Prosecutors have called an officer facing charges in the arrest and subsequent death of Freddie Gray to testify at his colleague's trial.
Officer Garrett Miller is the state's 14th witness called to the stand in the trial for Officer Edward Nero. Both officers face assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment charges stemming from Gray's arrest. Nero's trial began Thursday.
Gray died April 19 of last year, a week after his neck was broken in the back of a police transport van while he was handcuffed and in leg irons, but left unrestrained by a seat belt.
Miller is awaiting trial.
Prosecutors say the officers unlawfully arrested Gray, and were negligent when they didn't buckle him into a seat belt. Nero's defense attorney has said that it was Miller, and not Nero, who actually arrested Gray, and that it is the wagon driver's responsibility to make sure prisoners are buckled in.
