It was a few days after the funeral for Freddie Gray, and the Baltimore streets that had exploded into violence this week had mostly calmed down.
But Lester Davis, a top aide to a Baltimore councilmember, told me that there were real, lingering concerns among the city's elected officials and community leaders about what might pop off at week's end, when the police department was set to hand over findings from its investigation into the murky circumstances surrounding Gray's death. Gray died after he was arrested by local police officers, with an array of severe injuries, including a severed spine, that were hard to explain. Officials had met with top police brass to discuss the heightened anxieties around what might happen on Friday, when the state's attorney, Marilyn Mosby, was expected to address the report.
[For more of this story, written by Gene Demby, go to http://www.npr.org/blogs/codes...-charges-against-cop]
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