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Disciplinary Hearing for Officer in Freddie Gray's Death

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BALTIMORE (AP) - Attorneys in a police disciplinary hearing for a Baltimore police van driver spent much of the first day listening to a February interrogation of Officer Caesar Goodson by internal police investigators.

An attorney for the Baltimore Police Department focused on questions Goodson was asked by investigators about why he didn't take Freddie Gray to a hospital after Gray asked for medical attention soon after he was arrested in 2015.

Attorney Neil Duke also focused on how Goodson did not try to communicate with Gray during the van ride to a police station. He says Goodson should be fired.

Goodson said during the February interrogation that: "I didn't see anything that would concern me."

Gray was critically injured during the van ride and died about a week later. Testimony in the first day of the disciplinary hearing has ended for the day.

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.