the arrest was illegal, the knife was legal under maryland law and once they got him into the van, face down on his belly and he said he couldn t breathe, they wouldn t give him an inhaler, he pleaded for medical attention, didn t get it. she said again and again there was negligence every step of the way. so folks now, another woman walked by and said it s justice, we got justice. of course, you know this is just the beginning of a long process here but folks are already starting as word trickles out, folks are feeling like their hopes have been answered in some degree. all right. let me bring ari back into this. i ve got more from the police union. trymaine, if you could stand there, as well. the union is now saying they asked marilyn mosby to have a special independent prosecutor but after announcing the charges today, she said she would not turn the case over to a special prosecutor. the union has an attorney who says 5 of the 6 officers gave voluntary statements on the day of gr
ask your question one more time, please. can you talk about the resources i can tell you, as i stated we have a number of investigators, you can see it s been an all hands on approach from the very beginning, so i sent my investigators out to the scene, we have a number of them right here. we have working collaboration and working with the baltimore sheriff s department who has police powers and again independent from the baltimore city police department, so yes, we have leveraged the police investigation, but at no point did we compromise our own independent investigation into this case. we re taking a few more questions and that s it. change the rights police have right now, where they have the ten days to not talk to anybody, something the community has wrote up? i can t give you my opinion on that. last question. you would have to ask commissioner. have you spoken to her?
the city tonight. let me get your reaction to the developments in this case that six officers have now been charged. munir? let us work out this audio issue, but let me go to michael skolnick. you ve been on the show many times discussing various cases around the country where there have been in some of these cases no charges, no indictments, now here you are with six officers now being charged, and according to the state responsible for the death of freddie gray. what is your reaction? i think, tamron if i could have a moment to uplift the young people around this country, to see attorney mosby talk about as she said young people now is our time she heard the calls from no justice, no peace from the three incredible women who started black lives matter patrice,
according to this information, these injuries happened in that van. that s what it looks like. according to this prosecutor s theory, whatever injuries he had, the lethal injuries injuries that led to his death, legally what are significant for a murder charge occurred in the van. he may have been hurting and it was exasperated. i spoke to a former head of a major police department this week who didn t want to take a position on this case but said on background you do see a lot of people fake injuries because they don t want to go in but watching the video, this is the view of someone who ran a major city police department, they said it didn t look like he was faking going into that van. it looked like he d already been hurt. now we have this prosecutor saying however hurt he was going in, the injuries that led to his death were sustained inside that ride. let me bring in michael skolnick, president of global grind and the president and founder of the 300 men march movement. the gr
we re focused on what happened here today, which is police brutality. in the moments before those announcements were made there was a tense atmosphere because everyone is looking to see whether or not this is going to reverberate across the nation. the people thought they had a case, the people did have a case. when she came out and made that announcement, you could have seen it like a tidal wave ripple across not only the faces of those folks the journalists and the correspondents, but those of us standing with her, those of us she asked to pray before she went out. a sense that what i m about to deliver is not only going to be groundbreaking, but it is going to send a message to the people that we have heard you and she said that. and she reiterated that. i would say to all of the factions across the country, all the different organizations, each and every person who thought they had a voice in this matter, you were heard. so even though protests still go on, even though we see the w