Pulitzer committee gets Freddie Gray’s death wrong

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The Pulitzer committee claimed incorrectly this week that Freddie Gray was shot and killed by a law enforcement officer, when the 25-year-old Baltimore man actually died of a spinal cord injury sustained while in police custody.

The committee’s bungle came as it announced that the staff of the Baltimore Sun had been named as a finalist in 2016’s best in “Breaking News Reporting.”

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