Eliott C. McLaughlin and Aaron Cooper

May 23, 2016

Perhaps no one found Baltimore police Officer Edward Nero’s not-guilty verdict Monday so surprising.

But to hear the families of Nero and of Freddie Gray, the young black man who Nero was accused of assaulting, both lauding the judge who handed down the decision? Surely no one saw that coming.
While Nero released a statement saying he and his family were “elated” with the ruling, Gray family attorney Billy Murphy, too, applauded the decision, saying, “You can’t convict people unless you know the evidence,” and that Judge Barry Williams had followed the law as he saw it.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/23/us/freddie-gray-trial-officer-edward-nero/