There’s no dispute that police shot Keith Davis but as he nurses his wounds 200 days later from jail and awaits trial – he’s fighting against criminal chargesOn 7 June 2015,Baltimore was still reeling from the unrest that had put thousands of citizens at odds with battalions of police dressed in riot gear in the aftermath of the death of Freddie Gray. May had been the city’s most violent month since the 1970s. More than 40 people had been murdered in the city and more than 100 others non-fatally shot in the month since the hopeful day when states attorney Marilyn Mosby told the city that she felt its pain as she announced she would press charges against the officers tied to Gray’s death in the back of a police van.
Residents and police alike were expressing confusion and anxiety, as some claimed officers were in the middle of a “slowdown” in retaliation against city leadership. So when reports of a shoot-out between a suspect and officers came out, and no one was surprised – or particularly outraged. The local newspaper ran a account based on the police reports,which said that the man, Keith Davis Jr, or had robbed an unlicensed cab driver with a pistol and fled from the police to a garage,where he refused to give up his weapon and was shot at numerous times before being hit in the arm and the face and surrendering.
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Source: theguardian.com