BALTIMORE (AP) - Baltimore Police Officer William Porter is set to face a jury in the first trial stemming from the death of Freddie Gray.
Court spokeswoman Terri Charles says the 12 jurors will be seated Wednesday in Baltimore Circuit Court. She says opening statements also could be heard Wednesday.
The prospective jurors are from a pool of 150 questioned Monday and Tuesday by Judge Barry Williams, mostly out of public view.
Porter has pleaded not guilty to charges of manslaughter, second-degree assault, misconduct and reckless endangerment. He's among six officers charged in the case.
Gray was a 25-year-old black man who died in April from injuries he suffered in police custody. His death triggered protests and rioting, and helped fuel the Black Lives Matter movement.
Porter is also African American.
CNN
NEW YORK (AP) - Following protests online, CNN removed a description of Baltimore's Freddie Gray as "the son of an illiterate heroin addict" in a story posted about the first police officer about to go on trial for Gray's death last spring while in police custody.
Several tweets suggested that the reference amounted to victim blaming. Gray, who is black, died after being driven around in a police van in a case that drew wide attention to the issue of police treatment of minorities.
The print story, originally posted Monday, was changed that evening to remove the description of Gray's mother. In an editor's note, CNN said the reference was deleted "because it appeared out of context."
CNN had no comment on Tuesday about the change. Gray is described in both versions of the story as a symbol of the black community's distrust of police.
Song
BALTIMORE (AP) - Dru Hill, an R&B group that started in Baltimore, have released a song online inspired by the death of Freddie Gray and other fatal incidents involving young black men.
The Huffington Post made available a 2-minute preview of "Change" on its website Monday. The song's release came on the first day of jury selection in the trial of the first of six police officers charged in Gray's death.
The song's lyrics reference Tamir Rice, Mike Brown and others who died in incidents involving police officers.
Dru Hill was most popular in the 1990s, with songs such as "Never Make a Promise and "In My
