Freddie Gray's Family Get $6.4 Million Settlement from Baltimore

The city of Baltimore will pay $6.4 million to the family of Freddie Gray, who died while riding in the back of a police van in an incident that fueled national concern about the treatment of minorities at the hands of the police and sparked a riot in Baltimore over the summer.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake announced that the city's Board of Estimates, which deals with things like contracts and expenditures, would make a final decision on the settlement and that it is not an admission of guilt or wrongdoing on behalf of the city or police officers being charged with Gray's death, according to The New York Times.

The payment will be doled out over the next two years, with Gray's family receiving $2.8 million this year and $3.6 million next year.

The case against the six officers involved in Gray's arrest, transport, and death is currently ongoing and a judge recently ruled the officers will be tried one at a time. The officers' lawyers are also pushing to have the case tried outside of Baltimore in the hopes of finding a more favorable jury.

The officers face an array of charges from negligence to manslaughter and murder. Gray was found with his spinal cord severed in the back of a police van that had only blocks to travel between the site of his arrest and the jail.

The case has garnered national headlines as part of a series of incidents like the death of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. The officers involved in their deaths were not brought up on any charges.