The Baltimore police officer Cesar Goodson, who was accused of the murder of an African American Freddy Gray, acquitted by the court.
Hudson was among six police officers, whose actions, according to the investigation, led to the death of 25-year-old Gray, became an occasion for mass protests.
Of the six police officers were charged Goodson most serious charges - second-degree murder. He faces up to 30 years in prison.
Goodson was driving a police van in which Gray drove to the department and where he received a fatal spine injury. The prosecution contended that the police deliberately made a "bumpy" in the car.
According to prosecutors, on the records of surveillance cameras it is clear that on the way to the police station the police Goodson Caesar ignored the sign "stop", and made a sharp turn, without slowing down.
According to police, Gray, walking down the street and met the gaze of a police patrol, suddenly ran away. When he was caught and put into a police van, he allegedly began to behave violently, and then handcuffed him.
When the young man was in a police van, bound hand and foot, he somehow got a spinal injury, from which he died a week later in the hospital.
On the day of the death of Gray in Baltimore began mass protests that turned into riots , which did not stop for several months and were accompanied by looting and arson.
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