Obama Sends Staffers to Freddie Gray Funeral

President Barack Obama is sending three representatives to attend the funeral for Freddie Gray on Monday in Baltimore, according to the Associated Press.

Gray is the 25-year-old who died in police custody April 19 from a spinal cord injury after an April 12 arrest that has prompted investigations by Baltimore Police, the U.S. Department of Justice and an independent group.

Brockerick Johnson, who chairs My Brother’s Keeper, a White House task force designed to bridge the opportunity gap for young black men, is scheduled to attend the funeral for Gray on Monday, as well as two other aides, according to the Associated Press.

Johnson also attended the funeral for Michael Brown on Aug. 25, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo., according to the New York Daily News, which reported Johnson hails from Baltimore.

The funeral for Freddie Gray will be at 11 a.m. on Monday, April 27, at New Shiloh Baptist Church, 2100 North Monroe Street in West Baltimore. Visitation will be held beforehand at 10 a.m.

“We (NSBC) open our doors to the Gray Family and our community that all might find comfort & strength in God,” the church posted on Facebook.

The funeral follows a week of protests and a wake held Sunday at Vaughn G. Greene East Funeral Home at 4905 York Road, where mourners paid their respects during an open casket visitation. Gray was reportedly wearing a white Los Angeles Dodgers hat, a white shirt, black pants and white sneakers, with a pillow inside the casket that said “Peace, Y’all.”

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