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The first effort to convict an officer in Freddie Gray’s death from a broken neck in a Baltimore Police van ended Wednesday with a hung jury and a mistrial.

It’s unclear at this point whether Porter will be retried.

It is expected a new trial date will be set for Porter as early as tomorrow.

However, Gray’s family called for peace. Prosecutors reportedly requested that Porter be tried first because he is a material witness in the cases of White and Goodson. We are not at all upset with them, neither should the public be upset.

Councilman Carl Stokes, a Democratic candidate for mayor, said he thought the jury had done their best toward reaching a verdict. Porter is also black, as are two of the other five officers charged. “That’s mainly what I want the community to know and feel and hear … it’s not over”, Alston said. “We are calm. You should be calm, too”.

“With great power comes great responsibility”, Bledsoe said.

As we reported Tuesday, “Officer Porter, 26, is a two-year veteran of the Baltimore police force”.

“Whatever the verdict, we need everyone in our city to respect the judicial process”, Rawlings-Blake said.

State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s office issued a statement saying she and prosecutors could not comment, citing the gag order imposed on all the cases related to Gray’s death.

“Whether you agree or whether you disagree with the jury’s ultimate verdict, our reaction has to be one of respect in Baltimore’s neighborhoods”, she said. His lawyers have said that Porter acted as any reasonable officer would have.

“I think the state’s attorney went in there with the intention of losing”, Davis said. On their second day of deliberations, the jury discussed the trial for six hours before sending a note to Williams to say they were deadlocked. “It’s not”, he told reporters. “This is the road to more equal justice in our community”.

“We will protect our neighbourhoods, our businesses and the people of our city”.

While Hogan says people have the right to express their frustrations and protest in a peaceful manner, the Republican governor is asking: “Where are the people protesting the 330 people murdered?”

After Gray’s funeral in late April, violence escalated into riots around parts of the city.

“We can not and will not be defined by the unrest of last spring”, she said.

Baltimore police canceled leave for officers who had days off from Monday through Friday.

Porter and the defense and the prosecution attorneys all looked tense when the judge spoke to them privately before making the announcement to the court. “Folks who choose to commit crimes…are no longer protesters”.

Tessa Hill-Acton, president of the Baltimore chapter of the NAACP, also called for protests to remain peaceful. Police officers were lined up outside the courthouse. During the trial, prosecutors were forced to admit that Gray had a prior back injury that allegedly occurred the month before he was arrested.

Bledsoe showed jurors the unfastened seat belt: “It’s got Gray’s blood on it”, she said. There is no statutory maximum sentence for the fourth charge, misconduct. In August, a North Carolina jury deadlocked in the trial of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Officer Randall Kerrick.