militarized police departments and opp eds from rand paul and others saying what s going on? local police departments are armed to the t. now this case with freddie gray. you make eye contact and that results in a chain of events that leads to your death. or you re holding in his case a weapon a knife that was not illegal. this is when a majority of households have a gun in them. when you talk about violence or protecting yourself. this individual we know baltimore can be dangerous. he s got a kind of weapon according to the prosecutor is not illegal. he s got interaction that has no criminal content. yet he is not only taken, he is arrested according to the prosecutor illegally and then put into conditions. this we know. this is uncontested. put into conditions that led him to be killed.
leveled against all six of the officers and whether or not legally they ll be able to meet that bar when they take the case further down the line but as we look at the charges, we can understand and start to evaluate from a legal perspective exactly what they were considering in the state s attorneys office based on the police investigation and independent investigation, but the reaction tamron from at least this part in west baltimore, for these residents, these neighbors that have been out and paying very close attention to this story, i think there is a sense that they are happy with the fact that the state s attorney s office sees there is merit for movement with the judicial charges. thomas roberts, fantastic job in your reporting there. we greatly appreciate it. we are going to take a quick break. we ll be right back with more of the breaking news of the day. six officers charged in the death of freddie gray. we ll have more reaction coming up here on news nation . shopping on
her integrate. he is expected to show up around city hall probably within the hour as more and more people who have been players in this drama that s been seen around the nowt to react to the news that charges are being if filed in the case. john, back to you. yeah. i have to say, there s nothing less than excitement here in many quarters that the process has played out this way. again, these six officers not convicted of anything but they will be charged and many people here in the city see that as the process working or as they would say, finally workingp. there is so much more to discuss including what will happen over the next several hours. school will be letting out soon. so many students part of the unrest on monday they will be getting this news for the first time and going home. what will happen then? we re going to speak to some people here who have been working with the community. so stay with us. jo
baltimore, they ve done nothing wrong, these charges vindicate a lot of what the young people are saying they are stopped for no reason and in some cases abused. we re not saying all police but certainly some. now for this prosecutor to bring about charges, i think, clearly we have to see where the case goes clearly we know charges does not mean the conviction, we saw that with trayvon martin but at least now we have a day in court, at least things are done. this, i think, is a very positive thing. i think it is a very necessary thing if the evidence was there, and i think that we ought to congratulate her for following the law and that we should not use it to say that all cops are bad and that the system does not work. it will if the system has the spotlight on it. so i think it is certainly not the end.
turn. and in turning they have. so when she announced this, you can imagine that all of us felt a sense of elation, but she gave no indication what was about to happen. is this proof to you that at least in this case,s to this system, that black lives do matter? well in actuality we ve all heard it said all lives matter. all lives have always mattered. for some reason the statistic prove in the walter scott case, eric garner case, so many other cases across the country, this is not the first, probably won t be the last but we know there s a sense of redress. what she also did was lay out some of the evidence here she has not all of it, wasn t going to give us all, but she made the case and explained why in this case she is filing charges. in actuality what she also did was cleared up a lot of speculation, a lot of misinformation. she actually laid out the criminality of what actually happened. she showed probable cause and then on top of that, she then proceeded to say, i ve is