Saturday's protests came a day after Baltimore's police commissioner conceded that police had failed to provide Gray with timely medical attention for a spinal injury he had suffered sometime after he was apprehended and put inside a transport van. Police have not explained how he sustained the injury. He died a week after his arrest on April 12.
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Six Baltimore police officers have been suspended in the Gray case, and an internal police investigation is under way.
Would the protests have stayed peaceful if not for outside interference? The family of Freddie Gray was begging for the violence, which led to the arrest of a dozen people, to stop. We'll never know because whenever a protest like this is planned, outside agitators show up and deliberately try to incide a race-war as we have seen time and time again in other recent cases, such as Michael Brown and Eric Garner.