Baltimore riots: Police will not make public a report into Freddie Gray's death this Friday

Results of preliminary probe will be passed to state prosecutor

Baltimore police have said they are not going to not going to issue a report on the death of Freddie Gray, who died earlier this month of a spinal injury suffered while in police custody.

In a move that may have been taken to try and defuse tension and lower the potential for further violence, police said they will instead turn over the department’s findings to prosecutors.

“There is not a report that is going to be issued,” Captain Eric Kowalczyk of the Baltimore Police Department said, according to the Associated Press.

The US Department of Justice is conducting a separate probe into possible civil rights violations. But Reuters said that many residents still want some action from the police. On Wednesday evening, crowds of peaceful protesters started gathering again.

“It doesn't have to be all of them, we don’t want to be told some story. We want to know the truth,” Kevin Eaton, a 52-year-old musician, told the news agency.

Mr Eaton, who lived through the Los Angeles riots in 1992, said the city would need to repair relations between the police and the community.

“I don’t want our children to come outside and see the police treat them as criminals,” he said.

Mr Gray had been arrested on April 12 after fleeing from police in a high-crime area and was carrying a switchblade knife. He died a week later and after his funeral on Monday, some rioters went on the rampage.