Justice Department Weighing Federal Civil Rights Probe of Entire Baltimore Police Department
Source: ABC News
By MIKE LEVINE
The Justice Department -- which has already opened a federal civil rights probe into the death of Baltimore native Freddie Gray -- is weighing whether to launch a separate civil rights probe into the Baltimore Police Department more broadly, as it did with the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department after the killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown last year.
Earlier Wednesday, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake urged the department’s Civil Rights Division to formally look into whether the Baltimore Police Department engages in a “pattern or practice” of discriminatory policing.
Shortly afterward, Justice Department spokeswoman Dena Iverson issued a statement saying that Attorney General Loretta Lynch had received a request from Rawlings-Blake for the federal investigation and “is actively considering” it “in light of what she heard from law enforcement, city officials, and community, faith and youth leaders” during a visit to Baltimore on Tuesday.
She and other Justice Department officials also met with Gray’s family, which Lynch called a “privilege.”
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Freddie Grey, pictured in this undated photo, died Sunday, one week after he was arrested in Baltimore. Courtesy Murphy, Falcon & Murphy
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