As Saturday marked the 10th anniversary of Freddie Gray’s death, a pivotal moment that ignited national outrage and calls for police reform, dozens of people gathered in Baltimore to honor his life. They marched to Mondawmin Metro, spoke words of remembrance and memorialized Gray with a wreath-laying at a mural in his memory.

“Thank you to all y’all that supported us and been with us through the whole process,” Fredricka Gray said at the wreath-laying Saturday morning. “It’s still justice for Freddie Gray 10 years in.”

Protests in Baltimore and beyond erupted following Gray’s death. Not far from the memorial, a little over a dozen people crowded outside Penn-North Metro to march in Gray’s honor.

“This is from the heart right here. This is not a show or act,” Amos Jones, Gray’s friend and former barber, said.

Through West Baltimore’s busy streets, attendees trekked toward Mondawmin Metro near the site of a major protest just 10 years earlier that shifted the lives of many, including then-15-year-old Carrington Scott.

“I didn’t really know the best way to explain my feelings about it, but seeing the uprising happen and seeing the community fight back and retake the streets against the police and this culture of white supremacy was empowering,” said Scott, who is now in his 20s. “What I saw was people like me taking the city back, actually rising up and, for a moment there … truly liberated space.”

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