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		</div><p>The remaining charges against three Baltimore police officers awaiting trial over the death of black man Freddie Gray have been dropped.</p>
<p>Prosecutors blamed police for a biased investigation that failed to yield any convictions.</p>
<p>Mr Gray was 25 when his neck was broken while he was handcuffed and shackled but left unrestrained in the back of a police van in April 2015.</p>
<p>His death added fuel to the growing Black Lives Matter movement, setting off massive protests in Baltimore and leading to the worst riots the city had seen in decades.</p>
<p>The decision by prosecutors came after a judge acquitted three of the six officers charged in the case, including the van driver who the state considered the most responsible and another officer who was the highest-ranking of the group.</p>
<p>A mistrial was declared for a fourth officer when a jury reached deadlock.</p>
<p>The case led the police department to overhaul its use of force policy, and all officers will soon be equipped with body-worn cameras.</p>
<p>The US Justice Department has also launched an investigation into allegations of widespread abuse and unlawful arrests by the department.</p>
<p>The officers have sued State&#8217;s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, saying she intentionally filed false charges against them.</p>
<p>Mr Gray&#8217;s family received a settlement of $6.4m from the city.</p>
<p>A defiant Ms Mosby held a news conference shortly after the announcement, saying there was &#8220;a reluctance&#8221; and &#8220;an obvious bias&#8221; among some officers investigating the case.</p>
<p>&#8220;We do not believe Freddie Gray killed himself,&#8221; she said, standing in the neighbourhood where Mr Gray was arrested, a mural of him on a wall over her shoulder.</p>
<p>&#8220;We stand by the medical examiner&#8217;s determination that Freddie Gray&#8217;s death was a homicide.&#8221;</p>
<p>She walked up to the podium as people chanted &#8220;We&#8217;re with you&#8221; and her remarks were punctuated by shouts of support.<br />
Mr Gray&#8217;s mother, Gloria Darden, stood by Ms Mosby, saying police lied.</p>
<p>&#8220;I know they lied, and they killed him,&#8221; she said.<br />
Attorneys for the officers also planned a news conference.</p>
<p>The day started with a pretrial hearing for Officer Garrett Miller &#8211; who had faced assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment charges.</p>
<p>But chief deputy state&#8217;s attorney Michael Schatzow told the judge that prosecutors were dropping the charges against Officer Miller and the rest of the officers.</p>
<p>Prosecutors had said Mr Gray was arrested illegally after he ran away from a bike patrol officer and the officers failed to buckle him into a seat belt or call a medic when he indicated he wanted to go to a hospital.</p>
<p>Ms Mosby wasted little time in announcing charges after Mr Gray&#8217;s death &#8211; one day after receiving the police department&#8217;s investigation while a tense city was still under curfew &#8211; and she did not shy from the spotlight.</p>
<p>She posed for magazine photos, sat for TV interviews and even appeared on stage at a Prince concert in Mr Gray&#8217;s honour.</p>
<p>The city&#8217;s troubles forced Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who has taken a prominent role on the podium at the Democratic National Convention, to fire her reform-minded police chief and abandon her re-election campaign.</p>
<p>Many feared that the acquittals could prompt more protests and unrest, but they never happened and the streets appeared mostly calm on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The Gray case has not fit quite so neatly into the narrative of white authorities imposing unfair justice on minorities.</p>
<p>Three of the officers who were charged are white and three are black. The victim, judge, top prosecutor and mayor are African-American, as was the police chief at the time of Mr Gray&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>No reputations hinged on the case&#8217;s outcome as much as Ms Mosby and her husband, Nick Mosby, a councillor for Baltimore&#8217;s west side who announced his mayoral candidacy shortly after Ms Rawlings-Blake pulled out.</p>
<p>Marilyn Mosby said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve all bore witness to an inherent bias that is a direct result of when police police themselves.&#8221;</p>
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