Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Baltimore (CNN) Perhaps no one found Baltimore police Officer Edward Nero's not-guilty verdict Monday so surprising. But to hear the families of Nero and of Freddie Gray, the young black man who Nero was accused of assaulting, both lauding the judge who handed down the decision? Surely no one saw that coming. While Nero released a statement saying he and his family were "elated" with the ruling, Gray family attorney Billy Murphy, too, applauded the decision, saying, "You can't convict people unless you know the evidence," and that Judge Barry Williams had followed the law as he saw it. After a bench trial, Williams found Nero not guilty of all charges in connection with Gray's death last year.Edward Nero sobbed upon hearing not guilty verdict in Freddie Gray caseNero found not guilty of all charges in Gray case, including 2nd-degree intentional assaultGray's April 19, 2015, death became a symbol of the black community's distrust of police 
 Question:3, said in a statement that Nero was pleased with the verdict but concerned that five other officers, _'s "good friends, must continue to fight these baseless accusations."

Edward Nero