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Baltimore police: Gangs team up to "take out" officers

The same day as Freddie Gray's funeral officials with the Baltimore Police Department said that they received "credible information" that members of several gangs are teaming up to take out law enforcement officers.
Demonstrators march through the streets protesting the death Freddie Gray, an African American man who died of spinal cord injuries in police custody, in Baltimore, Maryland, April 25, 2015.

BALTIMORE (WUSA9) -- The same day as Freddie Gray's funeral officials with the Baltimore Police Department said that they received "credible information" that members of several gangs are teaming up to take out law enforcement officers. Gray's funeral was held on Monday.

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According to police, the Black Guerilla Family, Bloods and Crips are some of the gangs that have entered into the partnership.

"Law enforcement agencies should take appropriate precautions to ensure the safety of their officers," the department says in a press release.

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Twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing a switch blade knife April 12 in Baltimore. Gray died a week later in the hospital from a severe spinal cord injury he received while in police custody, according to an attorney.

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