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Freddie Gray: Baltimore officer cleared of murder | |
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Baltimore police officer Caesar Goodson has been found not guilty in his trial for the murder of black detainee Freddie Gray. | |
He was found not guilty on a second-degree depraved heart murder charge, the most serious count sought against the six officers charged in the case. | |
The officer drove the van in which Mr Gray rode before he died. | |
The verdict is a blow to prosecutors, who have yet to win a conviction in the case. | |
Mr Gray, 25, was arrested in April 2015 for running away from police officers. He died a week after sustaining a spinal injury while in the back of a police van. | |
His death sparked civil unrest in Baltimore, amid a national debate on police brutality and the death of unarmed black men at the hands of police. |