More than 1,000 march in Baltimore to protest black man's death
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More than 1,000 demonstrators chanting "shut it down" marched through Baltimore on Saturday to protest the death of a black man who died after being taken into police custody.
Baltimore's police commissioner said on Friday that Freddie Gray, 25, had been denied timely medical attention for a spinal injury suffered after police apprehended him following a foot chase. Police have not explained how he sustained the injury.
At least 1,500 people had gathered by midafternoon at the spot in West Baltimore where Gray had been detained on April 12 by a police patrol and placed inside a transport van. Gray died on Sunday, a week after his arrest.
Gray's death is the latest in a series of deaths of black men that have triggered an outcry in the United States over the use of excessive force by law enforcement.
