USA: National Guard deployed in Baltimore as Freddie Gray protests mount

National Guard troops equipped with armoured vehicles and lethal weaponry have been dispatched to Baltimore Tuesday, after police and anti-police brutality protesters clashed overnight. Violence broke out just hours after the funeral of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who died in police custody on April 19, 2015. Gray’s family say he suffered a severe spinal injury, that his voice box was crushed and his neck was snapped before he went into a coma and died. Police reports indicate that these injuries were sustai