not as if there is a united friend. and officers will try to exploit that. and when there are divisions, there can be a race to the prosecutors office to cut the first deal. because the person who comes in first gets the best deal from prosecutors. but that is getting ahead. i m particularly surprised by the murder charge. for the driver of the wag wagon. yes. because that is intentional harm inflicted on someone and i think it is a real challenge in the absence of some sort of admission, where he said something to someone to make a charge like that stick. but when you think about what it was like for freddie gray to be trussed up like that and to be bouncing around with his head exposed, it is a horrific horrific thing. and if it was done in a criminal way, these charges are going to
indicated he could not breathe. the officer porter asked mr. gray if he needed a medic and mr. gray indicated at least twice that he was in need of a medic. reporter: mosby said they did not call a medic and failed to seat belt gray. the van s driver decided to move on. at the fourth stop they picked up donte allen who was put on the other side of the metal partition. the only thing i heard was banging. i tho was banging his head or something. mosby said he was again neglected. porter and white observed him unresponsive on the floor of the wagon. but 25 minutes later when they received the police station that a medic was called. at that point he was in cardiac arrest and not breathing. the medical skaum inner decided
it was a homicide. he was handcuffed and shackled by his feet and unrestrained inside of the bpd wagon. all six officers are facing criminal charges including assault and misconduct and the van driver is carrying a charge that could carry a sentence of up to 30 years. and some of the officers say this was a rush to judgment and will fight. and all six officers have posted bond. and there is a lot to talk about. sunny hostin and a former prosecutor and friend of the mayor, stephanie raulins blake. and harry houck. and jeffrey toobin.
as you just heard the prosecutor in charge of that case making the announcement yesterday morning. that gray s death was a homicide. the medical exampler has determined he died from fatal spine injuries after he was arrested. mr. gray suffered a severe and critical neck injury as a result of being hand curved shackled by his feet and unrestrained underof the bpd wagon. mosby says freddie gray should never have been arrested in the first place. he was accused of carrying an illegal switch blade. the prosecutor said it was a legal knife for him to be carrying and gray was arrested under false pretenses. the six officers seen in these mug shots, all of them acoused of assault and misconduct and four charged with involuntary manslaughter. three with false imprisonment. facing the most serious charges,
did the officers not fail to get him help but they made a grave mistake of putting him into the police van. at no point was he secured while in the wagon, contrary to a bpd order. and while the exact route was unknown, it made the first stop here where officers took him out of the van to put shackles on his legs and flex cuffs on his wrists. the officers loaded him back into the wagon, placing him on his stomach head first on the to the floor of the wagon. once again he was not secured by his seat belt into the wagon. reporter: the officer driving the van made another stop here. despite stopping for the purpose of checking on mr. gray s condition, at no point did he seek nor did he render any medical assistance for mr. gray. reporter: several blocks later he stopped for a third time and three other officers arrived to check on mr. gray. mr. gray asked for help and