article_snippet.sent: The Justice Department said Tuesday The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into the death of Gray, a black man who suffered a spinal-cord injury while in a police van.
article_snippet.sent: Federal investigation: The protets erupted just as The Justice Department announced The Justice Department had launched an investigation in the the 25-year-old's mysterious death .
article_snippet.sent: Justice Department spokeswoman Dena Iverson said investigators are 'gathering information to determine whether any prosecutable civil rights violation occurred.'
article_snippet.sent: Justice Department investigations in the last year include probes into the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri - a case that resulted in no charges against the officer - and an ongoing review of a police chokehold death of a New York City man.
highlights_snippet.sent: The Feds on Tuesday opened a civil rights investigation into the death of Gray, a black man who suffered a spinal-cord injury while in a police van .
  