I was in the 4th grade when the death of Freddie Gray occurred on April 19, 2015. I didn’t know what was happening, I just wanted to be a kid. It didn’t hit me until I saw it.

When you type in Freddie Gray’s name, the first thing that shows at the top of the Google search engine is “Freddie Gray riots”, not protests, but riots. Interestingly enough, events that happened prior to the riots were peaceful protests in front of the Western District police station in Baltimore, Maryland. The people demanded that they know how Gray was in a coma after being arrested. After Freddie Gray’s death, the outcome of police brutality, the riots began.