BALTIMORE (AP) - Baltimore police officers involved in arresting Freddie Gray who later suffered a fatal injury inside a police van have testified at a disciplinary hearing for the police officer who drove the van.
Officer Edward Nero told a three-member disciplinary board on Tuesday that Gray "was not showing any signs of a medical emergency," when he was first arrested and placed into the van in April 2015.
Nero also testified that Gray hadn't been fastened in the van because a crowd had started yelling at officers and they wanted to get out of the area quickly.
But an attorney for the police department says Officer Caesar Goodson should be fired for failing to secure the handcuffed and shackled prisoner in a safety belt and for neglecting to take Gray to a hospital. Officers testified there wasn't a crowd of onlookers at some of the subsequent stops, when Gray could have been put in a seatbelt before he was later injured during the ride to a police station.
The second day of testimony in the disciplinary case has ended for the day.
