Baltimore OKs $6.4 million settlement to Freddie Gray family

[Yahoo! News]

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Baltimore city officials on Wednesday approved a $6.4 million civil settlement to the family of Freddie Gray, a black man whose death from an injury in police custody triggered protests and rioting. The unanimous vote by the Board of Estimates comes ahead of a Thursday hearing on moving the trials of six police officers charged in Gray's death out of the city. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, a member of the financial control panel, said the payment would resolve any related civil claims against Baltimore and avoid possibly years of federal litigation over Gray's death.

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