Five years earlier and over a thousand miles away in Baltimore, Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Black man, uttered those same words, "I can't breathe," while in police custody, according to trial testimony. Many legal experts, including the Hennepin County attorney who prosecutes cases in Minneapolis, drew the comparison between the Gray case and the Floyd case. Freddie Gray and George Floyd had fatal encounters with police about five years apart. The Gray case turned out to be a failed prosecution: None of the six Baltimore officers arrested were convicted. "The biggest difference between the Minneapolis case and the Freddie Gray case is that in the Freddie Gray case there was no video, which led people to speculate both ways."

Source: CNN July 17, 2020 11:37 UTC