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Sunday, May 3, 2015

Baltimore Protesters Celebrate, Defy Curfew After Officers Charged

By Fabienne Faur, Yahoo News
May 2, 2015


Protesters in Baltimore erupted in celebration and hundreds of people broke the city's curfew, a day after six police officers were charged over the death of an African-American man in their custody.

The death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray had sparked rioting and days of protests in the US East Coast port city over alleged police racism and brutality.

But the mood on the streets was drastically different on Saturday, with people singing and dancing as they cheered the charges including second-degree murder and manslaughter laid against the six police officers -- three of them black.

As calm gradually returned to the city, the governor of Maryland state urged residents to make Sunday a day of "prayer and peace".

"I pray that tomorrow will be a day of reflection and will serve as a foundation for how we all conduct ourselves in the days and months to come," Governor Larry Hogan said in a statement.


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