Gray’s death touched off days of rioting and looting and led to investigations by the U.S. Justice Department. All six officers in that case were acquitted or had their charges eventually dropped.
“If you go into the neighborhoods of Baltimore right now and ask whether the race of corrupt or untoward police officers matter, they would say absolutely not,” said Malcom Ruff, a trial lawyer with Murphy, Falcon & Murphy, the Baltimore law firm that represented Gray’s family in civil lawsuits.