President Obama Responds To Charges Against the ‘Freddie Gray Six’

At a press conference Friday morning, Maryland State Attorney for the City of Baltimore Marilyn Mosby delivered the news that six officers have been charged (at least five are in custody) in relation to the incident that took Freddie Gray’s life, and touched off serious unrest in the city. The charges range from second-degree murder to involuntary manslaughter, to assault. The news comes on the heels of a self-serving leak by police sources that absurdly suggested that Freddie Gray’s injuries were self-inflicted, a leak that was quickly proven false by the subject of that leak.

President Obama, who delivered lengthy remarks about the situation in Baltimore at a joint press conference earlier this week, reacted to the charges cautiously Friday morning. At a photo op in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, President Obama called for “due process” for the officers involved, and praised the citizens of Baltimore for restoring peace to the city. Watch…READ MORE

By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.