A jury found a man not guilty on Thursday of attempted first- and second-degree murder on allegations that he tried to kill a Baltimore Police sergeant during a traffic stop in Park Heights, leaving him with critical injuries.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Jeannie J. Hong declared a mistrial on the four remaining charges against Joseph Black,. Those counts consist of first- and second-degree assault and illegal possession of a regulated firearm. That’s after the jury indicated that some members were resolute in their views and could not reach a unanimous verdict on those offenses.

Black, 37, was accused of trying to kill Sgt. Kenneth Ramberg when he dragged him during a traffic stop on Park Heights Avenue near Spaulding Avenue on June 28, 2022.

When the partial verdict was read, Ramberg, who sat in the courtroom gallery with his wife, Luana, slightly shook his head. The court clerk, at the request of the state, then polled members of the jury: “You heard the verdict read by your foreperson. Is your verdict the same?”

Jurors walked past Ramberg and his loved ones when filing out of the courtroom in the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Courthouse.

In a lengthy statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, Mike Mancuso, president of the Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3, wrote that the case would have been a “slam dunk” if it was not for a jury pool “tainted by all the anti-police nonsense that exists in our current culture.”

Mancuso told members to remember the case as they go about their shifts.

“Sgt. Ramberg put it all on the line for Baltimore!” Mancuso said. “The jury failed him and all the decent people who live/work and visit Baltimore.”

During the trial, Ramberg testified that he pulled over a car for a routine traffic violation and then spotted a handgun on the floor. Next, he said, he felt his body being dragged up Park Heights Avenue. He said he cannot remember portions of the encounter.

He said he suffered a traumatic brain injury and now uses a cane to walk.

Meanwhile, Black testified in his own defense and claimed that he sold drugs for the police and owed them money.

Black testified that he said he did not realize that the sergeant was hanging off the side of the vehicle.

The jury watched video of the traffic stop from Ramberg’s body camera. Ramberg reaches into the open driver side window and fights with Black over the steering wheel as the vehicle speeds off.

“Dude, stop,” Ramberg shouts. “Stop, bro.”

The video shows Ramberg hitting the street and breaking into screams for the several minutes until he loses consciousness.

In her closing argument, Assistant State’s Attorney Twila Driggins said Black had time to stop the car and asserted that his story did not make sense.

Driggins opposed the judge taking a partial verdict and asked for a mistrial on all counts.

But Assistant Public Defender Isabel Lipman, Black’s attorney, described what happened as a terrible accident and alleged that police officers zeroed in on her client as he was minding his own business.

Lipman asked the judge to take the partial verdict.

“Your honor,” Lipman said, “uncertainty is built into the jury process.”

Then-Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison and Mayor Brandon Scott at the time spoke to reporters outside Maryland Shock Trauma.

“The officer was doing exactly what we want them to do — out there being proactive, making sure citizens are being protected, finding people who are doing harm, and making sure the Northwest District is a safe place,” Harrison said.

Driggins said the state intends to retry Black on the remaining counts. He’s being held without bail in the Chesapeake Detention Facility, according to jail records.