHO
WOULD NORMALLY COME FOR THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
THIS PARTICULAR JUDGE
INVESTIGATED THE POLICE.
HE SPENT MONTHS DOING
INVESTIGATIONS AND CONVICTED
POLICE OFFICERS AROUND THE
COUNTRY.
YOU CAN GET A CONVICTION
AGAINST POLICE WHETHER A BENCH
TRIAL OR JURY TRIAL.
WHEN YOU DO NOT DO AN
INVESTIGATION AND YOU RUN AND
QUICKLY WANT TO AUTOMATICALLY
SAY THAT THESE OFFICERS ARE
GUILTY BECAUSE THEY ARE THE
POLICE THEN YOU PERPETRATE THE
FEAR THAT IS ALREADY THERE AND
DIVIDING THE COUNTRY.
EVERYBODY WANTS HIS TO FIND OUT
WHAT HAPPENED TO FREDDIE GRAY.
THE BALTIMORE CITY POLICE DID
THE INVESTIGATION AND THEY SAID
IT WAS AN ACCIDENT.
THE BALTIMORE CITY STATE'S
ATTORNEY'S OFFICE HAD AN
OPPORTUNITY TO DO AN IN-DEPTH
INVESTIGATION AND THEY DID NOT.
IT IS THE BALTIMORE STATE CITY
-- BALTIMORE CITY STATE'S
ATTORNEY'S OFFICE THAT HAS
DENIED JUSTICE TO THE FAMILY
AND TO THESE OFFICERS.
THESE OFFICERS WOULD LIKE TO
SUPPORT AND WOULD LIKE TO THANK
THEIR FAMILIES AND LOVED ONES
AND THE OUTPOURING OF THE
COMMUNITY.
ONE OF THESE OFFICERS WOKE UP
-- NOT ONE OF THESE OFFICERS
WOKE UP WANTING TO DO ANYTHING
NEGATIVE TO ANYONE.
AS A DEFENSE ATTORNEY I HAVE
SEEN GOOD AND BAD OFFICERS.
I HAVE SEEN OFFICERS THAT CARE
FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
IN CLOSING I WOULD LIKE TO SAY
GOD BLESS THE FREDDIE GLICK --
THE FREDDIE GRAY FAMILY, GOD
BLESS THE BALTIMORE CITY POLICE
OFFICERS THAT RISK THEIR LIFE
EVERY DAY FOR THE CITIZENS.
AND BALTIMORE CITY THE GREATEST
CITY IN AMERICA AS FAR AS I AM
CONCERNED WITH SOME OF THE
GREATEST PEOPLE IN AMERICA IT
IS TIME TO HEAL AND GOD BLESS
EVERYONE.
THANK YOU.
SO WHAT DID HAPPEN TO
FREDDIE GRAY?
I THINK IT IS PRETTY EVIDENT
FROM THE EVIDENCE AND FROM OUR
EXPERTS TELL US THERE WAS AN
INCIDENT WHERE HE FELL BACK AND
HIT HIS HEAD AT THE BACK
PORTION OF HIS NECK BETWEEN
STOPS FIVE AND SIX AND IN THAT
MOMENT OF TIME WHEN THE
OFFICERS FOUND HIM THEY MADE A
TELEPHONE CALL.
ONE OF THE THINGS THE PRESS IS
NOT KNOW IS NOT ONLY DID THEY
CALL IN THE VAN HIM BUT MY
CLIENT SERGEANT ALICIA AND
WHITE CALLED A SECOND TIME
BECAUSE THE AMBULANCE WAS TAKEN
SO LONG TO GET THERE.
WE CAN GO MORE IN-DEPTH AT A
LATER TIME THAT YOU WILL FIND
OUT THAT THE AMBULANCE GOT
THERE LATE.
ONE AMBULANCE WHICH LeBRON
LOCATION.
THESE ARE THE THINGS WE ARE