FOR MORE
THAN A YEAR WE ONLY KNEW HER BY
HER MUG SHOT.
TONIGHT SERGEANT ALICIA WHITE
STEPS OUT FROM BEHIND THE BLUE
LINE FOR THE TWO WEEKS THAT
BECAME A TIPPING POINT FOR HER
AND THE CITY SHE WANTS TO SERVE.
SERGEANT ALICIA WHITE CONTACT
WITH FREDDIE GRAY THAT APRIL
MORNING WAS LIMITED TO THE LAST
TWO STOPS OF THE WAGON RIDE SHE
WAS CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER
ASSAULT ANDLESS ENDANGERMENT.
THE CHARMS BEEN DROPPED BY THEY
LOOM OWE HER LIFE AND CAREER.
Reporter: SHE'S BEEN BACK IN
UNIFORM FOR THREE MONTHS.
ADMINISTRATIVE ROLE THESE DAYS
WAITING FOR AN INTERNAL REVIEW
CLEARING HER FOR A CHARGE THAT
WAS GIVEN 18 MONTHS AGO WITH THE
REVERENCE AND OPT TICKS THAT
STIRRED A NATION.
Reporter: THAT UP ENDED
CAREERS.
WHEN THE STATE'S ATTORNEY WAS
READING THE CHARGES.
ON THE STEPS OF THE WAR MEMORIAL
ON NATIONAL TELEVISION AND WHAT
SHE GOT TO YOUR NAME AND READ
THE CHARGES THAT WERE AGAINST
YOU, WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION?
I FELT BLIND SIDED.
I DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING AT ALL.
I WAS DEVASTATED.
I BROKE DOWN AND STARTED CRYING.
IT WAS HARD.
IT WAS A HARD PILL TO SPOL LOW.
Reporter: IN HER
TELEVISED INTERVIEW SHE'S
BREAKING HER SILENCE TO TELL HER
STORY.
THE FIRST OF THE SIX OFFICERS
ACCUSED IN THE DEATH OF FREDDIE
GRAY TO GO TO WANT RECORD.
WHILE THE CHARGES IN THE CASE
HAVE BEEN DROPPED AN INTERNAL
PROPOSE PREVENTS HER FROM --
TELL US WHAT SHE SAW OR WHAT SHE
DID TO HELP GRAY AT STOP SIX.
A MAN SHE SAYS SHE DIDN'T KNOW
WORKING JUST HER THIRD MONTH AS
A NEWLY MINTED SERGEANT.
Reporter: BUT A FAMILY SHE
SAYS SHE PRAYED FOR AS SHE
WATCHED THEM STRUGGLE WITH LOSS
AND A CITY DEINVOLVE.
THAT LOSS THE LOSS OF HIS
LIFE THE LOSS OF SEEING PROPERTY
DESTROYED.
THAT HURT.
TO E HAVE TO WATCH THAT.
OR TO SEE IT UNRAVEL.
Reporter: AND TO BE SO
CLOSELY CONNECTED TO IT.
EXACTLY.
BECAUSE LIKE I SAID THIS IS --
IT'S NOT LIKE I'M FROM SOMEWHERE
ELSE AND CAME TO BALTIMORE.
THIS IS HOME.
Reporter: ALICIA WHITE WAS
BORN AND RAISED IN NORTHWEST
BALTIMORE BUT WORSHIPPED HERE IN
THE WESTERN DISTRICT.
BLOCKS FROM WHERE GRAY WAS
ARRESTED AND WHERE HIS LEGACY
STILL LOOMS ON MURALS, AND ON
HER FACE IN THIS MUG SHOT THE
PICTURE THAT THROUGH THE LAST
YEAR AND A HALF HAS COME TO
DEFINE HER PUBLIC IMAGE.
I KNEW EVEN SEEING IT MYSELF
THAT WASN'T WHO I WAS.
YOU KNOW.
HAVING TO WALK AND PEOPLE LOOK
AT YOU AND FIGURE TWHOOTS YOU
YOU ARE.
I KNEW THAT WASN'T ME.
Reporter: WHAT DO YOU WANT
THIS COMMUNITY TO KNOW?
THAT I'M NOT THAT OFFICER
THAT WAS SEEN ON TV.
EN IN WALKING THE STREETS, YOU
KNOW, WHILE I WAS IN THIS AREA,
I THINK IF YOU WERE TO ASK
PEOPLE THAT KNEW ME THEY WOULD
SAY THAT WAS NOT THAT OFFICER.
Reporter: THE LAST 18 MONTHS
TOOK ITS TOLL ON HER CHARGED
WITH A FELONY SHE WASN'T GETTING
PAID FOR MORE THAN A YEAR AND
THE STRESS DERAILED A CAREER AND
LIFE SHE FELT SHE WAS JUST
STARTING.
Reporter: HOW DID THIS AFFECT
YOUR PERSONAL LIFE?
IT WAS A LOT.
WHAT THE RESPONSIBILITIES THAT I
MAY HAVE HAD I NO LONGER COULD
DO THOSE THINGS.
I HAD TO DEPEND ON MY FAMILY A
LOT FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT.
I WAS CURRENTLY ENGAGED AND MY
ENGAGEMENT IS NOW OVER.
THAT WAS HARD.
SO IT WAS AN EMOTIONALLY HARD
THING FOR ME TO SHARE.
Reporter: STILL ALICIA WHITE
LEANS ON HER FAITH AND HER
DESIRE TO SERVE.
ABSOLVED FROM ANY CRIMINALITY
FROM THE DEATH SHE'S AWAITING
FROM THE GREEN LIGHT FROM THE
POLICE DEPARTMENT TO SERVE
AGAIN.
IT DOESN'T DETER ME FROM WHAT
I SIGNED UP FOR IN 2010.
ABOUT PROTECTION, SERVICE AND
BEING ABLE TO GIVE BACK.
I'M FROM BALTIMORE.
SO THIS IS HOME FOR ME.
SO TO ABLE TO CONTINUE TO SERVE
THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH I GREW UP
IN, THAT'S IMPORTANT TO ME.
Reporter: WHITE SAYS IT'S HER
JOB.
IT'S HER CALLING.
GOING BACK TO BEING A COP WAS
ALWAYS WHAT SHE HOPED WAS ON THE
THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS PROCESS.
STEADFAST IN HER INNOCENCE
HOPING FOR THE CHANCE TO CLEAR
HER NAME FROM THE CHARGE SO
PUBLICLY LEVELED.
BY THE BALTIMORE STATE'S TOERP.
EVERYONE AT THE END OF THE
DAY HAS A JOB TO DO.
WHEN SHE STOOD ON THE WAR
MEMORIAL SHE HAD A JOB TO DO.
THOSE THAT SHE CAME UP WITH IS
SOMETHING SHE HAS TO LIVE WITH.
Reporter: ALICIA WHITE IS
CONFIDENT IF SHE HAD HER DAY IN
COURT SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN FOUND
NOT.
SO CONFIDENT SHE WAS PREPARED TO
CHOOSE A INJURY TRIAL.
TOMORROW NIGHT YOU WILL SEE
PARTS OF THE CASE HER ATTORNEY'S