reporters on the story two months before they came, we had a huge investigative series done on excessive force and violence by the police and the fines the city is paying. don t say the media the sun, was on the story. amy said the media. we identified what i was talking about. please, take the part of media you want to be critical of . okay, okay, i play 9 clip of your mayor, mayor rawlings-blake saying we need to give space to those who wish to destroy and claiming she was mischaracterized. are people playing their own words? a week before it blew up i wrote a story saying our mayor has a problem when she speaks to the press of not being clear and her spokesman has to clean it up. we predicted what was going to happen and she did it. she did it this. this wasn t just reaction. she said that.
a lot of people, conservatives have pointed out that baltimore has not had a republican mayor in 50 years. is it unfair to say that the liberal policies have filled the city of baltimore? no, it is an uneven video. for example our schools prior to the freddie gray incident mayor rawlings-blake was prevailing to release money for school funding. when you have schools operating in 20th century and we are trying to prepare our children for the 21st century those children know they are not being educated in 9 right kind of way. that is a baseline for how we have to revitalize communities so we are not investing in economic development only in the areas where we get tax abatement but in other areas of the community. our small businesses, our education system. job retraining. congressman, it is not a
reality, depth of it? reporter: yeah, i don t think we ve had that directly from either side. definitely there seemed to be implied criticism of mayor rawlings-blake from the governor when he said he felt she waited a long time, and they were glad when she finally reached out for help. when you talk to people as we have in this pest baltimore neighborhood, people felt the mayor didn t know what to do. whereas the governor has been proactive. yesterday over at penn and north, where we ve been all week the governor s office was out there giving out sandwiches and water. i know rawlings-blake has partnered with churches ads as the governor has. visibility is gaining political currency for people. congressman cummings i think principally and katherine pugh, state senate leader, have been extremely visible. that has been a stark contrast. i can tell you the night before last people were chanting where is the mayor, as they were talking with and interacting
jury. the prosecutor and states attorney mosby has been looking at the case for a week. she received the finding of homicide. she acted. again, it is a probably cause finding. it is the going of a process. there has been no judgment made. i is a long process between now and a charge, charges being filed and a criminal proceeding going forward. let s talk about the baltimore police. a baltimore sun investigation found over the last four years more than 100 people won $5.7 million in court judgments and settlements in police brutality claims. is there a problem with the baltimore police. i think that the mayor rawlings-blake has recognized that there were issues long before this incident. she has asked me the department of justice to look at their policing practices and that will
us to them. reporter: this maybe the popular image of a powerful woman in baltimore, but the real battle for peace, justice and civil rights is being becamed by these women. if with the nation watching three black women at three different levels can t get justice and healing for this community, you tell me where we are gonna get it. reporter: that s right the mayor, the state s attorney and the head of maryland s military are all black women. i love this city and i know we can be better than what we have seen. reporter: perhaps the face of baltimore politics stephanie rawlings-blake is the city s mayor. a former public defender rawlings-blake walked away with nearly 90% of the general vote in 2011 to win her first full term. a baltimore native she was first elected to the city council when she was just 25 years old. the youngest person ever to be elected to the baltimore city council. a graduate of overland college and the university of maryland school of law, the 45-year-old