A Baltimore grand jury has charged all six police officers accused in the death of Freddie Gray.  State Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby announced the revised charges yesterday, but the most serious charges – including second-degree murder – remained.

In case you forgot already, Gray suffered a severe spinal cord injury in police custody in April and died a week later.  His death sparked weeks of protests and later riots and looting in Baltimore.

There was a lot of criticism of Mosby when she brought her initial charges a few weeks ago — even calls for an independent prosecutor.  But now that the grand jury has returned an indictment which is pretty close to what she called for, the criticism will probably go away.

What is gone from the previous charges are the charges of false imprisonment.  And now we have a string of “reckless endangerment” charges.  All in all, these are probably better charges.  The breakdown:

• Officer Caesar Goodson: 2nd-degree depraved heart murder, involuntary manslaughter, 2nd degree negligent assault, manslaughter by vehicle by means of gross negligence, manslaughter by vehicle by means of criminal negligence, misconduct in office for failure to secure prisoner and failure to render aid, reckless endangerment
• Officer William Porter: Involuntary manslaughter, assault in the 2nd degree, misconduct in office, reckless endangerment
• Lieutenant Brian Rice: Involuntary manslaughter, assault in the 2nd degree, assault in the 2nd degree [second of two similar charges], misconduct in office, reckless endangerment
• Officer Edward Nero: Assault in the 2nd degree (intentional), assault in the 2nd degree (negligent), misconduct in office, reckless endangerment
• Sergeant Alicia White: Involuntary manslaughter, 2nd degree assault, misconduct in office, reckless endangerment
• Officer Garrett Miller: Intentional Assault in the 2nd degree, assault in the 2nd degree, negligent misconduct in office, reckless endangerment