Mindlessly and if you think its ok to say. To think that this type of violence behavior is ok that just demonstrates the culture that we live in. Reporter now School Officials told me today that some members of that Club Rugby Team said that many were not at this event that happened. But they said this was a team all 47 members, signed that code of conduct. And so the team had to go through this together. Reporting live brianne carter, abc 7 news. Leon thanks, brianne. This controversy at the university of Mary Washington didnt happen in a vacuum. It follows high profile fra ternlt scandals across the nation in recent weeks. At least three fraternities have been suspended or outright disbanded because of actions or comments made towards women and minorities. Alison . Alison leon we have an update tonight on that bloody arrest of a university of virginia student right outside of charlottesville bar. The universitys board of visitors is applauding Governor Terry mcauliffes decision to or
Very intense thunderstorm now over western sections of Charles County continuing to move towards the northeast towards the southern sections of our viewing area of the metro area over the next hour or so. Join you with more details on that cell and others in the studio in a few minutes. Leon ok doug. We got it. We turn to a developing story. Protesters have been taken to the streets after a man died over the weekend. Freddie gray passed a week after he was arrested by Baltimore Police breaking his back in the process. Maryland bureau chief brad bell in baltimore tonight where a News Conference just wrapped up. Whats the latest . What did you hear . Brad leon the Baltimore Police commissioner says this is a town on edge. The mayor says shes angry to have to be answering these questions dealing with the death of a young africanamerican man. As you said freddie gray arrested april 12th. He died yesterday. Today, authorities are saying his autopsy showed he died as a result of spinal cord
Assistance. Someone could now say as a victim, im not going to report. Look at the firestorm this false reporting created. Reporter he cites statistics that only 3 of rapists go to jail. And more than half of all rapes are never reported to police. Mostly because victims are afraid of not being believed. And the massive fallout to this Rolling Stone article could convince more victims to stay quiet. As a society, we dont believe victims whoever they are. We simply do not believe them. If we did the reporting would be more and the conviction rate would be higher. Reporter in the review columbia mentioned how u. V. A. Handled reports of repeated allegedly sexual acts from the same person. State guidelines say the school should have taken action or issued a Public Safety warning which it did not. Chris papst, abc 7 news. Alison as for the fallout at Rolling Stone the magazine said no one will lose their job. The reports author apologized saying she will not repeat the mistakes made in the
Leon Horace Holmes is live in southeast washington where fans are streaming into the park. Rather slowly if you want to call that line a stream horace. Horace absolutely. Its a little slower because of the security that you have to go through, metal detectors. You know, theyve already sung the National Anthem and a young man threw out the ceremonial first pitch and guess what, it was a perfect strike. So the crowd went crazy. You can see the line here. Its a big crowd still filing into the stadium right now. And theyve been here all morning and all afternoon long waiting for this trying to get the taste of last years bitter defeat in the National League championship game in san francisco. Out of their mouths. Everybody is very hyped for this season right now. We ran into the first people very first people in line. They got there around 8 00 this morning and the gentleman who was number one in line that we talked to didnt want his face to be seen. Didnt want us to tell his name because,