May 11, 2015

The Baltimore Sun was granted exclusive access to a task force responsible for the investigation of Freddie Grays death and monitored the investigation for days. The Sun agreed not to publish details about the investigation until Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby decided whether to prosecute any of the officers involved in the Gray incident, though reporters continued to use other sources for information. On Friday, she announced charges against six officers.

: Baltimore Police crime lab recording technician Thomas Wisner pauses from driving a department vehicle equipped with a LiDAR mobile mapping system, to take photos of a burned CVS store on W. Franklin as the loaned LiDAR device scans the area using a combination of laser scans and photo imaging. Students had mounted a protest last week which sparked an uprising and international awareness of alleged police brutality in response to the death of Freddie Gray after he was taken into custody Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: Standing at Gilmor Homes, (from left) Baltimore Police Detective Michael Boyd, crime lab recording technician Thomas Wizman and DetectiveTimothy Hamilton check logs of sophisticated image-gathering equipment which scans the terrain and its contents to gain a 360-degree, high-resolution visual of the area, look on a map in order to scan the route where a police transport van had allegedly taken, as Baltimore Police scour the area to dig up any clues or evidence while investigating the death of resident Freddie Gray, 25. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: Detective Timothy Hamilton prepares sophisticated image-gathering equipment to scan the terrain and its contents on Bruce Court behind Gilmor Homes at Presbury Street, to gain a 360-degree, 3-D high-resolution visual of the area as Baltimore Police scour the area to dig up any clues or evidence while investigating the death of resident Freddie Gray, 25, after he was taken into police custody. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: Baltimore Police Detective Timothy Hamilton looks behind as oncoming traffic swerve to avoid him while crime lab recording technician Thomas Wizman (behind) sets up and use sophisticated image-gathering equipment which scans the terrain and its contents to gain a 360-degree, high-resolution visual of the area at the Head Start at Dolphin Street and Druid Hill Avenue, to scan the route where a police transport van had allegedly taken, as Baltimore Police scour the area to dig up any clues or evidence while investigating the death of resident Freddie Gray, 25. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: Crime lab recording technician Thomas Wizman sets up and use sophisticated image-gathering equipment which scans the terrain and its contents to gain a 360-degree, high-resolution visual of the area at the Head Start at Dolphin Street and Druid Hill Avenue, to scan the route where a police transport van had allegedly taken, as Baltimore Police scour the area to dig up any clues or evidence while investigating the death of resident Freddie Gray, 25. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

$Baltimore Police Major Stanley Brandford (sitting at head of table) leads a meeting inside the Professional Standards & Accountability Bureau of the Deputy Commissioner's Office, where investigators review and continue their internal investigation at department headquarters. Much of the internal investigation were recently handed over to the city state's attorney's office, who today announced charges against six officers who confronted and then placed Freddie Gray into custody on April 12, eventually resulting in what was ruled a homicide of the 25-year-old West Baltimore resident seven days later. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun \$: Baltimore Police Major Stanley Brandford (sitting at head of table) leads a meeting inside the Professional Standards & Accountability Bureau of the Deputy Commissioner’s Office, where investigators review and continue their internal investigation at department headquarters. Much of the internal investigation were recently handed over to the city state’s attorney’s office, who today announced charges against six officers who confronted and then placed Freddie Gray into custody on April 12, eventually resulting in what was ruled a homicide of the 25-year-old West Baltimore resident seven days later. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun \

