BALTIMORE (AP) –
A judge has granted the Justice Department’s request to postpone a hearing on a proposed consent decree involving Baltimore’s police department to give officials time to brief the new administration of President Donald Trump.
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U.S. District Judge James Bredar noted Friday that the city didn’t object to the delay. He put off the hearing from Tuesday to Feb. 1.
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The Justice Department and the city signed the decree last week to settle to a complaint filed by the Justice Department based on its investigation of the police department. The investigation began after the 2015 death of a young, black man, Freddie Gray, who was injured in a police van.