Family of Freddie Gray Gets Settlement from Baltimore Following Police-Related Death

The family of Freddie Gray, the young black man who died due to an injury suffered while being held by police in Baltimore back in April, has reportedly reached a settlement with the city to the tune of $6.4 million. Officials claim that the Board of Estimates voted on Wednesday.

The settlement will reportedly not affect the current trials of the six officers who are charged in the death of Gray, and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake assured reporters that it is also not an admission of guilt or liability on the city itself.

Gray's death, of course, was due to an injury to his spinal cord, for which he died a week after he was arrested. The video showing the young black man being manhandled by officers immediately went viral, and added yet another piece of media to the already lengthy list of such used against police officers that could spark racial tensions.

Of course, in Baltimore, it just added to the already supposedly racially-based tensions between police and citizens.

The six individual trials that were ordered upon at the hands of Judge Barry Williams – for each officer included in the aforementioned manhandle – include anything from second-degree murder to assault and misconduct.

Freddie Gray's video caused a mass uproar from the city of Baltimore, which Vice News reports has just about 620,000 denizens, most of whom are black. What followed, as we all know, were riots, looting and even more violence.

While Gray's family is undoubtedly feeling a (very) tiny sense of ease due to the settlement, USA Today reports that the Baltimore police chief finds it "obscene."

For more on Freddie Gray's family's settlement, head on over to Vice.