: Baltimore Police Major Stanley Brandford leads a meeting inside the Professional Standards & Accountability Bureau of the Deputy Commissioner’s Office, where investigators review and continue their internal investigation at department headquarters. Much of the internal investigation were recently handed over to the city state’s attorney’s office, who today announced charges against six officers who confronted and then placed Freddie Gray into custody on April 12, eventually resulting in what was ruled a homicide of the 25-year-old West Baltimore resident seven days later. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: Addressing the group of investigators, Dr. David L. Higgins, MD, P.C. gives his opinion about injuries or blood flow to the lower extremities at the position demonstrated by police training instructors (left) while Baltimore Police Major Stanley Brandford (standing next to Higgins) as the instructors attempt to mimic the position known as a “leg lace” in which Freddie Gray was when he was placed under arrest after watching a cellphone video of the arrest, during a meeting inside the Professional Standards & Accountability Bureau of the Deputy Commissioner’s Office, where investigators review and continue their internal investigation at department headquarters. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: Standing at Gilmor Homes, (from left) Baltimore Police Detective Michael Boyd, crime lab recording technician Thomas Wizman and DetectiveTimothy Hamilton check logs of sophisticated image-gathering equipment which scans the terrain and its contents to gain a 360-degree, high-resolution visual of the area, look on a map in order to scan the route where a police transport van had allegedly taken, as Baltimore Police scour the area to dig up any clues or evidence while investigating the death of resident Freddie Gray, 25, after he was taken into police custody. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: A Baltimore Police department vehicle equipped with a LiDAR mobile mapping system, is powered back on by Robert Graham (red shirt), representing LiDAR USA as the loaned LiDAR device scans the East Baltimore area using a combination of laser scans and photo imaging. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: Baltimore Police crime lab recording technician Thomas Wisner drives a department vehicle equipped with a LiDAR mobile mapping system, accompanied by Robert Graham (red shirt), representing LiDAR USA as the loaned LiDAR device scans the burned Rite Aid store on Martin Luther King Av using a combination of laser scans and photo imaging. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: Baltimore Police Detective Timothy Hamilton looks behind as oncoming traffic swerve to avoid him while crime lab recording technician Thomas Wizman (behind) sets up and use sophisticated image-gathering equipment which scans the terrain and its contents to gain a 360-degree, high-resolution visual of the area at the Head Start at Dolphin Street and Druid Hill Avenue, to scan the route where a police transport van had allegedly taken, as Baltimore Police scour the area to dig up any clues or evidence while investigating the death of Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: Robert Graham (red shirt), representing LiDAR USA installs a GoLook 360 camera cluster onto a Snoopy mobile mapping system on a vehicle for Baltimore Police crime lab recording technician Thomas Wisner (left) to drive, which will scan the area using a combination of laser scans and photo imaging. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: Crime lab recording technician Thomas Wizman sets up and use sophisticated image-gathering equipment which scans the terrain and its contents to gain a 360-degree, high-resolution visual of the area at the Head Start at Dolphin Street and Druid Hill Avenue, to scan the route where a police transport van had allegedly taken, as Baltimore Police scour the area to dig up any clues or evidence while investigating the death of resident Freddie Gray, 25. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: Baltimore Police crime lab recording technician Thomas Wisner pauses from driving a department vehicle equipped with a LiDAR mobile mapping system, to take photos of a burned CVS store on Franklin Ave as the loaned LiDAR device scans the area using a combination of laser scans and photo imaging. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: Baltimore Police crime lab recording technician Thomas Wisner drives a department vehicle equipped with a LiDAR mobile mapping system, as the loaned LiDAR device scans the area using a combination of laser scans and photo imaging. Students had mounted a protest last week which sparked an uprising and international awareness of alleged police brutality in response to the death of Freddie Gray after he was taken into custody on April 12. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: Baltimore Police crime lab recording technician Thomas Wisner drives a department vehicle equipped with a LiDAR mobile mapping system, as the loaned LiDAR device scans the area using a combination of laser scans and photo imaging. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: Pedestrians react to a LiDAR device atop a vehicle driven by Baltimore Police crime lab recording technician Thomas Wisner, who pauses on Mount Street with a department vehicle equipped with the loaned LiDAR device which scans the area using a combination of laser scans and photo imaging. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: Baltimore Police crime lab recording technician Thomas Wisner drives a department vehicle equipped with a LiDAR mobile mapping system on North and Pennsylvania Avenues, showing Robert Graham (red shirt), representing LiDAR USA the burned CVS Pharmacy as the loaned LiDAR device scans the area using a combination of laser scans and photo imaging. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: A GoLook 360 camera cluster sticks above a Snoopy mobile mapping system on a vehicle for Baltimore Police crime lab recording technician Thomas Wisner to drive, which will scan the area using a combination of laser scans and photo imaging. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: Baltimore Police Major Stanley Brandford (sitting at head of table) leads a meeting inside the Professional Standards & Accountability Bureau of the Deputy Commissioner’s Office, where investigators review and continue their internal investigation at department headquarters. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: Baltimore Police Major Stanley Brandford leads a meeting inside the Professional Standards & Accountability Bureau of the Deputy Commissioner’s Office, where investigators review and continue their internal investigation at department. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: Robert Graham (red shirt), representing LiDAR USA gathers more gear as a GoLook 360 camera cluster sticks above a Snoopy mobile mapping system. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

: Addressing the group of investigators, Dr. David L. Higgins, MD, P.C. looks at an enlargement of a frame from a cellphone video with Baltimore Police Major Stanley Brandford while police training instructors (left) mimic the position known as a “leg lace” in which Freddie Gray was when he was placed under arrest after watching a cellphone video of the arrest, during a meeting inside the Professional Standards & Accountability Bureau of the Deputy Commissioner’s Office, where investigators review and continue their internal investigation at department headquarters. Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

Officers assigned to the task force had been working for two weeks to complete an investigation that might otherwise have taken months. They canvassed West Baltimore for witnesses and mapped out the locations of security camera footage. To recreate Gray’s 45-minute ride in a police van, plainclothes officers rolled a $250,000 laser imaging system on a tripod down potholed roads and cracked sidewalks, ready to tell residents who questioned them that they were city surveyors.

Behind the scenes of the Freddie Gray investigation

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