Baltimore, September 9 (RHC)-- In the U.S. city of Baltimore, municipal authorities have reached a tentative $6.4 million settlement with the family of Freddie Gray, an African-American man who died in April after being arrested and transported without a seat belt in a police van.
His family said his spine was 80 percent severed at the neck. Police said they arrested him for making eye contact with them, then running away. Six Baltimore police officers are currently facing criminal prosecution over his death.