Lieutenant Brian Rice, whom was the highest ranking officer in the Freddie Gray case is being reinstated into his job and will receive $127k in back wages. He could still face departmental disciplinary action said the mayor, Stephanie Rawlings Blake. Nonetheless, the back pay will come in handy for Rice who has not received a paycheck due to the corruption of prosecutor Marilyn Mosby. He should never have been charged and certainly not for the overreaching charges she brought.
To top it off and make it worse, she actually framed them by withholding exculpatory eveidence.
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Evidence Mounts That Baltimore Prosecutor Mosby May Have Framed 6 Cops
For her corrupt way of dealing with the charges, she is facing disbarment proceedings:
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Disbarment Charges are Filed Against Baltimore State Attorney Marilyn Mosby
On April 12 of last year, Gray fled from police after making eye contact with an officer. He was subsequently arrested and charged with carrying a switchblade knife, which is illegal in Baltimore City. Prosecutors argued that the knife was not a switchblade, and that Gray’s arrest was thus unlawful. While being transported to the police station, Gray was not secured in the van with a seatbelt, which was against police regulations. During the ride, he suffered severe injuries that put him in a week-long coma before he died.
As the highest-ranking of the six officers involved in Gray’s arrest and transport, Rice should have made sure that the 25-year-old was seatbelted in the van, as required by department protocol, prosecutors argued. However, defense lawyers said that Rice made the correct decision because Gray was being combative and a hostile crowd was looking on.
In July the Board of Estimates approved a payment of nearly $88,000 to Officer Caesar Goodson, who drove the van and was also acquitted in a bench trial. The charges against the remaining officers were all dropped in July.
The lieutenant still faces an administrative review by the Baltimore PD, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has said.